The Real Question: Mardi Gras?

[HotPants]

meh

[jakethebake]

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There is more than one place that has Mardi Gras each year. I think Gavelston Texas has one around the same time. Of course its not a fraction of the size of the one in NO

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The Galveston one is pitiful. St. Louis is actually bigger/better than Galveston.

[RacersEdge]

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There is more than one place that has Mardi Gras each year. I think Gavelston Texas has one around the same time. Of course its not a fraction of the size of the one in NO

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That's weird that they decided to have it at the same time. <font color="white"> sarcasm, chief. </font>

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I caught/saw the sarcasm here at the last second..

[Death Valley]

Too Soon?



I know, Im evil [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[peachy]

they will still have mardi gras...without a doubt...the french quarter is fine by comparison and its a huge money maker...the south is used to hurricanes and even after massive ones repairs quickly (within means)

[peachy]

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I honestly hope that you know one of the 10,000+ people that died in the last week. WTF is wrong w/ you? Get your f'ing priorities straight.

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10,000+ people died? isnt the official count at like 100-200?

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One morgue in NO alone is expecting 1,000 to 2,000 people. Entire parishes (counties) SE of NO were wiped out. The toll will EASILY pass 10,000 people. Be prepared to hear upward of 20 to 30,000 dead. I'm 100% serious about this. The death toll as of now in NO is 57 with 10 of those being suicides at the Superdome. Biloxi, MS has already said their toll alone will be 1,000. This is the worst natural disaster in American History. When you think about what these stranded people in NO have had to deal with in the last week blows the mind. 95 to 98 degree temps w/ heat indexes of 115 during the day. No water or food. Houses flooded up to the attics to the point that the only way to live is to float. Anyone w/ a house knows how hot an attic can get during the summer. As bad as NO has it, Mississippi may have had it worse. A 20 to 25 foot storm surge went 10 miles inland. There is an area along the MS coast (50 miles long, 5 miles inland) where the mortality rate of anyone that stayed during the storm was 90% (according to FEMA). The mayor of NO said this morning that 80% of the 430,000 residents didn't evactuate when told. Since the storm passed, 25,000 had been moved out of NO. That still left 50 to 60,000 people to be accounted for. He said best case scenario was that 80% of those were still alive. That leaves about 10,000 dead in NO alone. The Coast Guard has already mentioned the fact that they won't be able to rescue everyone still trapped in houses and to prepare for major loss of life.

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yes...but an offical count wont be in for a LONG time...many of the bodies they r taking in were already dead. For those of us in the south we have seen the Mausoleums that we use because in the past when people were burined in the ground in some places (because of the soil, etc) when it flooded coffins were released and its not a great thing nor sanitary to have these floating about.

In this hurricane many of the Mausoleums were wiped out, so they have to take into consideration that some of these people werent "missing live" people. The death count is still going to be huge...but im sure its inflated and seems high b/c many dont hear/know this

[cnfuzzd]

hey buster...

lets start our own humanitarian effort. We each hit up all the local stores, by tons and tons of bottles of water. Then we treck down to NO with all these bottles and distribute them to those in need in return for them showing us their tits. Obviously this doesnt apply to men or unattractive ladies.

we might even when a nobel.

peace

john nickle

[slickpoppa]

I wonder if Buster is going?

[BluffTHIS!]

Buster,

From what I heard several months ago, you should be able to fund the Mardi Gras all on your own in order to help NO out, with all the money you got from stiffing your affiliates. That's what a Robin Hood does, steals and then uses it to help the needy.