The Saints love is getting a little ridiculous

[Aikbach]

I have mixed feelings about your post. Katrina was bad....really bad.

But I agree that many over-sympathize with some who (1) didn't have enough sense to find a way out of the path of the storm and (2) STILL have not rebuilt years after the storm hit.

I don't actually live in New Orleans...wouldn't do it. I live in the suburbs.

I've been really tough on Saints fans this week, and I stand by it...their behavior as Saints fans can be ridiculously rabid and sometimes silly. But people in this community are really great people otherwise.

That said, GO COWBOYS!! :starspin

There are thousands of people in Houston and Pensecola that never went back and live homelesss on the streets.

When I was in L.A in 2008 there were people out there trying to milk sympathy for being Katrina evacuees, three years after the storm.

My heart is hardened and I see it as an excuse these days.

What really irks me is Biloxi was destroyed and rebuilt without fuss or empathy.

 

[cajuncocoa]

What really irks me is Biloxi was destroyed and rebuilt without fuss or empathy.

So was my area. I live in Jefferson Parish...we got back on our feet within a few months. It took awhile to get things back 100%, but we have been there for at least 3 years now.

And I know all about the evacuees who remain in Houston...that's where I evacuated (thank you, Houston!) but I left as soon as I got the green light to go home*!!
*September 20...right before Rita threatened Houston.

That's why I said I have mixed feelings about your post. I understand your point. But there are things that we had to go through that you may not realize.

Still, I get your point...you've seen only the pity party. I've seen the devastation, and it was really, really bad. But as bad as it was, there's really no excuse for some areas in New Orleans to still be as bad as they are.

I'm sooooo ready for the pity party to be over. Instead, I celebrate the hard working people in my area for getting off their ***** and getting to work to rebuild our homes and businesses. Why can't the City of New Orleans? Look at its leadership.

Added on edit: I'm just sayin' it's not just the people you see panhandling in N.O. and those who are still mooching off of the good citizens of Houston 5 years later who were affected by Katrina. WE ALL WERE -- in ways that will stay with us for the rest of our lives.

 

[fan62]

How can anyone love a city that the taxpayers of America are going to have to pay to rebuild over and over and over again? I figure NO will have to be rebuilt at least 5 times in the next century. When will they give up and let this city fall into the sea as it should. just plain stupid. Galveston will probably end up the same way; you think America will care? Not a bit.

And by the way, my brothers place just a few blocks off the Houston ship channel was destroyed in the next hurricane there, and he still can't get his Insurance or the government to help him rebuild. Where is America when people in Texas need hel?. Still rebuilding N.O., and **** Texas.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Interesting fact: In the state of Texas, selling alcohol before noon Sunday is still illegal.

a tad archaic but hardly interesting

 

[Ren]

Nah, French is nowhere near as crappy as Norwegian.

Norwegian isn't spoken by a people that are historically *******, Norwegian is a mans language French is not

 

[Bleu Star]

Aww c'mon, DE. Don't be so sensitive. Nobody's saying that either. Just poking a bit of fun at N.O.

People talk all the time about how country Texas is. Hell, I've seen cows chewing grass on the side of Houston highways. Or people talking on bluetooths while riding horses down the street.

Hard to talk about how metropolitan a city is when you see that.

:laugh2: :laugh1: :laugh2:

People with BT headsets stuck to the side of their domes already make me giggle uncontrollably inside. People on horses doing the same? That would put me in the hospital.

 

[DFWJC]

I have mixed feelings about your post. Katrina was bad....really bad.

But I agree that many over-sympathize with some who (1) didn't have enough sense to find a way out of the path of the storm and (2) STILL have not rebuilt years after the storm hit.

I don't actually live in New Orleans...wouldn't do it. I live in the suburbs.

I've been really tough on Saints fans this week, and I stand by it...their behavior as Saints fans can be ridiculously rabid and sometimes silly. But people in this community are really great people otherwise.

That said, GO COWBOYS!! :starspin

I lived in the heart of that city for nearly a decade and there are some outstanding people there, but by and large there is a big hand-out mentality that only got magnified 100 fold after Katrina. I hear it is better now though because a lot of the people willingn to actually build something stayed or returned.

I will say this about the rebuilding--similar to some of the other sotries here--my hometown on the Outer Banks of North Carolina got completely flattened a few years ago. I mean wiped out. Yet it is almost completey rebuilt now. Everyone reached out to help. And even though FEMA had a busy year and really a lagged in helping (10x worse than New Orleans) you did not hear the whining and moaning that came out of N.O. What happned in New Olreans was a once in a 100+ years deal, people knew it may happen some day but for the past 30 years it'd just been a waiting game. Good grief.

 

[DallasEast]

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