Originally posted by STRYPED BS:

New Orleans is a horse with a broken leg now, should we let the horse keep working with the broken leg, with poor efficiency and questionable reliabilty with a possiblilty of it falling and breaking another? Or do we shoot it and move on.



The problem I saw with N.O. was a lot of little things gone wrong to make it into a disaster. If any one of them were taken care of to begin with we wouldn't be in the situation we are now.

1) If the levees had been able to withstand a CAT5 hurricane I doubt the city would have flooded.
2) If the town had been raised when it was built (like Chicago after the fire) I don't think it would have flooded.
3) If FEMA acted as it should have, like with every other natural disaster, could more people been evacuated before and afterthe storm?
4)If all the political red tape could have been circumvented would relief been there sooner?

But the idea of moving on after the city was almost wiped out is rediculous. Lets not forget that N.O. sits at the mouth of the Mississippi River so its not like we can just ignore a city underwater.




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