Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Hurricane and Severe Weather Tracking -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (3182)	9/2/2005 4:33:42 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 26020

re: Actually, I hear from panhandle residents that things are in a mess there still.......high attempted suicide rate and people are in despair a year after Ivan. Just imagine what's going to happen with Katrina. We are not only in the first inning... there are "no outs" at this point. This disaster goes on and on and on... years. re: Insurance companies are paying pennies on a dollar and getting away with fraud in the state of FLA. Will anybody even want to rebuild in the "toxic soup" areas of NOLA (I certainly wouldn't)? Do they have to rebuild to get the insurance claim? With the exception of the non-flooded areas, I think NOLA is gone, dead. Make it an extension of the lake... a recreation area? Who is going to want to go back? John

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (3182)	9/2/2005 8:36:18 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26020

Nothing that has ever happened in MS or FLA has even come close to the level of the NO situation. Did you know that half the NO police force has quit? I thought when someone said that yesterday that it was a bit of sarcasm. However, its true.......roughly half have turned in their badges. In addition, today they have estimated that 350K housing units have been damaged or destroyed in the city of NO alone. That's huge. Meanwhile the Corp of Army Engineers had concluded that with the present levee system, they thought NO was 99.5% safe. I guess Katrina hit the .5% fail rate.