Move over Louisiana...heres Washington state

[Sigarms]

Perhaps not PC correct, but I'd guess it's not that big in the N.W because there isn't a large city with a minority population with low income that has been affected.

Point being that when flood waters hit the south, the only thing anyone ever really heard about was New Orleans.

 

[tallyho8]

Perhaps not PC correct, but I'd guess it's not that big in the N.W because there isn't a large city with a minority population with low income that has been affected. Point being that when flood waters hit the south, the only thing anyone ever really heard about was New Orleans.

The REAL reason you heard so much about the New Orleans area is because 100,000 homes were under water for over a month with some neighborhoods losing their utilities for over a year. There has never been this large a disaster in America before.

It is a real tragedy when an area has 100 homes flooded. Now multiply that by one thousand times and you see the enormity of the flooding in the New Orleans area.

 

[Sigarms]

The REAL reason you heard so much about the New Orleans area is because 100,000 homes were under water for over a month with some neighborhoods losing their utilities for over a year. There has never been this large a disaster in America before.

It is a real tragedy when an area has 100 homes flooded. Now multiply that by one thousand times and you see the enormity of the flooding in the New Orleans area.

I guess when you build a city off the cost, BELOW sea level, that could happen.

What ever happened to the mayor of New Orleans lawsuit agasint the federal goverment for like a billion dollars?

 

[tallyho8]

I guess when you build a city off the cost, BELOW sea level, that could happen. What ever happened to the mayor of New Orleans lawsuit agasint the federal goverment for like a billion dollars?

Please remember that when New Orleans was built, it was 80 miles from the coastline and well above sea level. The coastline has eroded where New Orleans is now only 40 miles from the coast and many parts of New Orleans that were above sea level when built have sunk due to subsidence and are now below sea level. Everyone knows the eroding coastline is due to the Federal gov't building the levee system south of New Orleans and channeling the land-building silt from the Mississippi away from Louisiana and out into the deep waters of the gulf.

I have not heard about the mayor's lawsuit, if any, but unfortunately, a billion dollars would not even start to pay for the damages from Katrina. (The area suffered over a billion dollars in losses just from looting. Yes, you're right. It isn't only nice people who live there.)

But remember, flooding doesn't affect just people who live below sea level. It occurs in many mountainous regions also and none of its victims "deserves it"

 

[Sigarms]

Please remember that when New Orleans was built, it was 80 miles from the coastline and well above sea level. The coastline has eroded where New Orleans is now only 40 miles from the coast and many parts of New Orleans that were above sea level when built have sunk due to subsidence and are now below sea level. Everyone knows the eroding coastline is due to the Federal gov't building the levee system south of New Orleans and channeling the land-building silt from the Mississippi away from Louisiana and out into the deep waters of the gulf.

I have not heard about the mayor's lawsuit, if any, but unfortunately, a billion dollars would not even start to pay for the damages from Katrina. (The area suffered over a billion dollars in losses just from looting. Yes, you're right. It isn't only nice people who live there.)

But remember, flooding doesn't affect just people who live below sea level. It occurs in many mountainous regions also and none of its victims "deserves it"

Apolgies, I realize I may come across "harsh", not my intentions.

From what I found, looks like the mayors lawsuit was for 77 billion dollars.

FOXNews.com - Mayor Nagin: We 'Piled It on' in Suit Against Army Corp of Engineers - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum

Guess after I donated money to the good people of the state that needed it, I'm got a little peeved that the mayor is now suing sp? (or was at the time).

 

[tallyho8]

Guess after I donated money to the good people of the state that needed it, I'm got a little peeved that the mayor is now suing sp? (or was at the time).

That's easy to understand. There were so many thousands of generous people throughout America making donations to help out the victims of this disaster who were more than a little upset when they saw the news coverage of some of the greedy people who received their benefits. There have been reports of many people who had various charities pay for their damages and then they made a SBA "loan" to cover their damages that did not have to be repaid and then they had the Road Home program reimburse them for all their damages and now that they have been paid 3 times for the same damages they are suing to keep the SBA from making them now repay their loans since they recouped all their damages in other ways.

What really upset me is that the people who had no insurance at all received much more than the people who were insured. Maybe that won't bother me as much next time because now I am one of the uninsured since almost all of the insurance companies cancelled their policies in our area.

 

[Sigarms]

That's easy to understand. There were so many thousands of generous people throughout America making donations to help out the victims of this disaster who were more than a little upset when they saw the news coverage of some of the greedy people who received their benefits.

I guess you just expressed it better than I could.

Sometimes I don't even know why we are required to have insurance. My wife, right before we got married had an "odd ball" fender bender that gave her a hairline crack in the transmission, so they ended up scrapping the car (less than a year old). Because it was my wifes fault (technically, long story but she ended up on the short end of the stick for being honest, seriously) they wanted to TRIPLE her car insurance after that.

This was after she had driven for 18 plus years without so much a speeding ticket before an accident (and paying her premiums in full for the same amount of time).

Sometimes I think we would all be better off if organized crime ran insurance companies. Figure it couldn't get any worse.

Sincerely sorry to hear about your situation. Ever notice that sometimes it's the guy who's honest and wants to do the "right thing" who ends up on the short end of the stick?

 

[tallyho8]

Sometimes I think we would all be better off if organized crime ran insurance companies. Figure it couldn't get any worse.

You mean they don't????

 

[dbdartman]

You mean they don't????

No, they don't, but they DID write the business model for the industry!