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Old 08-30-2008, 08:26 PM  
Snake Doctor
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Originally Posted by Sly View Post
New Orleans is pretty much the gateway to the Midwest... anybody ever hear of the Mississippi River?

Will I feel sympathetic if people stay behind again and get killed? Probably not. Should we rebuild? Absolutely. But this time, let's do it right...
This I agree with. Especially since this time around my state has a governor with a brain....and they have buses waiting to take people out of the city who can't evacuate on their own.
There's no excuse this time for anyone to stay behind.

Last time things were a clusterfuck and poor people did fall through the cracks.
Not this time though.

As for rebuilding...I can't understand why they refuse to just build a levy system like the one they have in the Netherlands and just be done with it. They've wasted so many billions over the decades building a system designed for a category 3 storm....it's ridiculous.
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