Random Thoughts about New Orleans
I have been to New Orleans twice. Once in 2000 for a wedding (which coincided with Mardi Gras), and once in 2003 at the start of a 7 day Caribbean Cruise to celebrate both of my parents turning 60.
It is a fantastically fun town, I only wish that I had gone when I was younger & more stupid about drinking so that I could have enjoyed it even more.
There is still two months left in hurricane season, what do you think the odds are that another hurricane hits them?
Per an article of Ron Fournier of the Associated Press. The Army Corps of Engineers asked for $105 million for hurricane & flood programs in New Orleans. This was cut to $42.2 million by the White House and Congress. Yet the legislators & White House approved a $286.4 billion highway bill that included 6000 projects such as dust control for an Arkansas highway, a warehouse on the Erie Canal, and a $231 million bridge to an uninhabited island in Alaska. Maybe they could dam the levees with the bridge?
Canadians who go to the Southern States in the winter are called "Snowbirds". What will they call all the Southerners who flock north every summer & fall to avoid the hurricanes?
Are the looters just exercising their second amendment rights?
The next time an evacuation order is given because of an impending hurricane, how many do you think will try to ride it out?
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The people who decided that that it was good enough to build a levee to survive a force 3 instead of anything higher are probably long since retired and/or dead. And until this point, people probably thought they had made the right choice.
Most governments will do the bare minimum the public lets them get away with.
As someone who lives below sea-level in an area that will have a massive earthquake sometime in the future, it certainly gives me an impetus to a) prepare emergency supplies and b) send a message to the politicians to ensure that everything that can be done to minimize the effects of the earthquake is done sooner rather than later.