Aid Collections For New Orleans and Rest Of Southeastern USA

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


Why do you think people aren't considering that? Of course they are. Some will leave, because they can't take it any more. Most will stay, because a psychological attachment to home is more important than the losses they sustained. But everyone will consider it. They may not come to decisions you would agree with, but their decisions will be considered ones.

I remember during the Mississippi flood of 1993, people who had f*ck-all to begin with, and lost even that, moved right back to the floodplain when the waters receded. Why? Because there families had lived on that land for generations. I've never had that kind of sentimental attachment to place, but I can't say that it's not a considered reason to act as they did.

I noticed the same thing when orders to just evucate are given ahead of hurricanes. A lot of people even when their lives are in danager dont want to leave. I never got that.

[SlowwHand]

Am I mistaken in the assumption that many, if not most, port cities are on the waterfront?
Or is this truly unique to New Orleans?

[Sava]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Am I mistaken in the assumption that many, if not most, port cities are on the waterfront?
Or is this truly unique to New Orleans?

uhmmm

unless we're talking about space ports here

port cities kinda need to be on waterfronts

[Imran Siddiqui]

Sava, I believe he was being sarcastic.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Am I mistaken in the assumption that many, if not most, port cities are on the waterfront?
Or is this truly unique to New Orleans?

You mean right on the ocean/sea instead of up river? I think NO is unusual in being up river, but I remember reading somewhere that there's a good reason for it.

Aha! From Wikipedia:

The site was selected because it was a rare bit of natural high ground along the flood-prone banks of the lower Mississippi, and was adjacent to a Native American trading route and portage between the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain via Bayou St. John (known to the natives as Bayou Choupique).

[Kuciwalker]

High ground

[Imran Siddiqui]

There is a reason they southern LA (for Sava: that stands for Louisiana, not Los Angeles ) the Bayou

[Sava]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Sava, I believe he was being sarcastic.

okay I can't tell if asher is driving 550 miles evrey damn day to work

how am i supposed to tell if tex here is not knowing wtf a waterfront is?!?!!?

[SlowwHand]

[Imran Siddiqui]

[Mrs. Tuberski]

cant argue with that

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by Berzerker
http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html

Well, just gave them a paycheck. Given that I'm a student, that's not exactly saying much, but my loans are coming in soon, so...

This is a nightmare.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Verto
Why should they? It's a relatively small natural disaster.

I don't know if you're joking or not , but this is a relatively small natural disaster .

[TheStinger]

I'd guess that european countries wouldn't offer money, but would offer techincal assitance, rescue teams etc if asked to do so. I'm not sure of any requests though.

IIRC India never asks for assistance due to some dort of national pride thing, I don't know if the US is the same.

[Atahualpa]

Also don't forget that parts of Europe have also been hit by a flood recently. Damages to the roads in one province of Austria amount to €100m, then there are some 1000 damaged buildings and several bridges. Some people died, but it was just 3 or 4 here (~30 in Romania).
Our government has a catastrophe fund which amounts to ~€30m.

Not that this would be anywhere near the dimension of New Orleans ofc...