Re: S-CRY-ed in the Bayou

On Sun, Sep 4, 2005, 3:19pm (EDT+4), robotchikan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(The Eternal Lost Lurker) wrote:
>"Chris Sobieniak" <chrismichael@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
>in message
>>Yep people lived near it.
>Well, it wasn't a deathtrap until the levee broke. :P

Pretty much.

>>At times like these, it's rather surprising the
>>government just doesn't mandate or force people
>>to live in so-called "safeheavens"
>Gee, I dunno. Being told by the government where
>to live? Isn't that sort of...Communist?

Yeah, I guess I was going a little overboard there.

>>    Amazing they don't just call New
>>Orleans a ghost town and force everyone into
>>another city or such (Toledo needs a few hundred
>>thoustand more).
>You seem to be under the impression that the
>government has a lot more power than it actually
>does. "Force" everyone to pack up and live
>somewhere else? Bitch please. Granted, a lot of
>people who lost their homes and livelihoods to
>Katrina are probably going to pull up stakes and
>start over elsewhere. But for a lot of those people,
>asking them to leave even WITH the horrific
>hurricane damage...it's just too much to expect of
>them. It's all they've ever known, and all they ever
>WILL know, and all they have left to them is to
>rebuild.

I guess. Sorry again for getting the wrong impression. Though I find
it amusing hearing of the insurance companies that won't deal with those
parts of the country anyway (can't remember where I heard that).

>New Orleans will be rebuilt. It won't ever be the
>same again, and it'll take a very long time, but it
>WILL be rebuilt. In exactly the same spot. Right on
>top of the bodies if necessary.

As long as they still have Mardi Gras I'm OK (Toledo tried to do
something like that one year I've read).

>>Hardly pay much attention to the news, but it's
>>kinda glad to live in a valley like where I am.
>Oh, yeah, because valleys never flood or anything.
>
>Oh wait...

Worst we get are tornados, and even then it's not that serious as long
as you're not in the path.

>From the Master of Car-too-nal Knowledge...
Christopher M. Sobieniak @ Studio Toledo

http://studio-toledo.blogspot.com/
http://studio-toledo.deviantart.com/

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