Katrina
Posted on August 30th, 2005 by catalyst into the Uncategorized categoryIs anyone else as fascinated by this storm as me? I have been trying to do work all day, but instead keep refreshing www.wwltv.com instead. Katrina hits the region knocking out all power, destroys a couple of levee’s and now the city is slowly filling up with water. It looks like the worst case scenario is actually coming true.
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August 30th, 2005 at 10:38 am
Reporters are nuts. Not in a cool way, but in a “you’re an attention whore” type of nuts. That’s been more facinating to me then the storm itself.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:58 am
Well the reporters have to do something nuts to attract people to their talkfest coverage instead of the 2000 other networks and websites covering the Hurricane. One thing I will say is at least this is news worth covering unlike the 24 hour continuing coverage of the annual snow dusting of Portland every winter.
What confuses me about this whole thing is that people are shocked or surprised a coastal city built below sea level is a big swimming pool now that a big storm has hit it. I’m sorry if that sounds cruel, but this scenario was bound to happen eventually. It was just a matter of when the right storm found its way to them. Unfortunately for New Orleans, it’s an example of that whole “build your house (or city) on the sand” lesson.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:16 am
haha. Check this guy out (sorry for the crappy link)
http://rapidshare.de/files/4505694/CNN_-_Weather_Man_Loses_It__08-29-05___PiP_.mpg.mpg.html
August 30th, 2005 at 11:27 am
Nevermind this one’s better. Ignore (or delete) the first:
http://external.benlaw.net/CNN_daybreak2.wmv
August 30th, 2005 at 12:54 pm
Brian: Did that guy just throw a tantrum? He looked like a 2 year old. Good Link.
Fezzik: I agree. The question is do you rebuild the city at all? Or do you start from scratch somewhere else? The more water that enters the city the less salvageable the buildings become.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:47 pm
Ideally they probably should move most/all of the city somewhere else, but that’s not realistic. Who pays for all the costs involved in moving the entire city and relocating all the people? Even if some level of government agreed to do that, they’d be accepting blame for the bad city planning and leave themselves wide open for lawsuits on top of the massive costs of moving everybody and everything. They’ll probably rebuild what they can and turn the rest into a fishing pond or something.
August 30th, 2005 at 4:25 pm
After being to the city about a year ago it’s weird to think that the city that I visited no longer exists as it did. Though it did smell like urine and beer barf, it was an interesting place to be for a while. It’s unfortunate that this happened but I agree with fezzik that a city below sea level should expect something like that and have some contingencies. I’m sure there were some but obviously they didn’t think this big! Well it’s too bad for the homeowners to lose all of their irreplaceable belongings. As a person who lives on the ocean (not literally) it is always a thought that since our house is only a few hundred feet from the ocean what would happen if…..scary to think about.
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