Survey: New Orleans Under 190,000 People

[Newsjock]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/10/05/national/a152533D95.DTL

New Orleans (AP) -- Fewer than 190,000 people are living in New Orleans a year after Hurricane Katrina, according to a door-to-door survey released Thursday.

The population of 187,525 is about 41 percent of the 454,000 people estimated to be living in Orleans Parish before the storm hit Aug. 29, 2005.

A spokeswoman for the Louisiana Recovery Authority, Natalie Wyeth, called the results "the definitive, most precise set of numbers we've seen."

[Sacajawea]

1. Have I told you today how much I hate the Bush administration?

What he did to New Orleans is unforgivable.

[Marnieworld]

12. heinous criminal negligence

Sickening. I wish there was a hell for them. Unfortunately for me I don't have the comfort of believing.

[Jim Sagle]

2. Mission accomplished.

Helluva job, George.

You cocksuckin' sonofabitch.

[saigon68]

5. Yes most of the pesky uppity negroes are now gone

A victory for the gentile elements of the city who don't have to put up with their nonsense

[saigon68]

7. Sorry I should have said genteel

Yes I know the difference between gentile and genteel
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Forgive me its late.

[Jim Sagle]

19. As a card-carrying joooooooooo, I am thankful for the clarification.

:D

[corporatemedia]

3. At least they have football now and it's probably easier to get tickets.

[TheWatcher]

4. Yep, as long as Murikans have their Ball Games, Cheeseburgers, Beer, and

American Idol, shucks, the world can't be that bad.

:sarcasm:

Not meant to jab at your post, by any means, but you would be surprised how many sheep think that now that Football is back in The Big Easy, things must be hunky-dory.

[tkmorris]

6. Funny thing is........

How long do you think the Saints football team will remain in a city that has under 200,000 people in it? I'm going to go check some attendance numbers for NO sports teams.

[mopinko]

10. saints are sold out for the season

i bet they end up with a new stadium in disney/nola that is coming anyway.

[AngryAmish]

15. Green Bay has just over 100k

They will be ok.

[Feron]

8. Not surprising

Many of the people I know that still had jobs in New Orleans post-K have either left or want to leave.

To be honest, I don't think Nagin is any better than Bush when it comes to helping the city. I just hope that in spite of everything, the city comes back.

[hedgehog]

9. I'm afraid that Katrina will be for many folk from New Orleans

(black and white) what the potato famine was for my family. It's hell to leave family and culture and go to a new place, but in the long run they'll benefit from economic opportunities they just wouldn't have had at home. I think the power structure in New Orleans was/is so entrenched there was no way up for those on the bottom.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

17. One of the families that moved to my town says they're doing much better

They went through hell, what with being sent to Houston, then having to evacuate again to Arkansas then they saw that our town was taking in people and they came here. After all the suffering, loss and destruction they've been through, they now have seen a long time dream come true for them. They've opened a Cajun restaurant, and it's booming. The heartbreaking part is they didn't get to do it in New Orleans like they originally dreamed.

This is a success story of a sort, but for each one of these I know there are many, many more that are not doing as well as they did before they were trust from their homes.

[mopinko]

11. anybody trying to track down the missing?

i keep waiting to hear how many of the people that went missing were never found. i'm sure no one official is counting, because they don't want to know. but maybe someone else is. big job, tho.

[CountAllVotes]

13. cannot count the dead ones that ended up in Bayou

Once you go in the Bayou, there is no coming out.

Probably many people ended up there and were eaten alive. :(

No reason to look as there is no "evidence" to be found.

:dem: :kick:

[mopinko]

14. that is my ideal way to go.

instantly recycled into a wild thing with big teeth. snap. gone. here again.

[SoCalDem]

16. and all is well in DisNOLAnd

This was a wet dream for republican Louisianans for a long time, and unfortunately for many poor people, Katrina came along and washed them all away..

Only the most determined will ever be "allowed" to return.

If the intention was just to "save them" in their hour of need, they would have been moved to areas within LA, and worked to clean up the mess so they could be moved back to their hometown..

Scattering them willy-nilly all over the country was a clever way to keep the death toll under that of the WTC (spilt-apart families would not even know who had perished for months or maybe ever), and it was a way to keep these people busy...busy trying to even re-connect with each other, and once they located each other, how many would be able to actually reunite.?

Poor people are easily manipulated

[EFerrari]

18. I wonder if this number included the homeless.

I hate BushCo. May they die terrible deaths and go straight to Hell. May there be a Hell.