HURRICANES!

[Skulhedface]

No matter how you slice it, they can't even begin to rebuild New Orleans for another month at least. Realistically speaking, it might take them about a month and a half to two months to pump all the water out, unless they manage to get all nine pumps fixed and maintained at 100% for three weeks.

Most of the buildings in New Orleans are of brick and wood, but you can imagine with a category 5 hurricane, if the buildings aren't made out of adamantium there's gonna be shit torn down.

Yes, New Orleans is 80% underwater. It's a big city, it's below sea level, and if you want to be technical, even the tallest houses in the city have water up to the windows. Admittedly, though, Gulfport and Biloxi suffered MUCH worse, both cities having been turned into gigantic parking lots. Some riverboat casinos were found blocking interstates as far as miles away.

I hear tales that if New Orleans is to be rebuilt it's supposed to be rebuilt Seattle-style, a city on top of a city if you will, to prevent such a thing from happening again.

The National Guard is sorely needed as far west as Baton Rouge because looters and carjackers have become a BIG problem. The local college campus is recommending that students travel in groups.

Here's another "Worst in humanity" story: A hotel in Shreveport had allowed evacuees to stay in their empty rooms but promptly kicked the evacuees out of the rooms when people showed up to claim their reservations.

Seems to me this'd turn into a massive PR fiasco. They could've just not let the evacuees in in the first place, or at the very least told them they could stay until the reservations were to be honored, or maybe you know, told the people that DIDN'T lose everything that they couldn't accomodate them and give them an apology. I'd think the evacuees would need the room a little more than a vacationing pack of brats, but hey... that's just me.