I wonder if the Astrodome will also be off limits.Police with bullhorns plan to go street to street this weekend with a tough message about getting out ahead of Hurricane Gustav: This time there will be no shelter of last resort. The doors to the Superdome will be locked. Those who stay will be on their own.
On a sympathetic note, I hope we get emergency water and supplies down there faster than last time.
It's looking slightly off to the West atm.
For the record, this is where I stood on things after Katrina:
Winnow wrote:There is an entire field dedicated to underwater archeology. I've seen some of the underwater ruins myself off the coast of Sardinia in the Med, diving down to check out old Roman and Phoenician ruins.****name removed**** (it was Sylvus but he might be on suicide watch after Michigan's perfomance yesterday so I don't want to stir things up!) wrote:It's about a place where a number of people have lived for hundreds of years that was recently struck by a natural disaster.
They're under water because...Earth's climate changes...it's not a static system. It's easy to see the rise and fall of the ocean levels over time. New Orleans is in a bad place that we know is getting worse. I don't buy saying it's OK to pour billions into trying to prevent mother nature's advances when it's crystal clear that New Orleans is one of the worse possible places to put a city...doesn't matter if it was a nice place a couple hundred years ago.
All of the money after Katrina should have been focused on relocation and providing a non residential area capable of handling the shipping needs of the area, designed to be able to handle a flood with minimal damage. Residential areas should have been banned in known sub sea level areas that are in known paths of hurricanes that should naturally be underwater.
If stuck in quicksand, you don't keep asking for a longer straw so you can keep breathing in a bad spot, you ask for a rope to pull yourself out.