30-08-2005 23:55									#1
	Should I go to New Orleans and do contracting work for a few months? Remove this text

I'm not as young as once I was and it might kick my ass, but that's been kicked before and hey...maybe $50 an hour? $100? There's a huge casino boat that got blown onto land...the owners say $50,000,000 in damage. I'm thinking they would be willing to pay big.

Waddaya think?

	30-08-2005 23:58									#2
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I'll go with ya.

	31-08-2005 00:01									#3
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Worthless no-good carpetbaggers

Oh wait, I'm a northerner. Carpetbaggers

	31-08-2005 00:01									#4
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Sounds like a plan. Got any skills?

	31-08-2005 00:02									#5
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I can repair webpages that were damaged by the storm.

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"Oh wait, I'm a northerner. Carpetbaggers "

	31-08-2005 00:05									#7
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I can collect a consultant's fee.

"Yup, you shouldn't have done that."

	31-08-2005 00:05									#8
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara I can repair webpages that were damaged by the storm.

They're saying no power for 2 months.

I'd have to bring a generator...a bud of mine has one...I wonder if my truck could make it to New Orleans one more time? I'd have to see if my airguns still work.

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Carpetbaggers

	31-08-2005 01:03									#10
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It wont be possible to go to New Orleans anytime soon, but you could start with say Mobile, then head on to Biloxi.

	31-08-2005 01:28									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Lancer They're saying no power for 2 months. I'd have to bring a generator...a bud of mine has one...I wonder if my truck could make it to New Orleans one more time? I'd have to see if my airguns still work.

i'll do the auction for your generator

	31-08-2005 01:29									#12
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We should send in Haliburton.

	31-08-2005 01:37									#13
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Dis, you could handle it I'm sure, wanna go?

	31-08-2005 01:45									#14
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I don't think my employer would like me abandoning them.

I would go if bourbon street was functional. But it's not .

	31-08-2005 02:50									#15
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Is the port of New Orleans closed? How long before full operations will be restored?

	31-08-2005 03:03									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Dr Strangelove Is the port of New Orleans closed? How long before full operations will be restored?

nobody even knows when the levee breach will be repaired, and the flood waters will stop rising. And then its gonna be awhile till the waters are pumped, and the roads are reopened (and many will need repairs)


For now traffic will shift from river to rail, and from NoLa to all other ports. This will increase costs, both cause the existing routings over New Orleans was the cheapest (which is why it was chosen) and cause the shift will press capacity on the rail lines and at ports.

I would be particularly worried about rail car shortages for moving grain. I would suggest one will see an increase in world grain prices. Good news for the EU, Argentina, Brazil. Bad news for a lot of other people. There will be deaths due to the hurricane outside North America.

	31-08-2005 03:07									#17
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"U.S. grain exports from the Gulf of Mexico were paralyzed. Barges laden with corn, soybeans and wheat were stranded on the lower reaches of the Mississippi River since Saturday.

Chicago Board of Trade soybeans were strong after agronomists said late Monday that the wind and rain left over from Katrina could damage Midwest crops, with the moisture doing little to improve yields."

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A couple of friends of mine did that for a few months after Andrew. They made a lot of friends and $$$

	31-08-2005 03:37									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Dis We should send in Haliburton.

Well, there IS oil in the area...

	31-08-2005 05:47									#20
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I would like to go there and volunteer. Does anyone know how to get involved as a volunteer down there?