is it true that the leavy in new orleans was destroyed purposely?
155962
Purposely? No.\n\nBut was the attempt to help people in and out of the city done competently? No.\n\nI don't think it was rasict or malicious...just incompetence, from poorly selected managers and a Homeland Defence Department that is mainly focused on terrorists.\n\nThey should have left FEMA out of the DHS and put a disaster specialist in charge instead of a political crony.
142447
It has recently been discovered that the levees were built with a substance derived from sugarcane.  New Orleans is infested with Formosan termites, which can eat through cement to get to sweet-smelling stuff.  They are finding   areas of the underground part of the levees that were eaten away.  The levees need to be rebuilt properly.  Also, the levee closest to my house broke because of a barge that was not properly secured before the hurricane; it drifted into a levee and broke through.
76514
I do not think so.  I think it is only for those families that lived here prior to the storm.  The city is currently looking to re-vamp 10,000 aprtments for rent.  Be patient.  There is plenty of rental property on out lying areas.  The suberbs that I live in have plenty to offer and it is only 30 mins from New Orleans without traffic.  With traftic it is about an hour.
1078717
Yes, but not having a Boeing 747 crashed into them. They actually stood up for quite a long time with the fires and the structural weakening. No building is meant to withstand the magnitude of a crash from a Boeing 747 with a full tank of fuel. The steel inside should have actally expanded, but yet it stayed still long enough for most of the survivors to get out. I think the structural integrity weighs out the disaster. The twin towers weren't going to stay up forever, as with most skyscrapers they are very succeptable to the elemetns as well.
461287
They were WARNED that they MUST evacuate.  Busses were running full time to get people out, yet so many refused to leave.  Some were on the news dancing in the streets of the French Quarter as the storm approached.  After the storm, they all ran for the Superdome, and there were not enough supplies for the additional people, so that screwed the people who originally went to be sheltered there.  Something else angers me: The National Guard gets blamed for not responding, but the storm was over Tuesday, and TV cameras broadcast National Guard at the airport on Thursday.  This pretty enlisted female told the reporter that they arrived Wednesday, and were setting up relief.\n\nThen cops are out there looting Wal Mart (caught on video).  It would have been one thing if they were getting food, but, well you know the rest of the story.  \n\nPeople cry for the idiots in New Orleans (no, the ones who evacuated are NOT idiots), while Rita pretty much levelled some towns in Southwest Louisiana.  Places where there were towns were now just a bunch of cement foundations.  One person found their house a few miles away.  Nobody even talks about these people--Mississippi gets more attention.
93169
It's a waste of our tax dollars. New Orleans is 60-65 feet below sea level. And is basically an island in a sense (picture a bowl in a bath tub full of water). Not to mention this is not the first time they had this storm. I feel no pitty for most of them down there. Nor do I support the fact my tax dollars are being wasted in New Orleans.\nI really think New Orleans and the the state it resides in. Should pay back money from tax payers over a period of time. Why you may ask? Because Stupidity is not an excuse.
1063847
There is no proof. All the evidence disappeared to China or the bottom of the ocean. Why were they so quick to get rid of that steel? Do you really believe that jet fuel gets hot enough to collapse an I beam? Hell, I've picked out beer cans after a bonfire. Duh! And as far as I know, airliners aren't made for knocking down buildings. They are light so they can fly. Have ever seen a crash site? There usually isn't a whole lot of recognizable things left. A building that would collapse after getting hit like that wouldn't pass a NYC building code exam.
116957
Well, I know New Orleans USED to be one of the worst....ahem.\n\n\n(BTW, NYC is one of the best)
461542
I live in Slidell, LA on the northshore of Lake Ponchatrain and can tell you that the levies are barely up to the standards before Hurricane Katrina.  While politicians in the state and on the federal level complain and bicker, time is being wasted as the huirricane seaon is only a couple months away.  I have never lived in New Orleans directly but would advice people that it is not a safe place environmentally or sanitarily.  Basic power and water are not available to 35-50% of the New Orleans East and most of that area is virtually untouch since Katrina!!!  my career has directed me toward the MS Gulf Coast where I am seeing vast improvements to the area as opposed to New Orleans.  Please remember the Mississippi Gulf Coast when thinking of Katrina.  The devestation here is something that needs to be seen to believed.
985989
Still trying to prove that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job by the CIA and federal government, eh?\n\nThe fuel fire did not vaporize 100 tons of steel and titanium.  But by heating the metals, they softened them so much that the structural beams sagged and collapsed.  Once the upper floors of the building started to move, there was so much momentum going that it cause the lower floors to fail, too, and just kept going until it hit the ground.\n\nOn the other hand, all I have to do is provide enough heat to the metal to cause it to vaporize -- the temperature of the flame itself is not critical here -- just the total amount of heat produced.
296305
Well,there are many,but one that is very sad is the destruction of New Orleans,my favourite city,and with it most of the charm,elan,flexibility,joie de vivre,imagination,mystery of the United States,due to a scandalous negligence...
76631
no, New Orleans was a hazard waiting to happen and nothing substantial should have ever been developed there, the people who lived there were in danger the whole time they've been there, it was just simply overlooked
795292
Why, indeed.  \nApparently they got "another Pearl Harbor" and put the fear of Jesus in everyone, and they didn't want anyone to find evidence of demolition.  You know, steel columns sheered with thermite.\nOther evidence, of explosives having been used, might indicate that something other than planes and fire brought down the towers.\nAnd Building 7...
37848
How could you possibly say no? Would your city be worth rebuilding? Political corruption? You think New Orleans is the only city that has run into a few issues? Dare we look into the corruption of our own cities? Or are we just lucky enough to have not been hit by a natural disaster so that we don't have our city plastered all over the media? \n\nFolks........forget what you see on the media. Please think of the people that live there. Forget how the media portrayed some of the people. Reactions during a disaster are not our common behaviors. Survival instincts kick in. \n\nYes.....it is MORE than worth rebuilding. And we should be coming together to do it...not righteously condemning a city which we all know is symbolic of much of America these days. \n\n*steps off soap box*
87215
No I don't think so and I am so sick of hearing the race card get played.\n\n1st of all Mayor Nagin had the power to evacuate his City before even bothering to contact the President but Mayor Nagin failed.\n\n2nd of all a lot of residents of New Orleans chose to stay in their homes when they were warned.
678003
Your first question is how did it collapse.  \nFrom everything I heard it was "pulled" or a planned implosion.\n\nYour second question was is it possible that it collapsed due to fire.\nNo.  In fact no steel framed building before or since has completely collapsed due to fire.  And in this case there were only two floors that had small fires on them.\n\nI'm no expert.  But this is what some scientists and people who are looking into the collapse of building 7 along with towes 1 and 2 are saying.
1087202
One of the TV specials indicated that the WTC was designed to take the impact of jet plane.  However it was smaller one than what hit it.\n\nObviously each tower was able to absorb an impact above what it was designed for.\n\nThe near full load of jet fuel in the plane ignited and with the sprinklers not function due to the impact, the intense heat of the fire soften the structural beams.\n\nEventually the structure, already damage by the impact, failed because the reaming steel became too weak