Gustav

[Jeanie]

Apparently they are evacuating New Orleans. Sounds like it's going to be a rough one. Any thoughts or flashbacks, Jon? God, I can't even imagine what must be going through your mind as you are forced to leave your home.

P.S. Gustav is a gay name for a hurricane!

[Hunter Bones]

I think it's about time they turned New Orleans into an underground military base and stop letting people live there.

It's like resetting bowling pins.

[the unlucky platypus]

two bottles of korbel, a half bottle of absythe, and a pitcher of beer.

i miss home.

and fuck you, hunter.

[Sonic Libido]

I will have no sympathy if anyone in new orleans dies from gustav…. I mean, seriously….. they should have learned the first time……

kind of a "Fool me once" situation

[Desensitized]

Why don't you just bomb it already?

Doesn't that work fine enough for every other thing you hate?

[Hunter Bones]

[quote1220290877=the unlucky platypus]
two bottles of korbel, a half bottle of absythe, and a pitcher of beer.

i miss home.

and fuck you, hunter.
[/quote1220290877]

I'm just saying I don't understand why people would want to live in an area that keeps getting destroyed by nature. There's a reason people don't live in extreme climates. They're uninhabitable. It's not with the expense and the hassle to keep having to rebuild a city that will inevitably be torn apart again.

[Sonic Libido]

[quote1220291900=Hunter Bones]
[quote1220290877=the unlucky platypus]
two bottles of korbel, a half bottle of absythe, and a pitcher of beer.

i miss home.

and fuck you, hunter.
[/quote1220290877]

I'm just saying I don't understand why people would want to live in an area that keeps getting destroyed by nature. There's a reason people don't live in extreme climates. They're uninhabitable. It's not with the expense and the hassle to keep having to rebuild a city that will inevitably be torn apart again.
[/quote1220291900]

I totally agree with hunter

[the unlucky platypus]

[quote1220296204=Hunter Bones]
[quote1220290877=the unlucky platypus]
two bottles of korbel, a half bottle of absythe, and a pitcher of beer.

i miss home.

and fuck you, hunter.
[/quote1220290877]

I'm just saying I don't understand why people would want to live in an area that keeps getting destroyed by nature. There's a reason people don't live in extreme climates. They're uninhabitable. It's not with the expense and the hassle to keep having to rebuild a city that will inevitably be torn apart again.
[/quote1220296204]

extreme climates? that's why people have lived there for a couple hundred years now.

people live in the area because it's their home. i can understand you having no pride in that since you're from this wasteland where there is no real culture other than a fast food/junk food culture but it's a little different where there is an actual identity.

and what the fuck are you talking keep? it was one hurricane. the last major before that was back in 1965 or so with betsy (camille is the popular example but it didn't effect the city as extensively as betsy did).

this hurricane appears to have been media hype and just proof of how little the local government has been doing to ensure the public's safety. preventative measures can be done in terms of building the infrastructure better. it's like saying that because buildings failed in the 1970s in stronger earthquakes that no one should inhabit southern california and that it's a waste of money to keep rebuilding (and let's not forget all the fires too..why the hell is anyone living in this shithole, anyways?)). it's a matter of making the infrastructure up to date and it wasn't before katrina and it still isn't now.

now if you wanna be evenhanded about this, i wanna see you talking the same shit on this area. pull the plug on syphoning water from other states and let this desert become a desert. let the fires consume the land and let the earthquakes shake the buildings to the ground.

[Reel Big Chris]

florida keeps getting fucked up… texas keeps getting fucked up… mississippi keeps getting fucked up… i really could go on. shit, even california keeps getting fucked up. we don't even have seasons here we have "hotter than shit where everything dries up", "hotter than shit where all dried up shit burns to the ground", "torrential downpours where all burned up shit turns into one big-ass mudslide fucking up all hippies in it's way", and "freezing cold where everything resets". so i think to say that new orleans should be shut down for good is shit. i was born there and i plan on going back there soon. so what if it gets annihilated every now and then?

[MAX!]

I was concieved in New Orleans. My mom decided to tell me that after Katrina. I have no idea why the fuck she would think I would want to know that, it really grossed me out.

[Samu]

[quote1220358278=MAX!]
I was concieved in New Orleans. My mom decided to tell me that after Katrina. I have no idea why the fuck she would think I would want to know that, it really grossed me out.
[/quote1220358278]
HAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAA

Did she get into details?

[The Wind]

Oh Max, you never fail to entertain.

[MAX!]

[quote1220373050=Samu]
[quote1220358278=MAX!]
I was concieved in New Orleans. My mom decided to tell me that after Katrina. I have no idea why the fuck she would think I would want to know that, it really grossed me out.
[/quote1220358278]
HAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAA

Did she get into details?
[/quote1220373050]

No, thank god she didn't, I think I would have jumped out of the nearest window if she started to.

[Desensitized]

Your parents really like to talk sex with you, huh? First it was your dad and the gay thing, then your mother and where you were conceived.

[MAX!]

Yeah, my family loves to make me feel awkward…
That's probably why I'm such an awkward person.

