anybody worrying about hurricane gustav?

[cygnustaxt]

yeah we've got 10 people staying with us and a bunch of dogs and cats. A huge branch fell on my freaking car and ripped the bumper off, and another car got a broken rear window (we have a ton of trees in our yard) and apparently there's a small leak in the roof near one of the outside doors, but all in all i guess everything is good.

[rebgirl420]

It blew inside out, 1/2 a mile that way

What kind of soup do you want Ollie?

CHUNKY!

[flyingimam]

It blew inside out, 1/2 a mile that way

Son!! use some reference next time!

it should have gone like this,
Tom: Don't you have an umbrella?
Olie: USED TO!
Tom: Where is it now?
Olie: INSIDE OUT TWO MILES AWAY!

What kind of soup do you want Ollie?

CHUNKY!

n u screwed up the rest of it gurl!
Tom: Is there anything we can do for you?
Olie: BRING ME SOME SOUP!
Tom: What kind?
Olie: CHUNKY!

imma end it properly tho [i'm not a fam guy or a quotefreak, just bored as hell, thus pickin on u 2!] :weedpoke:

Thanks, Ollie. Up next, a pig that refuses to eat Jews!? After this.

[psychocat]

I can't understand why anyone would return to a city that they know is in constant danger of being flattened.
You are driven out by a storm or earthquake, you return to find a destroyed home and/or business. You rebuild said home/business only for another storm/earthquake to come along and destroy all your hard work yet again.
Didn't Einstein say "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results" ?
People are crazy.

[420_24/7]

I can't understand why anyone would return to a city that they know is in constant danger of being flattened.
You are driven out by a storm or earthquake, you return to find a destroyed home and/or business. You rebuild said home/business only for another storm/earthquake to come along and destroy all your hard work yet again.
Didn't Einstein say "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results" ?
People are crazy.

I really take offense to this, and I hear it so often, but really, the people of New Orleans have way too much pride and love for their city to just let it be destroyed and not rebuild it. So many people, including myself have lived there for their whole lives, and there's just nowhere else like it. Everywhere I go, outside of the New Orleans tri-city area just feels different and wrong somehow.

I wouldn't call this insanity. I would just call it love. I've never seen any place where the people have as much pride in their city as New Orleans does.

Not to mention that if we didn't keep rebuilding, we would lose one of the largest most important ports in America.

Could you honestly say, that you would just abandon the only place that you can really call home?

[cygnustaxt]

I really take offense to this, and I hear it so often, but really, the people of New Orleans have way too much pride and love for their city to just let it be destroyed and not rebuild it. So many people, including myself have lived there for their whole lives, and there's just nowhere else like it. Everywhere I go, outside of the New Orleans tri-city area just feels different and wrong somehow.

I wouldn't call this insanity. I would just call it love. I've never seen any place where the people have as much pride in their city as New Orleans does.

Not to mention that if we didn't keep rebuilding, we would lose one of the largest most important ports in America.

Could you honestly say, that you would just abandon the only place that you can really call home?

Couldn't have said it better, New Orleans culture is something completely different from anywhere I've ever been. I mean I don't live in New Orleans, but I do live like an hour away so I've spent lots and lots of time there and its just something that you have to experience to understand why we keep rebuilding. I live in a small town on the gulf coast of ms and we were destroyed by katrina, but we rebuilt and the community bonded and became much closer than before katrina.

[psychocat]

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Could you honestly say, that you would just abandon the only place that you can really call home?

If it got flattened or flooded every couple of years I would have no problem relocating to somewhere where I know I'm not going to have to go through the heartache I see each time a city is devastated.

No offense meant BTW , I just find people a little bit crazy.
I wouldn't describe myself as a very emotional person and I try to take a very logical view of things , it isn't logical to me to live somewhere that throws up so many natural problems without any credible solution.

I hope for the folks involved that it all blows over (sorry ) quickly and without too much damage but I really struggle with the logic.

[420_24/7]

If it got flattened or flooded every couple of years I would have no problem relocating to somewhere where I know I'm not going to have to go through the heartache I see each time a city is devastated.

No offense meant BTW , I just find people a little bit crazy.
I wouldn't describe myself as a very emotional person and I try to take a very logical view of things , it isn't logical to me to live somewhere that throws up so many natural problems without any credible solution.

I hope for the folks involved that it all blows over (sorry ) quickly and without too much damage but I really struggle with the logic.

I'd also like to point out that it doesn't really happen very often. Not nearly as much as some places in Florida. Before Katrina it had been a very long time since a hurricane had badly damaged the city, it's just a bad coincidence that we got another bad one after only a few years.

[psychocat]

I guess N.O. is a bit better than certain parts of Cali with thier raging infernos.
I kind of understand what your saying . I also kind of admire the sort of spirit it takes to keep going back after disasters.

[higher4hockey]

not quite what i expected. being from PA i was expecting a pretty intense storm. didnt seem to be that bad though.