Reuben Gant
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I saw on CNN that that song will not be played in Canada until this is over.
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I didn't take the time to read this thread, but would just like to say that the
Bush twins should be driving a speedboat down the mississippi to save refugees......either that, or they should be parachuting in with water.
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I don't know how to even phrase this question because of the shear magnitude, but here goes...
What happens to New Orleans?
Right now, the city is dead. The 1.3 million people of Greater New Orleans have left or are being evacuated and won't be back for months. Thousands of companies are now non-operational. This is such a social-economic disorder that can't be described because it has never happened.
The people will move on. My guess since people can't live there for months, they will move to another city, get a job and start over. They'll only come back to N.O. to get their insurance check.
What happens to the businesses? They have to go on right?
And for the physical structures? It's my belief that most if not all will have to be leveled once the water is gone. Are they better off just leveling the city, filling it in with dirt and raising it above sea level so they can rebuild?
So many questions and I can't figure out where to even go.
This is an environmental disaster. Sludge, debris, heavy metals, toxins, etc. are probably going to make the Love Canal clean-up look like a picnic in comparison.
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I don't need a pretty face. Bring back Irv Weinstein. He might have been a star on 24 hour cable news.
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Yeah, its probably healthy for you, but if you would rather eat pizza, play
poker, and drink beer that might be money well spent too
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I paid $2.85 this morning 60 miles south of Buffalo.
Just over $40 to fill a 14.5 gallon tank.
Highest on TSW wins all of our sympathy.
Edit: don't know how I missed this thread, sorry guys.
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Who said anything about sticking anyone's head in the sand?
The point I keep trying to make (unsuccesfully, I guess) is that in a muliti-trillion dollar economy like the U.S., as bad as things seem right now, the OVERALL impact is still relatively small. The economy can absorb this if we don't get some kind of collective panic attack due to CNN/Fox overload.
The issue appears to be too polarizing/emotional right now (understandable). But the impact/implications will become clearer in the next few days.
I guess I see what your trying to say: the economic trauma won't reach the scale of 9-11. That remains to be seen, but, I think in terms of a national story, the scale of this has already caused an economic dislocation for 500,000 to 1,000,000 people that are refugees. That may not change macroeconomic fundamentals, but that aint chump change either. What other event has made upward of 1M people homeless and possibly unemployed overnight?
You might be right, the rest of us emotionally raw and unempathetic to a macro economic\historical assessment right about now. (you could at least concede national in scale and I'll go away )
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Are you sure you want to stick with this assesment?
Maybe I am missing something, but if the military is mobilized, parts of five states are emergency regions,
the president flies over, the congress puts together a relief package,
the economy is influenced and markets spike, and thousands of
americans are dead, what exactly qualifies as a national event?
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It's good, but I want to see the goalpost back on the goal-line. Has moving it back to the endline really enhanced our enjoyment of the game? You could use it as a nice pick, or drive a defender into that sucker.
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If 80% is the estimate of people that evacuated, my
Catholic math estimates that 96,000 people stayed for
one reason or another.
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Usually the offers for aid in disasters are pretty prefunctory, they are offered through the ambassadors, but in the case of the US, I imagine they will be declined with thanks. Hardly newsworthy.
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I got slight chuckle out of all the morning women newscasters this morning contorting their faces as not to smile. The smile thing is just reflex, they look awful trying to put on serious faces.
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if you mean from the US, I had good prices last year on US air out of Philly.
Oct/Nov is not so crowded and you should be able to get by with a light jacket in the mornings.
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