tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-617426134849640048.post9032325361996075821..comments2023-11-03T07:36:08.643-04:00Comments on The View From Here: trouble in the waterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-617426134849640048.post-11565388096388192532008-09-13T15:35:00.000-04:002008-09-13T15:35:00.000-04:00@ LH, I hear you but I think my point is that for ...@ LH, I hear you but I think my point is that for people who live in areas where hurricanes are a way of life, be it Cuba, the Florida Keys, or NOLA, dealing with mother nature is there reality and if they have to evacuate and re-build one hundred times they will. <BR/><BR/>@i.l.l., welcome and thanks for de-lurking. amen sista amen! sorry to hear about your grandmother's home. i pray ya'll will be able to re-build.<BR/><BR/>@sevesteen, it's part of living in America, we each contribute to the good of the nation. my taxes go to rebuild damaged highways in michigan the same way it goes to rebuilding levees in nola to rebuilding homes in california.mint julephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13349981957329018092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-617426134849640048.post-24151939949059188382008-09-11T01:08:00.000-04:002008-09-11T01:08:00.000-04:00It is certainly possible to rebuild New Orleans. I...It is certainly possible to rebuild New Orleans. It would be possible to rebuild Detroit. Can I get my share of the rebuilding? Lots we can rebuild, but we can't do everything--What are the priorities? Why should I pay, because some people want to live below sea level?Sevesteenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439626386416115766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-617426134849640048.post-78305467618714690012008-09-06T19:00:00.000-04:002008-09-06T19:00:00.000-04:00Mint Julep,fellow New Orleanian (sort of: West Ban...Mint Julep,<BR/><BR/>fellow New Orleanian (sort of: West Bank girl, but a Prepper) and general lurker.<BR/><BR/>The thing that bugs me most about the question of whether or not New Orleans should be rebuilt is that it is by no stretch of the imagination the only American city to constantly deal with natural disasters. No one has ever asked "why rebuild south Florida." No one has ever asked 1.) why we should feel such sympathy for millionaires losing their million-dollar homes to California wildfires...again or 2.) "why continue to build homes in southern California."<BR/><BR/>I'm not a conspiracy-theorist or race baiter or anything like that, but why does this question come up so frequently about a 2/3 black city and not anywhere else? New Orleans will always be vulnerable to hurricanes. Period. But we can rebuild, with a stronger levee system and better evacuation plans.<BR/><BR/>We lost my grandmother's house after Hurricane Gustav, and that was in Vacherie (St. James Parish, if you don't know.) Nothing hurts like not being able to go home. The world seems to understand that for everyone (including Suzanne Sommers and Ed McMahon) but us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-617426134849640048.post-26467081752316176992008-09-04T11:51:00.000-04:002008-09-04T11:51:00.000-04:0080 per cent of New Orleans was under water in the ...80 per cent of New Orleans was under water in the wake of Katrina and to this day there are people who are unaccounted for. More, the city's population isn't quite 2/3 what it was prior to the hurricane. <BR/><BR/>If that doesn't describe being all but destroyed, I don't know what would. <BR/><BR/>"People's connection to a place is more, in my estimation, than mere sentiment."<BR/><BR/>If a hurricane or other natural disaster destroys one's home, that's reality. It isn't as though New Orleans is a stranger to hurricanes. If not sentiment, what else would explain why a person would not only stay in harm's way, but do so defiantly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com