[Hunter Bones]

[quote1220380984=the unlucky platypus]
[quote1220296204=Hunter Bones]
[quote1220290877=the unlucky platypus]
two bottles of korbel, a half bottle of absythe, and a pitcher of beer.

i miss home.

and fuck you, hunter.
[/quote1220290877]

I'm just saying I don't understand why people would want to live in an area that keeps getting destroyed by nature. There's a reason people don't live in extreme climates. They're uninhabitable. It's not with the expense and the hassle to keep having to rebuild a city that will inevitably be torn apart again.
[/quote1220296204]

extreme climates? that's why people have lived there for a couple hundred years now.

people live in the area because it's their home. i can understand you having no pride in that since you're from this wasteland where there is no real culture other than a fast food/junk food culture but it's a little different where there is an actual identity.

and what the fuck are you talking keep? it was one hurricane. the last major before that was back in 1965 or so with betsy (camille is the popular example but it didn't effect the city as extensively as betsy did).

this hurricane appears to have been media hype and just proof of how little the local government has been doing to ensure the public's safety. preventative measures can be done in terms of building the infrastructure better. it's like saying that because buildings failed in the 1970s in stronger earthquakes that no one should inhabit southern california and that it's a waste of money to keep rebuilding (and let's not forget all the fires too..why the hell is anyone living in this shithole, anyways?)). it's a matter of making the infrastructure up to date and it wasn't before katrina and it still isn't now.

now if you wanna be evenhanded about this, i wanna see you talking the same shit on this area. pull the plug on syphoning water from other states and let this desert become a desert. let the fires consume the land and let the earthquakes shake the buildings to the ground.
[/quote1220380984]

I agree. I have no idea why people live in burn areas and mudslide areas. When the La Conchita mudslide happened, there was a benefit concert for them by the Mad Caddies. I wanted to go, but I didn't want to pay for it. Luckily I got in free.

The reason I'm still in CA is because I haven't had the opportunity to leave yet, but as soon as I can, I plan to.

[the unlucky platypus]

[quote1220382397=MAX!]
[quote1220373050=Samu]
[quote1220358278=MAX!]
I was concieved in New Orleans. My mom decided to tell me that after Katrina. I have no idea why the fuck she would think I would want to know that, it really grossed me out.
[/quote1220358278]
HAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAA

Did she get into details?
[/quote1220373050]

No, thank god she didn't, I think I would have jumped out of the nearest window if she started to.
[/quote1220382397]

considering it was new orleans, it was probably very drunk and very sloppy and sweaty.

[Jeanie]

I don't know where you're going to go Hunter. Just about everywhere has some shitty extreme climate or natural disaster just waiting to strike. Earthquakes, fires, floods, tornados, monsoons, tsunamis, ice storms, sand storms, typhoons, to name a few.

And Jon, CA has plenty of culture if look around. Obviously different and more recent than New Orleans, but culture just the same. There are historic missions all the way from Sonoma to San Diego. The city of Solvang is like stepping in to an old Dutch village. Even in L.A. the classic Old Hollywood theaters like the Pantages, the Shrine Auditorium, the Wiltern, Grauman's Chinese Theater were all built in the 20's and 30's and have great history behind them. The Hollywood Forever Cemetary has the graves of Rudolph Valentino, Jayne Mansfield, Bugsy Siegel, Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone, (and my Aunt Ella !lol ) just to name a very few. Not to mention the surf culture of my hometown, Huntington Beach.

Now, back to the original topic. I think the powers that be did a great job getting everyone out of the city. Even though the storm didn't turn out to be as bad as expected, it seemed as if things went a lot more smoothly this time around! I especially liked that this time they had a plan in place to let people evacuate to shelters and be reunited with their pets. I sure as hell wouldn't leave my cat if there was a huge hurricane coming! !lol

And thanks for the comic relief MAX! I agree with Jon, you probably don't want to know the sloppy, drunk details!

[MAX!]

[quote1220473608=the unlucky platypus]
[quote1220382397=MAX!]
[quote1220373050=Samu]
[quote1220358278=MAX!]
I was concieved in New Orleans. My mom decided to tell me that after Katrina. I have no idea why the fuck she would think I would want to know that, it really grossed me out.
[/quote1220358278]
HAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAA

Did she get into details?
[/quote1220373050]

No, thank god she didn't, I think I would have jumped out of the nearest window if she started to.
[/quote1220382397]

considering it was new orleans, it was probably very drunk and very sloppy and sweaty.
[/quote1220473608]

thanks for that…

[Super Sonic]

To be fair, it probably would have been anyway. Well… that's my experience of Max's mam anyway.

[Punk Rock Karl]

[quote1220494388=MAX!]
Yeah, my family loves to make me feel awkward…
That's probably why I'm such an awkward person.
[/quote1220494388]

At least you have a home amongst the clinically insane!

[MAX!]

yep

[madamadam]

I don't know why anyone lives anywhere in America.

The world should team up to bomb those fuckers off the map is what I say.

[the unlucky platypus]

flying in on saturday. hopefully curfew will be lifted by then.

[Jeanie]

Are you checking in on family, Jon? I'm interested to know how things are there since the media has pretty much abandoned it as a topic.

[the unlucky platypus]

flying in tomorrow morning and should be arriving by around 4pm central.

i'll try to take some pictures if anything's deemed worth taking.

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