I do not want to create panic, but I do want the citizens to understand that this is very serious and it's of the highest nature and that's why we've taken this unprecedented move,
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Most of the experts are telling us that any house that was in flood waters for a couple of weeks where the water was above their (electrical) outlets, is probably a property that is going to be very difficult to renovate, ... All I know is that in some areas, houses will be demolished in significant numbers.Ray Nagin
The model that were looking for to rebuild this city, is to keep New Orleans unique culturally, unique musically, unique from a people perspective, but economically as strong as an Atlanta, where you have a strong middle and upper class of African Americans, of white folks, of Hispanics, of Vietnamese,
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My gut feeling right now is that we'll settle in at 250,000 people over the next three to six months and then we'll start to ramp up over time to the half- million we had before and maybe exceed, ... I imagine building a city so original, so unique that everybody's going to want to come.
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What I'm trying to figure out is, should we bypass all the political stuff -- you know, these people jumping up and down every time we propose something -- and just go straight to the people,
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Yesterday the broken city was filled with the noise of Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters and its still partly flooded highways were filled with rescue crews in flat-bottomed boats, searching those sections of the city still believed to have people living in them. The sounds of New Orleans were jazz, people laughing, people eating a good meal, ... And now the sounds of New Orleans are helicopters and army vehicles. This is almost surreal.
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But we have a very volatile situation. There's lots of oil on the water, gas leaks where it's bubbling up, and there's fire on top.
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