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[LS Syndicate]

Parishes/counties St. Bernard and Gretna.

St. Bernard Parish was more under water than Orleans Parish. There was a nursing home in St Bernard that was flooded out and 34 people died.

Yep. My aunt's house is in Gretna and she had some flooding herself. But I did hear about some nearby towns like Covington and Houma and Opelousas that tried to block evacuees from coming in.

JayRob, I heard that story about people blocking bridges, with rifles in their hands, telling people to turn around.

 

[JayRob]

2005 was already a bad summer in Houston for crime before August 31st. I don't know if it was the heat or what, but it was pretty bad. Then when the N.O. thugs came trying to set up shop in the H, it got very very testy.

Some N.O. folks were committing murders, but there was a lot of selective reporing by the media. They began to lump all murders committed by or AGAINST evacuees into the same pile. It would be "There have been 25 murders involving evacuees over the past 6 months". Then you see the breakdown and 15 of them would be evacuees being killed by local gang members.

Yep. The Texas prison system is getting rich off the evacuees with the federal dollars they're being given to build a prison in every county that's why Texas allowed Black folks in. They had a reason behind it and certainly didn't do it out of the goodness of their Texas heart.

 

[jag4life]

Yep. The Texas prison system is getting rich off the evacuees with the federal dollars they're being given to build a prison in every county that's why Texas allowed Black folks in. They had a reason behind it and certainly didn't do it out of the goodness of their Texas heart.

I wouldn't go so far as to say the evacuees helped their prison system.

 

[C-LeB28]

This thread should be moved to Small Talk.

 

[mighty hornet]

2005 was already a bad summer in Houston for crime before August 31st. I don't know if it was the heat or what, but it was pretty bad. Then when the N.O. thugs came trying to set up shop in the H, it got very very testy.

Some N.O. folks were committing murders, but there was a lot of selective reporing by the media. They began to lump all murders committed by or AGAINST evacuees into the same pile. It would be "There have been 25 murders involving evacuees over the past 6 months". Then you see the breakdown and 15 of them would be evacuees being killed by local gang members.

Not that I'm doubting the case, but do you have any links to that or anything like it? I'd be interested in reading it. years later, and its still almost hard to comprehend it. I remember recording When The Levees Broke by Spike, but I foolishly "loaned" it out and I aint seen it since.

 

[jag4life]

Not that I'm doubting the case, but do you have any links to that or anything like it? I'd be interested in reading it. years later, and its still almost hard to comprehend it. I remember recording When The Levees Broke by Spike, but I foolishly "loaned" it out and I aint seen it since.

I don't have any links handy. I'd have to really search, as the media reports were mainly on the TV news.

 

[JayRob]

Not that I'm doubting the case, but do you have any links to that or anything like it? I'd be interested in reading it. years later, and its still almost hard to comprehend it. I remember recording When The Levees Broke by Spike, but I foolishly "loaned" it out and I aint seen it since.

Uhh, try youtube.

 

[SUjagTILLiDIE]

What were y'all saying about BR again

The region with the most economic potential? The South
By Niraj Chokshi


The Louisiana capital leads the list of top metro areas for economic growth potential, according to Business Facilities magazine, which describes itself as “specializing in the site selection marketplace.” A new, 800-job IBM technology center downtown and related investments in technology education at Louisiana State University have the city poised to reap the benefits of a burgeoning software sector, the magazine found.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/g...n-with-the-most-economic-potential-the-south/

 

[JROCK]

St. Bernard Parish was more under water than Orleans Parish. There was a nursing home in St Bernard that was flooded out and 34 people died.

St. Bernard is a hop and skip from 9th ward on one side and New Orleans East on the another side. It flooded so bad in St. Bernard until there was also oil mixed into all of that flooding. St. Tammany on the New Orleans East side (Slidell) was bad too. Man Slidell is sitting right there on the bank of Lake Ponchartrain like some of NOLA.