French Quarter is toasted on its survival
French Quarter is toasted on its survival
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#0French Quarter is toasted on its survival
Posted: 8/30/05 at 3:10pm
It look like the French Quarter was spared the worst.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473502/posts
#1re: French Quarter is toasted on its survival
Posted: 8/30/05 at 3:22pmYAY! It's a miracle! After a day of tragic news, this comes as a silver lining.
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#2re: French Quarter is toasted on its survival
Posted: 8/30/05 at 3:28pmNo more - From reports that I've read, the quarter has started flooding. Last I heard 9" and more coming all the time.
#3re: French Quarter is toasted on its survival
Posted: 8/30/05 at 3:42pmWell there goes that silver lining. I hope the French Quarter survives this catastrophe.
BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner
HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
#4re: French Quarter is toasted on its survival
Posted: 8/30/05 at 3:56pm
Sadly, I think you should adjust the name of this thread. 80% of the city is submerged. Lives lost, homes destroyed, businesses ruined, memories only.
And what in heaven's name were you doing at FreeRepublic.com, Windy?
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#5re: French Quarter is toasted on its survival
Posted: 8/30/05 at 4:24pmLooks like I'm gonna cancel that Southern Decadence trip.
#6re: french quarter is toasted on its survival
Posted: 8/30/05 at 4:31pmwca, i think the toast is premature. water levels are rising and while it could certainly have been worse, until they find out for sure where all the water's coming from they have no chance of stopping it.
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...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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#7re: french quarter is toasted on its survival
Posted: 8/30/05 at 4:41pmAren't we used to water killing people yet?
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#8re: french quarter is toasted on its survival
Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:05pm
Right now there is conflicting information about the French Quarter.
Some locals are comunucating with each other via the internet at:
http://www.nola.com/forums/vieuxcarre/
#9re: french quarter is toasted on its survival
Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:12pm
Oy! The governor just ordered the evacuation of ALL of New Orleans... waters continue to rise. Everyone in the Superdome and other shelters (apparently tens of thousands) would have to be evacuated... this is getting worse by the minute.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9130254/
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brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#10re: french quarter is toasted on its survival
Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:26pmIt's good thing we have the troops near the Green Zone in case a hurricane strikes Baghdad.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: french quarter is toasted on its survival
Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:35pmDD, I read about that on IMDb... something about Lucy Lawless and the movie she's shooting. It took her nine hours to drive 60 miles. Wow.
#12La Tristesse du Quartier Francais
Posted: 8/30/05 at 7:46pm
This just breaks my heart. Snippet:
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French Quarter bears scars as Katrina pounds New Orleans
Mon Aug 29, 6:49 PM ET
NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) - Shattered glass, fallen brick walls, smashed up cars and trees ripped up by their roots littered the storied French Quarter of New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina tore through.
The intimate maze of narrow streets, quaint houses and bars, normally filled with the aroma of Creole cuisine, snatched notes of jazz and tourists from the world over, looked like a war zone.
French Quarter bears scars as Katrina pounds New Orleans
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#13La Tristesse du Quartier Francais
Posted: 8/30/05 at 7:50pmJust curious guys. Why does papa change subject lines to small case letters? and why does it bother pal so much? Both you guys are smart, well informed posters. What's up?
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#15La Tristesse du Quartier Francais
Posted: 8/30/05 at 8:00pm
I still haven't heard from any of my friends there.
I'm so sad.
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#16La Tristesse du Quartier Francais
Posted: 8/30/05 at 8:05pmI just heard where one of the organizers at the Cindy Sheehan protest has not heard from his daughter. That seems to be the case for a lot of people. The uncertainty and the waiting is just terrible.
#17La Tristesse du Quartier Francais
Posted: 8/30/05 at 8:49pm
6:03 P.M. - N.O. Councilman Oliver Thomas: "What you see on TV, you have no idea what the level of devastation and frustration is on the street."
6:04 P.M. - Thomas: Most sobering moment - being told to leave the dead bodies, because there are people to rescue.
6:05 P.M. - Thomas: Saw at least three dead bodies during his rescues. Whole families were among those rescued.
Updates as they come in on Katrina
#18La Tristesse du Quartier Francais
Posted: 8/30/05 at 9:03pm
Jesus Christ, things are bad down there.
Prayers and positive thoughts to EVERYONE down there.
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#19La Tristesse du Quartier Francais
Posted: 8/30/05 at 9:44pmCNN is reporting that the National Guard is being deployed to the New Orleans French Quarter to combat growing violence. Journalists are being shot at and cars trying to get out of the city are being targeted for carjacking. Prisoners are rioting trying to escape and holding hostages.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#20La Tristesse du Quartier Francais
Posted: 8/30/05 at 9:57pm
My sister's is in Baton Rouge and are safe. No electricity, but not under ten feet of water!
Where is the President? Homeland Security - where???
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#21La Tristesse du Quartier Francais
Posted: 8/30/05 at 10:50pm
The night before Katrina hit there was a previously scheduled special on National Geographic Explorer about the apparent worsening of natural disasters that I happened to watch. It covered tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes and hurricanes. For each of the topics they focussed on one place on earth where not only were people extremely vulnerable to these disasters and not likely to survive them (like the foolish citizens who keep moving to Naples who will not make it through the inevitable eruption of Vesuvius) and for the hurricane section they said that New Orleans was destined to be destroyed by a hurricane.
They talked about how the series of levees that the army corps of engineers erected to "protect" the downtown area they call "the bowl" because it is below sea level, would probably not work if the city took a direct hit from a category 2 or 3 hurricane. It was at that point I said, "Uh oh." When CNN showed interviews yesterday with people who rode the storm out in the French Quarter and who said after the storm passed that they "knew the old house" would hold up, I thought, "I dunno... the problem is the water."
I wasn't anywhere near the media throughout the day today, but I have to say, after seeing that special I am not suprised by any of this. There were some experts who didn't think New Orleans would be able to recover for years if they took a smaller hit than this... that the compromised drinking water alone could actually make the place unihabitable.
It was a bleak scenario, and it seems to be coming to pass.
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#22La Tristesse du Quartier Francais
Posted: 8/30/05 at 10:54pmYou're right, Namo -- it was always a kind of Russian roulette to build a city below sea level. What I want to know is, is Los Angeles also a tragedy waiting to happen?
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#23La Tristesse du Quartier Francais
Posted: 8/30/05 at 10:56pmThey focused on LA and San Fran as the two big doomed earthquake cities.
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Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#24La Tristesse du Quartier Francais
Posted: 8/30/05 at 11:34pmIt's one thing to move into a major city that might be hit by a huge disaster at some unknown point in the future. What I really don't get is people who build their houses (and worse, beach homes) in flood zones over and over again, or insist that their vacation homes need to be in the middle of a fire-prone forest or landslide-vulnerable mountains. In the end, they always need to be assisted at taxpayer expense and it's just annoying.
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