Bush to visit New Orleans next week

by René | August 16, 2008 at 10:51 am
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Friday August 15, 2008, 11:44 AM

President Bush will visit New Orleans and the Mississippi Coast on Wednesday to check out the recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

The White House said today that Bush is expected to deliver an afternoon speech in New Orleans, then travel to the Mississippi Coast for dinner with community leaders.

Quite a cynical reaction from New Orleans on the Times-Picayune website.

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nukegingrich

Hard to believe three years have passed. 

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nukegingrich

You can't fix stupid

"In Louisiana, 17 percent of the respondents said they would not evacuate if the government said they had to because another major hurricane was headed toward the state.

And 15 percent said they believe they would be safer if they stayed in their homes rather than evacuate.

“This is the No. 1 reason people give for not evacuating,” Buhr said of people believing their homes are safe. “If Hurricane Katrina didn’t change that view, it’s pretty discouraging.”

Another 19 percent said if they had to evacuate, they would need help, but 41 percent of those said they had not yet lined up anyone to help them."


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René

Don't be stupid, nuke, that was highly slanted view.

The survey shows that in most areas, Louisiana residents are better prepared than the residents of the other seven states.

At the same time, the survey shows that Louisiana's residents are also more worried than the respondents in the other seven states about problems they might have during and after another hurricane.


Cause we gotta eat and they can't even half cook right in the other 51 states. And don't get me started on the issue of cocktail curfews...

gotta love this comment from oppossum on blog.nola.com:

love the comment on the food and cocktails! Gotta love Louisiana! I didn't evacuate for Katrina and probably won't for any future hurricanes. I don't like being kept from my house while looters have a field day, then have my house turn into a big glob of mold while I wait for the parish to let me go back home. What I wil do differently is put a little escape hatch from my attic to my roof and put my supplies in the attic,,,with a soft blanket so the roof won't bother me and a nice umbrella to keep the sun off of me while I wait for the water to go down :-)
My supplies will include Bacardi dark (because they made it illegal to sell liquor for a while after Katrine,,,,that could have started a riot right there!), lots of spaghetti O's, water, water, and more water, cokes, wet wipes, coffee, and a very big gun to keep looters away!

Officials were not going to let residents back into the city for months! a major city shut down for government incompetence and cupidity!

They're not stupid, nuke, just twice burnt.


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