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Well, Gustav just passed over Cuba and is now a category 4, could become a category 5, and is headed towards New Orleans. Let's hope it's not like Katrina.
I hope Dallasman willl be OK. For those of you more recent members, Dallasman, if I'm not mistaken, is from that area, and was one of the original founders/members of this board. Also, I believe he was responsible for creating the original 'Magic CD'. I haven't seen him post in awhile. Anyone know how he's doing now?

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Good question. He believed in dressing nicely in the DR and treating the girls like the sweet, innocent gf's they're not.

The CD was an extention of that philosophy.

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Man Gustav is a real MFer! We're getting storm bands here in West Palm. I can only imagine the havoc it will wreck. People when they order an evac. just do it. Get the F out of harms way or possibly perrish. Some real serious chit.

Pardon me if this is not taken well, pardon me if this seems mean spirited.

I don't want anyone to get hurt or loose their life during G. Okay, with that said, NO has not learned from the past. Believe it or not, there are absolutely no *restrictions if one decides to rebuild in NO. FEMA went through all the neighborhood and painted lines on trees indicating how high the next house should be, but those lines are only advisory. The local gov't allows people to rebuild at ground level, no shit, can you believe it?

I truly do not understand why some people are determined to put houses where they should not be. It isn't as if the USA is a tiny country and needs the space in NO. I've never heard anyone talk about why they don't turn the low areas into lakes and then maybe build nice houses on lake front property or build casinos on lake front. It seems people are hell bent on having houses in the wrong place.

I wish I understood the mindset more.

*My information came from a program aired on NPR.

So it was Dallasman? Well a belated muchas gracias to you brother wherever you may be. I only just put that playlist to work (thx GetRhythm) a few months back with a Dominicana in Jaco...and it was indeed MAGIC!! The chica had a great attitude to begin with...but once the music started...off the charts... Highly recommended...I've been a big Mana fan ever since...

PHX

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It looks like many have already started evacuating and La. has already declared a disaster prior to the event. I am confident and hopeful that lessons have been learned and the response better. Plus, being an election year.............

Godspeed to any who are there......


PURA VIDA!

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I used to think that way as well sometimes D2864....but where does that end? Are you going to move from California because there are earthquakes, wildfires, drought, mudslides....etc? Are we going to clean out Tornado Alley because the people live in a high risk area for tornadoes? Or move everyone from NC to Galveston, that lives along the coastline?

The problem with NO is Engineering..everyone knows that the city is below sea level. Obviously they are not comfortable with the levees yet because I saw a report stating they were "hoping" they held up.

As to the mind set....imagine people living government paycheck to government paycheck...in an area where theor entire family is and has been for many many years....

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Tstef527, I see what you are saying, however earthquake and tornado are too random to clear a certain spot. The entire tornado alley can't be cleared, all of Californian can't be cleared. After an earthquake or a tornado, rebuild and chances are another won't happen in the same exact spot for 100 years. What sets NO apart is that the troubled areas can be pinpointed on a map. So much $$$ has to be spent to build there and then maintain it year after year. Levies are not like bridges where a toll can be collected for maintenance so a constant strain of local, state, and federal tax budget all while the tax base in NO is very little. I could understand if the USA were a tiny country and we had to put all the land to good use like Israel.

I expect some of you may spit on me and some of the rest never talk to me again but it must be said: where New Orleans is is not a place for a town and New Orleans has darned little excuse for being at all--it's a museum town and like those in Europe (Bruges, for example) has wages, etc. way lower than even the area average. It has no economically viable reason for being where it is. What should have happened after Katrina was bulldozing the city flat and rebuilding on the NORTH side of Lake Pontchartrain. If anything should exist on the present site, let it be a full-on fake village like Williamsburg, Va. That it still exists at its present location is romantic fantasy.

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I arrived wednesday. I knew it was going to be a very tricky return ti Houston on monday. I have tied not to look at the news much as I know that she is going to be very hectic in Houston upon my return. Since being in CR I have seen the millions of New Orleans citizens running for their lives two years removed from Katrina. I hope that no one has squatted on my homestead when I arrive! Those Cajuns are a rough bunch!

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The city is there because that is where the river is. The river is the reason that the city is there. It's called th Crescent city because it sits inside a crescent shaped curve in the river. That shape makes the city a viable port. A port that gives central United States economical access to the ocean. The very first Europeans navigating up the river immediately saw the significance of the location and founded the city of New Orleans.

Unquestionably the city has its economical problems. But the city is needed for the chemical industry that is concentrated north and south of the city. Not to mention it helps support one of the most significant sources of oil in the United States offshore Louisiana. I'm not even going to get in to how Louisiana receives so little compensation for nurturing and dealing with that industry. An industry many of your states will not even accept on their territory they are afraid some birds might get little oil on its wing. They would prefer to see their young men go to far off lands and and fight for the oil.

Some think New Orleans is just a quaint little thing from the past that we no longer need. Just bulldoze it over and save the American taxpayers some money. You know kind of like taking that 80-year-old uncle of yours who really isn't contributing anything anymore and pulling the plug. You know those resources could be used someplace else.

As always just my humble opinion.

Lee

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Prior to Katrina New Orleans had a population of approximately 500,000. In August of this year that number was at about 230,000. Purely a guess but I would say about 200,000 of those are on the road headed north. The area I live in west of the city probably has a population of around 50,000. 40,000 of those are probably headed north. People that three years ago would not have even considered leaving were on their way north by Saturday morning. Me not being too bright I would've stayed. Not as dumb as it sounds I know the environment. I'm above the potential water line and the way my home is constructed it has a central core to protect from flying debris caused by the storm.

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My connecting flight tomorrow morning is scheduled to leave Miami at 10:30 AM so I'm not sure if Gustav is going to delay me. I try and follow the latest status and I hear Gustav hitting NO by Monday afternoon if not sooner.

I'm not sure if it'll have an affect on my flight and I hope that if it does, all that happens is the plane will take a longer router around the storm. Then again it can just get cancelled and that would suck large.

But a bigger issue is the people in Lousiana who didn't need Katrina 2 (Electric Bugaloo) hitting again so soon

Take care K*ds.

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I can only hope that Gustav will die down when it hit NO.



Do take care , Lee.

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Lee... time to slip out of those smooth elevator shoes & put on the best pair of running shoes you own. Take care & may the force be with you.

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