what is going on in New Orleans? is there anybody living there?

Question

why do we help other countries rebuild....and then we let one of cities sit in shambles. what is happening with New Orleans?

Answer 1

yea i'm live here and its getting back to normal thier is a least one murder a day on the news, people need to stop the killing or nobody is going to want to visit our city

Answer 2

The cities population before the storm was about 450,000 and is currently about 280,000 in my understanding. And I agree with your statement that the government is spending a lot more money fighting other peoples wars than rebuilding our own country. Although the city of new orleans has come back in full force in the tourism areas and is back in full force. They have had major conventions returning, record crowds for mardi gras, jazz fest and french quarter festival. But there are portions of the city and many of the surrounding area that is still a ways off. New Orleans is a great city though. Come and visit and spend money, the local businesses can use everyones support.

Answer 3

In the downtown area, things are pretty much going on as usual. Tourism is coming back slowly. But other areas of the city are still in the rebuilding process; it is going very slowly because of hassles people are having with their insurance companies about getting paid. Contrary to what Barry said, I don't believe the current population of New Orleans is at 300,000. I think it is much lower than that. Many people have left, and others have decided NOT to come back because of the problems and conditions in some neighborhoods.
However, there are still plenty of other people who WANT to come back but are hampered by lack of funds and scarcity of available affordable housing.
I am a New Orleanian currently living in the Baton Rouge area, and would love to get back to the city, but I do not have the means to do so at present.

Answer 4

i live here. things have improved. the french quarter was up and running almost immediately after katrina. we all have regular garbage pickup now, almost every neighborhood gets mail on a daily basis, the water is safe to drink throughout the city, and those who live here are doing everything they can to get their lives back on track. i think most of the problems we're still facing are problems with politics. the road home program has had some severe difficulties, much of the money the federal government has given us for infastructure(roads, schools, etc...) was redirected to other things by the state government. i don't blame the federal government for not wanting to give us additional aid, the state government is really not holding up their end of the bargain.

i'm not a new orleans native, and i don't really understand the inner working of this city. the way many things are done absoultely baffle me(including jefferson and nagin's re-elections) it's different to say the least. but i have to say the people here amaze me. there is nowhere else in the country that people would suffer the difficulties the people here do to stay in a city they love. especially knowing they're not getting all the government help they need and deserve. citizens in any other city would have given up a long time ago.

edit: i'm tired of people dismissing the crime here just because it's "drug related." a three year old who gets shot by a stray bullet doesn't care why the gun was fired. innocent people do die. and no one wants to talk to the police and our over brudened court system keeps releasing these people out on the streets. again, i'm not a native, so maybe this is just my lack of understanding of the local ways, but to me this is unacceptable.

Answer 5

I visited New Orleans last Summer and there are people living there but they are still fixing houses and stores, some houses are COMPLETELY messed up and I do not think that anyone can fix it so they will probably brake them down. It was so so so so so heart breaking when I saw my Grand parents old house. Because when I was younger the house was nice, clean, had a garden and was full of some of the best memories in my life, and now all that is gone. Soon it will almost be the same as before the Hurricane.

Answer 6

There is a genuine, heart-felt effort to help NOLA recover from Katrina's wrath. But the bottom line is, NO U.S. city has ever seen the natural disaster destruction that New Orleans saw and faces nearly three years in Kat's aftermath.

Sadly, the pricetag for reconstruction is far more than the heartfelt sympathies of those worldwide. Still, efforts are being made to help--but it really is a tragic matter of economics.

It's going to take YEARS of focused rebuild efforts till NOLA sees any form of positive recovery. Even then, it's tourist infrastructure as it NOW stands, will eventually have to be re-drawn.....and will itself be a memory years ahead from now....and I feel sacrifices to long held cultural strongholds will have to be let go, if NOLA is to ever fully recover.

Until then, those sent away from Louisiana due to Katrina's wrath have no other recourse but to make a new home where they now reside---because there's NO $$$$ to rebuild their smashed uninsured homes.

Violent drug thug criminals, killing each other like open deer season each night are NOT helping NOLA rebuild; they need to get back OUT of Louisiana yesterday. NOLA and Louisiana in general is a shell of what it was before Katrina; why they seek to make drug turf reclaims makes NO sense and is a waste of their time and $$$$.....and lives as well.

Answer 7

It's really sad. In East N.O., there are vacant MALLS, vacant big-box stores, entire neighborhoods without a grocery store or even a gas station. It's true, many people won't return, their homes are irreparable, and many people did not have flood insurance, so they are, you know, SOL. People aren't convinced that it's ever going to get fixed, and people from outside aren't going to take a chance. I honestly would never have moved south had I not received a very lucrative scholarship to a university in NOLA. There are areas where it is relatively close to what it was, but those are mostly tourist areas. You have to see it for your own eyes; it's very sad.

Answer 8

Yeahhh, people live here. Life would be better if you and your friends came to visit us and spent your tourist dollars here! You can still have a blast NOW or during Mardi Gras or Jazz Fest.

You're right. Why does our government help other countries while this great city is ignored!? It's criminal.

Answer 9

People are living there, but many people decided not to return. I live two hours from New Orleans and they are still paying people ten dollars an hour to work at taco bell, so I imagine that there is a lot less people. From what I understand though the crime has steady risen and is almost the same as what it was before.
I think people forget what a huge job it is to get things back to normal, and people are disagreeing on whether to rebuild the ninth ward again. Many people who don't live around here don't understand what the ninth ward was like. Also, New Orleans isn't the only place that was devastated that year. My husband's parents lost their home in Rita, as well as many of their neighbors. The problem is deeper than many people think. Plus, our govenor is NOT doing her job, so that makes it worse.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

I lived there at the time of Katrina. I tried to return, but I just got so sick of all the politics and hoops I ma suppose to jump through to rebuild my home. I have just given up. I put my home on the market. I got a contract the first day, for a very good price. I am now waiting to go to closing. So as some will not return, new people will move in. I firmly believe that N.O. will only get better and better every year, but I am just not willing to wait it out.