Good luck, stay safe, and I hope you all get to return home soon!

Fuck it, *Sings, Riding the storm out...*



Got Gas, Generator, Water and Ice... Staying Put Near the Beach.;)

Wait a tick, Did Satan just wish someone God Speed?

I'm in Houston and a lot of people are leaving, but we're sticking it out on campus. We've got the place all boarded up and lots of food and water stock piled.

good luck guys. be smart, be safe, and let us know you are o.k. as soon as you can.

I'm in Mobile, AL. The worst we're gonna get so far as forecasted is 60mph winds, so I don't have to evacuate, but I have a lot of friendsw from New Orleans whose families are evacuating. One of my friends' family lost their house in Katrina and they just recently got it fixed and 100% living condition. I'd really hate it if they got their newly built home destroyed again

I don't understand what motivates people to rebuild in New Orleans considering it is below sea level.

Randal, Randal, Randal... let's perpetuate myths shall we?

from Wikipedia: "A recent study by Tulane and Xavier University notes that 51% of New Orleans is at or above sea level, with the more densely populated areas generally on higher ground. The average elevation of the city is currently between one and two feet (0.5 m) below sea level, with some portions of the city as high as 16 feet (5 m) at the base of the river levee in Uptown and others as low as 10 feet (3 m) below sea level in the farthest reaches of Eastern New Orleans.


In 2005, storm surge from Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic failure of the federally designed and built levees, flooding 80% of the city. A report by the American Society of Civil Engineers says that "had the levees and floodwalls not failed and had the pump stations operated, nearly two-thirds of the deaths would not have occurred"."

In your logic, Los Angeles should be unpopulated because of earthquakes. Why would you rebuild somewhere when the earth itself could just shake it all down again? Why would those people flooded out in Iowa rebuild? Their shit could get wet again since they still depend on the same federal levees we do. Why would all those people stay in those Caribbean islands that get hit over and over again? Why do those in Western Asia stay where they repeatedly get slammed by typhoons? Fuck, in Randal-World, everyone needs to move... where? Where does nothing bad happen?

New Orleans is home. That's all your tiny fucking mind needs to know. Our lives, our families and friends, the places we know are there. I've been a lot of places in this world and none of them are home. Fuck you. I'm sitting here wondering if anything of mine will be left when this is over and you have to be an asshole. Fuck you.

Good luck to all in the path of this storm. Stay safe.

Don't be too hard on Randal. If one over looks the historical lose of New Orleans, factors in the high crime and poverty, it is easy to question the feasibility of rebuilding the city. However, the lose N.O. as a part of Americana out weighs everything else. From the Spanish to French to Louisiana Purchase, the city is an iconic part of American History and Culture.

N.O. is an old city in tradition and structure. Even today, inhabitants fight, not to modernize, but to rebuild and restore the city to it olden splendor.

I read what you wrote. I had no idea about the higher elevation of certain parts of the city. What happened there was a tragedy. The Red Cross refused to put a shelter in the city because of the below Sea Level that a lot of the city is in.

To an outsider, every community seems strange to rebuild. Earthquake torn California, Flood destroyed cities along the Mississippi and it's tributaries in Pennsylvania and Missouri, Cold ravaged Northeast, Tornado belt of the Midwest and the Hurricanes of the Southeastern and Gulf shore. Even Texas, with sun scorched lands. These are out homes. Homes of our families, of the American Indians before us and Immigrants, from which we came, after us.

We fought a war over 232 years ago, so we can have the freedoms to pick an choose where we want to live. We rebuild, because this is our home, our destiny, our community and our country. There is no better nation on the face of this earth. That's why we rebuild. Because We are Americans, Proud and Free. G-d Bless America.