2007-02-05 08:33:56 · 14 answers · asked by michelle 2 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ New Orleans
I went to New Orleans and worked with Habitat for Humanity. I would do it again in a heartbeat! Actually fell so much in love with New Orleans I ended up buying a house there! I know that there are stories and stuff about how it is so bad there right now, but I didn't see any of it and I have been there 6xs since Katrina. If you go work with a larger charity I think you will be great!
2007-02-05 11:11:29 · answer #1 · answered by blondie60657 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If it was your city... what would you do?
If YOUR family lived there for generations and the only home you've ever known (that was, no doubt, handed down to you after your grandparents died) was destroyed and all the taxes you've paid and the government that you voted into office took the disaster with a grain of salt, would you carry on?
The people that sit there and say that New Orleans needs to be "flushed" or that it needed a "cleansing", you haven't provided an iota of evidence to back up your filth.
New Orleans needed a cleansing? Did you feel safer walking the streets pre-Katrina or post-Katrina? Was it cleaner and prettier before or after the storm?
I love New Orleans. The elevation in crime, the shrapnel, and the government's neglect can never ruin this city for me. Even if was three-fold what it is now.
America lacks vitality. America lacks compassion and understanding for the race of humanity. I walked down Esplanade Ave. the other day and an old man ran up to me and gave me a flower. He said he saw me smile and it "made his day".
Who does that?
No one.
Flush New Orleans. Bulldoze it back to the Mississippi. Purge it of it's filth.
America will lose the best and most charismatic city that it has ever had.
And only your trash talk will be to blame.
2007-02-09 05:13:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I burned a week's vacation helping clean up the New Orleans Baptist Seminary last November, does that count?
2007-02-05 08:42:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I let a family of 7 live in my rent house FREE and 4 months later they moved out in the middle of the night with MY furniture plus a $700 outdoor stove. I have no clue where they are.
2007-02-05 08:58:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've given to various relief organizations, and I've made a commitment to return as a tourist to one of my favorite cities in the world. Hopefully that can help out the local economy.
2007-02-06 04:40:30 · answer #5 · answered by dmb 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would try to get people to consider making their homes on old coal barges. If the town gets flooded, the barges would float until the water goes down. So no damage, no loss of life, no costly and impossible repairs to the levee system.
2007-02-05 08:39:19 · answer #6 · answered by regerugged 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Go there and spend money. We bought a time share there 3 years ago and went back this October. Holloween on Bourbon Street, in costume in the parade was a BLAST!!!!!!!!
2007-02-07 16:02:32 · answer #7 · answered by Michael B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Support tourism....many of the great historical sites, restaurants, and live music venues are up and running, and as good as ever! They just need our continuing support!
2007-02-08 17:57:16 · answer #8 · answered by achelois12 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely I would help. Aside from just giving money I would like to help by doing something...anything.
2007-02-05 08:42:01 · answer #9 · answered by lonestar 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I will help them rebuild from the storm i will start in the low of 9th ward and i'm from NewOrleans.
2007-02-06 05:51:16 · answer #10 · answered by lil boosie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