If Gustav Hits New Orleans Directly, Do You Think That They Should Receive?

Question

By that, should we abandon the entire state of Florida? Of course not.

Answer 1

When you live in a soup bowel you take the chance of losing everything.

On LI NY we have Dune road, every few years it gets washed away and tax dollars rebuild it.

I think if you cannot get insurance for it it should not be built.

Answer 2

I'm not an expert... but shouldn't they just rebuild a levy that won't break?

Not rebuilding is not an option... if that was your home (and it maybe), you would want it back regardless.

Answer 3

if there is another devestating storm they need to classify that as a uninhabitable place to live because if they are stubborn enough to stay time and time again why in the h**l should we help arogance now im not saying let them burn i just think it needs to be classified as uninhabital and yes the government has a better plan to help but deaths should not be blamed on th government they should be blamed on the people they knew the risk of staying so they accept it but yes the goverment needs to have better response times as i write this evacs by government has started 24 hours ago

Answer 4

In the words of Sam Kinison, send 'em U-hauls.  If they're living below sea level, it's going to happen sooner or later, why do these people insist on tempting fate?

Answer 5

of course it is our place as Americans to help those in need. As far as rebuilding well it is a free country and if someone wants to rebuild then its their choice. My personal choice would be to not purchase a home which was not on land which has not flooded frequently through history, or raise my home quite high.

To those who say otherwise should we deny care to those who suffer illness due to smoking? And should we implement rules to stop people from over eating due to the ill affects? I could go on.

Answer 6

We did help the people hit by that tsunami, even though they haven't built a darn thing to save themselves.

New Orleans has always been below sea level, what changed for them, and many other towns along the Mississippi is the levee system which it seems makes flooding much worse now than when it was allowed to run naturally. Especially if you are downstream from one.

Since it wasn't Katrina that wrecked NO, but rather the flooding which caused a poorly built levee to break, and that levee was built by the government in such a way that it wouldn't withstand a category three storm because, as the Army Corps of Engineers put it, it would be too expensive, then yes, just as we rebuild for others on oceanfronts all over the coasts, we most certainly should cover natural disasters.

As to rebuilding, the older sections of NO did not have as big a problem since they were built on slightly higher ground, the lower ground is fairly recent, and built for the poorer elements by the well off hoping to be even more well off.  Maybe they shouldn't be built unless the owners are forced to carry insurance for the renters.  

Bet that stops it.

Of course, that would have to stand for those people who were flooded out this year in the midwest too, although the scope of that problem was one hundredth of the problem in NO, which is or was after all a city of a million people.

Or the people all along the coasts of Florida and Georgia.

You can't just pick out NO because it was damaged the worst, or has a large black population, we don't write our laws that way.

Answer 7

Gustav...is going to finish what Katrina didn't

lol

JUST KIDDING!!!

Answer 8

Cant take credit for this but cant remember who said it.......

we solve 3 problems at once..

dig along border with Mexico like 100 feet wide 30 feet deep..

use dirt to fill in all of New Orleans to bring it above sea level...

round up all the Gators that people complain about in Florida and throw into said ditch at border..

Answer 9

I really think new if gustav hits you are going to be hard pressed to find to many residents willing to rebuild this time.  

Answer 10

they ought to take responsibility for themselves for a change

Answer 11

Most the people from New Orleans probably won't want to rebuild twice in three years. If it does hit them, don't expect much rebuilding to occur...

Answer 12

Let the majority decide their life and future. 51% is a majority over 49% so rebuild is the answer. If the majority of American had decided to waste huge money in Iraq ---? Why not spend this rightful money to rebuild our homeland the America. It is a pity and a shame.

Answer 13

This is a living planet.  Did you know that the hugest earthquakes that ever happened in the country's history happened right in the center of the country along the New Madrid Fault?  2  9. quakes, about 260 years ago, and it will happen again.  You cannot just let your country die because of a political philosophy, if LA gets knocked down by a quake, or if St. Louis and Nashville do, or if Miami gets hit by a tidal wave, God forbid it all...the country requires that we rebuild.  You do not let your country die because of political philosophy, that would be insane.

Answer 14

The insurance rates will just keep going up, just like every other place on the coast.  The government shouldn't be touching residential homes at all.  

Answer 15

Depends if they behave good or not.  They might start looting again

Answer 16

I live in an area with lots of snow.  If there was an avalanche area, and I kept rebuilding there and my home kept getting destroyed, people would not be at all sympathetic.  They would say, duh, quit building your house where it's just going to get destroyed every few years.  I say the same not only to New Orleans, but also any beach area...Malibu included.  Your reward for building a home near the ocean is the gorgeous location.  Your cost is in the uncertainty and risk.

Answer 17

Expect them to get the same as bush gave them last time, next to nothing. This time he prolly won't even bother to show up. Don't forget, he has a war to lose.

Answer 18

the Mayor of the city of public go on vacation and blame somebody else for his mistakes and course playing the governor and everybody else for doing nothing .

Answer 19

Well seeing as how they didn't learn last time I would say no.  They have been building in the same flood planes.  Most of the city is below sea level and without levees it would be a lake.  There is no such thing as a flood proof levee.

I have no problem rebuilding the parts that are not in flood planes.

Answer 20

what a city it was.but man this is a tough call.personally the big easy blew billions and never really fixed anything.i see they have already began a evacuation plan.lets hope this works.i think any citizen of this country deserves help.but lets hope this time there isn't the rapes robbery and murder.

Answer 21

lol I thought this was a g*y reference alluding to John Hagee's comment about the g*y pride was the reason for Hurricane Katrina