Listen, I need to talk to someone who lives some place close to the mess down in new orl. I have seen show after show about it and from what I can tell there are still area' s that haven't been touched. Need to know if this is true. If it is, I need to know are they blocked off somehow. Can you still get to them?
I don't know. For years I've planned to head down to experience a hurricane but my wife goes ape shit. So, this might be the next best thing. To see the after math on a nice day.
Listen, I need to talk to someone who lives some place close to the mess down in new orl. I have seen show after show about it and from what I can tell there are still area' s that haven't been touched. Need to know if this is true. If it is, I need to know are they blocked off somehow. Can you still get to them?
Do you mean touched as in...not cleared up?
I was just in New Orleans for Jazzfest and drove down Canal street and the surrounding areas before going to the festival area. All those homes and abandoned cars have been marked as "looked through" and there are FEMA trailers in many places.
We didnt go to the other harder hit areas because I believe its still pretty dangerous.....not just from the natural damage. It was disturbing enough seeing the water level marks on all the houses we saw ....and then seeing the way the houses looked inside ...just shredded. I cant even imagine what the areas by the levees look like.
The Causeway is open .....so you can get there......
P.M. Cajun Cutie and see....there are a few officers in the Lousisiana area of O.com that are there cleaning up or in Baton Rouge and know more than I do.
-- Edited by Bread Styx at 09:46, 2006-05-12
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USofAcop wrote: WHY DO HAVE URGE TO TOUCH?? I don't know. For years I've planned to head down to experience a hurricane but my wife goes ape shit. So, this might be the next best thing. To see the after math on a nice day.
It does not matter how nice the day is....it's bad. Its totally different than seeing it in a book or on TV. When you see the Orange X's on the house and the water level marks....and the numbers by the X's indicating people found and how they were found.....its different. There were Oak trees that had to be hundreds of years old....huge gorgeous trees..ripped from the roots ....on houses, in streets......dog houses crushed.....playhouses in back yards, ruined.....The only sign of life in the area we went to were the Fema Trailers....Most houses could not be lived in. But..not in the whole city.....I mean you can go and stay at a hotel and eat out and do things there.....its just certain areas that still havent been cleared
-- Edited by Bread Styx at 10:00, 2006-05-12
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ummm, so it would still be worth seeing if you were tring to get an idea of how bad it was/is?
Yes, if you want to just get an idea ....have you ever been to New Olreans? If not, it will be easier to see places that are destroyed.
I was expecting the city to be totally crushed and had prepared myself. While we were on the Causeway, I saw the New Orleans skyline...and then the SuperDome still standing...I felt better.
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No, never been there. So if something is blocked off I wouldn't know how to get around it. So I was just wondering how they have all that set up down there if I go.
No, never been there. So if something is blocked off I wouldn't know how to get around it. So I was just wondering how they have all that set up down there if I go.
Read your pm and ask the cops from there in O.com...they know better than I do. I didnt go to any areas blocked off.
It looks like Sraight Up knows enough info.....
-- Edited by Bread Styx at 13:35, 2006-05-12
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