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Prifysgol Caerdydd
Dec 1999
time: 15:37
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It may be a different place and may take years - but it will recover!
I also suggest that from an outsider's POV it might recover sooner than you think...
From a purely touristic POV the French Quarter survived almost intact and the Garden District is also mostly intact, although there is a large risk of fires getting out of control and destroying many buildings so its safety is not as assured...
Either way, as a tourist, chances are the only parts of NoLa you're ever likely to visit are those parts, in fact I was warned against setting foot outside of those areas due to the danger - even wandering too far up Canal St was deemed hazardous to your health when I was there a few years back!
Anyway, those areas could conceivably be up and running within weeks with water and waste services being the biggest potential headache.
I think if those districts could be opened again ASAP, that would be a huge morale boost to its refugees and a sign to the rest of the nation that there is life in NoLa yet...!
Also, seeing as hundreds of thousands of people have suddenly become unemployed overnight perhaps they could be employed in the huge public works effort of cleaning up their city to help them help themselves, earning a badly needed income and the self esteem of repairing their city...
It will be tough, but if the rest of the country rallies around NoLa by visiting the city when it reopens and showing your support, I foresee a positive future for 'The Big Easy'...
I for one intend to support NoLa by visiting it at my earliest opportunity - just like I did with NY, Bali and even the Red Sea after Taba!
laissez les bons temps rouler!(again)
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Kontiki
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Canada
Aug 2001
time: 00:37
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This NO shouldn't be rebuilt in the same location stuff is hilarious. It's not like you just throw together a city like that overnight. There's way too much infrastructure still intact (along with the stuff that will obviously need to be repaired/replaced) to just walk away from it and go "oh well, let's start the whole thing over again somewhere else".
It will undoubtably be a changed city. It will also undoubtably remain exactly where it is.
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CerberusIV
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Until the next cat 4 or 5 hurricane. Maybe another 30 years, maybe next month.
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Sava
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GO GO GO!
Mar 2001
time: 23:37
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I'm going to stop trolling for a second a make a serious post.
I basically agree with what some of what Dennis Hastert said. 
The decision to rebuild New Orleans or the process of doing so should be done in a sensible way. The problem leading up to the hurricane was that there wasn't adequate precautions taken to protect the city. And really, you can't fault any single politician for that. It's not Mayor Nagin's fault. It's not Governor Blanco's fault. It's not Bush's fault. There were evacuation plans, but there wasn't the personel and they weren't trained properly and the resources weren't in place to execute it. Also, on the federal level, the levees were neglected. Not totally Bush's fault. But he does deserve some of the blame. He signs off on everything. And like I said before, he touted that massive pork-laiden highway bill and claimed we were improving our infrastructure, but that was a bunch of bullshit.
As for rebuilding, well, it's not just about the city itself. You need to look at the surrounding area. The whole area is overdeveloped which has left New Orleans vulnerable to flooding. There's swampland that has been drained that was vital. I think New Orleans is an important city, both economically and culturally (although I must admit, I somewhat fail to see the "culture" in drunken boob flashing, but whatever), but we shouldn't just be stubborn and say "WE MUST REBUILD UHHHHHHHHH".
You must be pragmatic about things. To just automatically say WE MUST REBUILD without objectively looking at the situation is stupid. People are caught up in the emotion of the whole tragedy and aren't thinking clearly. And it's absolutely ridiculous to be spending billions of dollars based upon knee-jerk jingoistic reactions to national tragedies.
Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Probably yes, in some fashion. But the experts need to look at things. And we need to be prepared for the next disaster.
edit: for grammar and stuff
Last edited by Sava on 08-09-2005 at 19:37
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