Katrina before and after pics..

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I really don\'t know what to say about the progress of New Orleans.....i mean we have billions for iraq within the drop of a dime, but can\'t seem to get this moving faster....but at the same time i do understand that the insurance companies are also responsible for alot of the sluggish recovery. alot of "what isn\'t covered or what they could build and what could not be built, or just bluntly say this isn\'t covered".....in any case it\'s pretty interesting to see the progress thus far...i was really impressed in the way the people in frame 13 restored their home.

Again i think the type of coverage one has, plus the amount of money resources one has to restore their home, plus a litany of other factors, impacts the progress of your home. I remember when 911 happened and i could actually see the twin towers smokin\' from my apt in jersey, and after seein\' the devastation at ground zero, i thought to myself..."this is going to take years to clean up".

Fast forward some years later and they cleaned up that area pretty nicely, i\'m still lookin\' forward to the new towers that\'s going to be built there in years to come....New Orleans will come back, it\'s just going to take a painfully long time.




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20364536/?gt1=10252

It is the government\'s responsibility to help than wait for insurance companies to decide what and when.

Here\'s a quick summary of most of those pictures:

1.  Nice building
2.  Building is totally gone or severely damaged.
3.  a - Nothing has been rebuilt yet.  OR...
3.  b - Replica of building has been built, only 12 feet higher on stilts

It\'s private property.  I wouldn\'t want the government to fund the rebuilding of every structure automatically.  Maybe some of them shouldn\'t be rebuilt.  From the pictures, it certainly looks that way to me.

Property owners need to collect from their insurance companies  If the insurance companies are screwing their policy holders, as I would expect, then the government needs to tighten the screws on the insurance companies.  We can\'t tolerate this kind of criminal behavior from corporations operating in the United States.

Gov should fix the roads/highways, help pay for trash removal, and rebuild public service buildings such as police HQ and schools.

Personal property should be covered by insurance.  If people didn\'t have insurance they should move to Texas and start over.  Titan loves that idea.

Maybe they want to give (full) brick / concrete houses a chance ? They\'re really solid.  :thumb:

[GmanJoe]

Maybe they want to give (full) brick / concrete houses a chance ? They\'re really solid.  :thumb:

The story of the Three Little Pigs does have some good advice.

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I\'ve been to New Orleans quite a few times and had a blast.  I mean the hood is a goner, but I\'d never step foot in that area anyway.  The reason the 9th ward was low cost housing was because no one wanted to live there.  Let the thing flood like it should be and build somewhere else.  woohoo!!!

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i really don\'t know, if what i see as far as progress is just business as usual...i remember, back in 05, when katrina spiraled off a lot of mini-storms through georgia and some in florida that it leveled quite a few neighborhoods with high winds and tornadoes, and i saw on the news not too long ago, how those area\'s in florida *and these were area\'s that were considered kinda pricey and in a retirement type of location* still looked like there was no real progress....even for an area like that, which leads me to believe that that the ins companies and gov\'t in general just sometimes drag their feet when it comes to natural disasters...

I guess it\'s like when your ins. premium is due and they threaten to cancel if it\'s not paid by the said date, but then when you need them to be there for you when tragedy strikes, they kinda put you thru all kinds of bulls**t and red-tape....some ins. companies respond really well tho...but alot of them make you go thru hoops when you really need them....and the gov\'t? i guess you better be ready to give up an arm if you want a rapid and fair response from them...

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I go to Panama City, Orange Beach, and a few other panhandle cities every year for my fishing tournament circuit and it\'s horrible.  And it\'s been years and years since they were destroyed.  You can\'t just rebuild a city in a year.  Ain\'t enough money nor enough workers.

I\'m going to Biloxi in a couple months.  It will be interesting to see how bad it is there.  And no one talks about that.  Guess there aren\'t enough blacks there to scream at the government for being racist.

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I go to Panama City, Orange Beach, and a few other panhandle cities every year for my fishing tournament circuit and it\'s horrible.  And it\'s been years and years since they were destroyed.  You can\'t just rebuild a city in a year.  Ain\'t enough money nor enough workers.

I\'m going to Biloxi in a couple months.  It will be interesting to see how bad it is there.  And no one talks about that.  Guess there aren\'t enough blacks there to scream at the government for being racist.

Heh...i know there was alot of racial overtones considering the response to katrina,...and even tho i did feel the gov\'t took an exceptionaly long time to respond...*especially since they knew about it* i don\'t think race had anything to do with it knowing what i know now...and i know there have been threads in here on katrina and how race played a part, and even if it did, i think it played a very, very small part in it....for the most part i feel the gov\'t just dropped the ball.....and it is true that the same scenario happened in Biloxi, but you didn\'t hear or recieve too much coverage on that area, which just reinforces my belief that the gov\'t just dropped the ball on that disaster...

Sometimes the media wil also make a mountain out of a molehill,..like in the Michael Vick thread...i posted an article in there where it stated that the Vick case was turning into a black vs white case.....and that wasn\'t the case at all,...you had some whites supportin\' Vick and you also had some blacks not supportin\' him....it\'s little things like that, that just leads me to believe that to some degree that some in the media like to keep the racial thing goin\'.