NWS: "New Orleans will be UNIHABITABLE for weeks."

[Bluebear]

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_wwltv&props=livenoad

[opihimoimoi]

1. HOLY BAT SHIT....those poor peeps down there.....no food/water

and lost jobs.....damn.

[Bluebear]

2. "Toxic soup" in the water

Imagine the crap that will be unleashed in that water.

[KyndCulture]

3. I hate to be really really morbid here.

but having visited in N.O. many times, there are thousands of above ground graves there and crypts... can they withstand the force of this water.. speaking of toxic soup.

[opihimoimoi]

6. OMG corpses afloat??? damn...

[wli]

9. you didn't know about that? Well, it's true.

The graveyards pretty routinely get hit like that in New Orleans, though since the move to mausoleums and other more rigorous burial practices the risk of corpses getting unearthed by flooding has been reduced, but not eliminated.

[Bluebear]

10. NO cemetery....

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. This will the the WMD boy george was panting about..... with all

his rootin tootin cowboy antics....

[Straight Shooter]

4. We'll be digging into our pockets again to help those who are struggling.

It seems this year we are being called upon more often to help our brothers and sisters less fortunate. C'est la vie. Generosity is a virtue.

[ltfranklin]

5. The reconstruction will be immense!

I wonder how much fill soil it would take to rebuild New Orleans (if, god forbid, it is necessary) at a higher level, enough to keep it above any future surge.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. If the chemical industry is hammered as hard as it seems it will

be, it could be truly uninhabitable for much longer than that.