Nationwide Implications Of NOLA Disaster

[akarnitz]

http://deltafarmpress.com/news/090205katrina-affect/


Ripple effect from Katrina could affect harvest

Sep 2, 2005 12:04 PM

“We’re struggling with economics. The (people of New Orleans) are struggling with life and death.”

By Elton Robinson
The Port of New Orleans and the Mississippi River are open to barge traffic, according to a spokesman with the U.S. Coast Guard. But the port itself will remain inoperable until power is restored and operators allowed to return.

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The loss of the port could have a significant ripple effect on the U.S. harvest of corn and soybeans, according to grain elevator operators up and down the river. U.S. agriculture has neither the storage capacity to wait out a bottleneck, nor a good alternate route to ship commodities.

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He said if the port remains closed as the Midwest harvest approaches, “I don’t know if there is a satisfactory backup plan. There’s no railroad to speak of in this part of the world. I doubt there are enough trucks around to really make an impact on moving the rest of the harvest somewhere else.
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After getting those folks out of NOLA, ASAP, rebuilding the city is a national priority. This is why. We will ALL be affected by rising prices at the grocery store. We may be hit with food shortages. Denny Hastert be damned, New Orleans must be rebuilt. Just stronger and safer.

[HereSince1628]

1. Question...WHO will work it?

I assume that the fourth largest port in the world employed people a lot of people who no longer have homes and who are now dispersed throughout the nation.

[rzemanfl]

2. Absolutely, the cruise ships are for the refinery and port workers.

They will get hardship pay and be told to leave their families elsewhere.

On edit: My opinion.

[HereSince1628]

4. I just found that the news says they will go to Galveston and Mobile.

and edited that questin out...

Which leaves the question about how workers willl be housed...I think that they may just rethink the position of one or more of those cruise ships. But maybe they are expecting the private sector owning the port facilities to deal with that.

[pretzel4gore]

3. what a bushmess!

20 years from now even rightwingers will be cursing anyone who voted for bush.

[akarnitz]

6. Good question

wish I could give a good answer. I've been thinking(and posting) about this subject for a few days now. I'm having a hard time finding much out there pertaining to this subject. MSM is focusing on the politics of the whole ordeal, as are most of us(I'll include myself).

My first guess at who'd work the wharves is the Coast Guard or the Navy. eventually there'd be temp housing fo civilian workers. But I'm blue-skying here.

I'm just looking for more input. Hope someone can help. :)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. The inaction regarding the levees, the cutting of funding to repair

them, the slow response for the victims has threatened the security of this country and someone should be held accountable. If terrorists can be blown out of their homes with missiles for thinking about doing bad things.... someone somewhere should at the very least lose his job so that he cannot harm this nation any more.