New Orleans

[Acerz492 1]

Hehe...if New Zealand had stuff to send we would send them...but we don't have anything. :lol:

[Daedalus 0]

Its not just that Europe doesnt always like to help rich countries that can do it themselves.. Its also the fact that America does relatively little to help the rest of the world (that is if you look at dollars per head) plus I dont think they liked it very much that they had to ask the rest of the world for help.. its not something the US likes to do..

 

Oh and about the wake-up call.. its not a wake up call on sercurity.. its more a wake up call that shows that only looking out for terrorists wont keep you safe from other kinds of catastrophies.. and it proves that cities should have emergency plans.. esspecially if its protected by benches that could break, even though that might be unlikely.. The Netherlands had war with the water before.. we learned to protect ourselves over 50 years ago..

[Guest MadBadger]

again its back to $ per head...... AMERICANS PAY VIRTUALY NO TAX..... how the goverment ment to get more with out a civil war? oooh and i guess the $120 bill they gave them affected by the tsunami dosnt count? or that they give something stupid like 500% more cash to charity as a country than any other.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Not to sound mean but America did need a good ****ing wake up call. I don't think 9/11 was enough.

is this gona be your attitude towards every catastophic ossurence on our little planet ??

It might be. I guess we'll have to see what the future brings. See, I have a realistic approach to life. Stuff like this is going to happen and if the government feels the need to refuse to help and people refuse to leave, then I feel no sadness for them. People are too abject to human suffering. We need to let natural selection weed out the weak and stupid... see? Realistic.

 

HOWEVER, if someone was in my town, and had suffered a major catastrophe like that, I'd help him out in a real way. Buy him a meal, buy him some useful items or whatever he may need.

[Acerz492 1]

People are too abject to human suffering. We need to let natural selection weed out the weak and stupid... see? Realistic.

 

S'truth. New Orleans is a good example of Natural Selection in action. A bastard and cold-hearted I may seem for saying that but if a hurricane threatened to flood Auckland in the way Katrina did to New Orleans, then I sure as hell wouldn't stay in my home. :roll:

[Cygnus X-1 12]

Well I agree that this nation is chock full of dickheads.

 

Id ask for a few more hurricans for X-mas, but some of these places Id liek to see before they get trashed.

 

As for America not helping on terms of $per head......you be stupid to judge a nation like that. So dont make it a habit.

 

Everyone says it was Bush's fault that what happened happened. But He doesnt have time to make each city's evac plan. Sheesh.

 

Europe cant talk. You dont get Hurricanes :wink:

[Luk3us 63]

I don't know why you'd live somewhere where that sort of thing happens so often....

[Doctor Destiny 41]

It didn't happen in New Orleans. It was always forecasted that this would happen but in the past, hurricanes veered off and the people saw some wind and heavy surf. They developed a state of complacency towards the whole thing and that contributed to some people's unwillingness to leave.

[Cygnus X-1 12]

and the fact that the city government didnt think it would ever happen.

 

unfortuneatly, the sub-county that I live in is kinda the same way, only with Tornadoes. We havent been hit dirrectly for over 60 years. We had a few close calls last year, but I dunno......

 

course, the topography kinda helps us out here :wink:

[Luk3us 63]

Meh.. Nothing interesting ever happens here...

 

That is a good thing by the way..

[Acerz492 1]

:lol: Everyone should move to New Zealand...it's the safest place on earth...

 

Actually, stay where you are. We don't want you here.

[Luk3us 63]

Exactly.. You can visit but you ain't staying.

[Acerz492 1]

Too bloody right you're not. If you want to stay, it'll take five years of trying to apply for a NZ citizenship, and then we'll just say 'No' anyway. Just to spite you.

[Guest MadBadger]

heard bout some 'care' workers who left 34 odd oldies in the care home and fled when the water came now there both standing trial for murder of all 34 its a southen state init? death penalty? or are the power lines still out :cry:

 

i think this rite thread :?

[Cygnus X-1 12]

yeah, some people

 

all kinda of **** went on down there

 

now the insurance companies are bull****tsing the people about damage claims

[Luk3us 63]

If I owned any of those insurance companies first thing I'd do when I saw the news was get all the money I could and take a one way trip to somewhere far away...

[Acerz492 1]

That's why I don't intend to ever work for an insurance firm...too easy to get the blame if you **** things up somehow. :lol:

[Luk3us 63]

What is actually happening over there now? I don't see much of anything bout that place anymore on the news...

[chickendippers 1]

There's nothing wrong with working for an insurance company, just as long as you aren't in the call centre having to deal with angry customers - your workload might quite high processing all the quotes though.

 

Being a damage assessor woulodn't be fun in New Orleans though.

[Guest Rabbit]

Too bloody right you're not. If you want to stay, it'll take five years of trying to apply for a NZ citizenship, and then we'll just say 'No' anyway. Just to spite you.

 

Oh, so that's why my parents couldn't get in? :?

 

Heh... Don't you ever have something like tsunami trouble? Or is that just Japan?

[Cygnus X-1 12]

Japan and Asia I think

 

but as for New Orleans....not much goin on nowadays. Everyones out, cleanup has begun, people are all over hte news blaming Bush on everything that happened

 

stupid people. Like 1 guy coulduv made a differernce down there. the President has to run a country, he cant sit there and babysit evacuations and city planning :?

[Luk3us 63]

Speaking of nasty storms..

 

We're supposed to have this ubber superstorm tomorrow... Lots of snow and stuff....

 

I have my doubts... :roll: :roll:

[Cygnus X-1 12]

well we just had a nasty bit of rain that lasted all day

[Doctor Destiny 41]

zOmG rain!!!!!!!!11111111 >_>

[Cygnus X-1 12]

right now its nice and cool, but ubber sunny 8)