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I agree New Orleans must be re-inhabited, to not do so would be absoulute lunacy.  To expect the other cities of Louisiana too take in 500,000+ people is asking way to much of them.  New Orleans was devistated - but Im going to play the optimist and say that there are still many homes and structures not nearly as affected by flood waters as some of the poorer wards.

Westguy - Im not sure I see where your going.  Are you saying that New Orleans should be abandoned?  Or are you refering to something else?

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Well some good will come out of it and that will be it will provide allot of jobs in construction not only for the people of Louisiana but for people from other states as well. It will be a group effort from all over the United States. To get the town backup. If enough people work on it anything is possiable. Maybe if the town was out in the sticks I say yeah it would be ok to abandon it. But my god this is a major city and their is a major interstate that runs through that major city. Not fixing anything would hurt Houston transportation out of the state and into the state. Up here we have notice that some shipments are 4 to 5 days behind. At are local walmart. I think for anybody to think to not rebuild is nothing short of nuts. Yes it might take several years to get it back to what it somewhat use to be. But it wont take nearly that long for it to come back to where the city is atleast operational.

It may well be that many residents in New Orleans were there because they have been there forever and never had the ways and means to live elsewhere.

Baton Rouge is now the largest city in Louisiana. Why don

Well putting them in apartments at this point in time will not fix the problem and will just add onto and compound the situation into bigger problems. Because now you will have everybody displaced all over Texas. We need to try to keep everybody in a centralized location for now.

The fact is The only people that are going to be able to rebuild the city are the people that use to live in the city.

Another fact is Lets get one thing straight as Texans its not are job to take on Louisiana

Yes While Texas has done a great job on housing the refugee's in are vacant domes and arena's its not fair to them or us if they remain there for a long extended period of time. The goal is to get them back to New Orleans. Because in the end known of those people will be able to get on their feet if they don

In order for New Orleans to ever get back on its feet again.

I have studied quite a few years in the past about how nations rebuild from natural disasters. A couple of things need to happen.

Here's the facts

1. I-10 needs to get fix. Without I-10 no rebuilding can occur.

2. They need to fix the flood problem and make major modifications to the levees and walls for it to withstand much stronger hurricanes

3. They need to start making make shift shelters around the city running on full back up generators and have a supply line of fuel to keep the generators working.

4. After they get the make shift shelters up they need to start slowly moving people out of the astrodome and other places and back into the make shift shelters in LA. Where they are now does not help them in the long run. Eventually they will be all just sitting idle. Waiting to go back to new Orleans to get their feet on the ground and collect what little they have that survive the storm.

5. Get central electricity restored to the most important areas of the city and to the make shift shelters.

6. Have earth movers come in and start clearing the lots of land for rebuilding houses.

7. Have construction workers come in from all parts of the U.S to start constructing new homes and repairing roads.

8. Banks need to be rebuild or at temp locations so people will have some access to their accounts.

9. Wal-marts need to be the first places that need to be repaired and reopen.

10. At the temp shelters have insurance adjusters come in set up a booth and have the people who have insurance get their insurance money. Those who don

JWR has not posted since the storm hit.  His last post was Friday, August 26th.

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Lets hope he posts again soon or we find out if he's still ok. Does he have a hotmail account or yahoo account??????

Well from what I heard housing them in the Astrodome and now the Reunion Arena in Dallas. Will be temporary until New Orleans can get some form of make shift shelters going down their after they fix the flooding problem. So people can get their lifes back to normal. And start the process of rebuilding. Whether they choose to stay here or not is up to them. Being the way that so many people from New Orleans love New Orleans people will probably go back to rebuild. I think the most important thing to do after they fix the flooding problem is rebuild I-10 if I-10 dosent get fix then you might as well forget rebuilding.

Actually I heard on the news that they will have access to computers and the internet inside the astrodome. So they might just read it.

Thanks for the context.  It's good to hear a different perspective on these things.

While I'm glad that Fort Worth's occupancy rate is so high, I'd be disappointed to see an office or residential tower go up there.  I'd rather see a medium-sized Art Deco style building.  Save the glass and glitter for Dallas.  Let Fort Worth do its own thing.  I only visited Fort Worth once, but really loved the feel of its downtown.

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Well I will differ on you a little bit their. Fort Worth can easly handle more glass and glitter. To me no matter what Fort Worth does it will always be Fort Worth. Nice, Clean, Friendly, And the cops that patrol the streets on bikes are really awesome. One help me carry my bags to the car. The nightlife is great especially on Friday and Saturday. On weekdays it can be a little low. If any we need more hotels Downtown. Make the hotel high enough so that you can see the city and the freeway. Like the Wyndham in Arlington. One thing is for sure. What ever Fort Worth does I will in the end probably like. Actually the tornado was probably a good thing for Fort Worth. Because before the tornado things were starting to stagnate in Fort Worth. After the tornado things have really pick up in Downtown. Things are moving forward in Fort Worth.

A couple of things its really sad that its gonna be torn down. But if it must. All I can say is Fort Worth does need some more parking in the downtown area. The parking we do have as of now is pretty tight. In some space lots where almost door to door. Or bumper to bumper. I hate to see it go. I would rather have it stay up versus being torn down. That would be a great place for a hotel tower.

I have a couple, but they're on my off-line storage.  Somehow I never remember to retrieve them when I go.  I'll try to make more of an effort next time.

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Please Do!!!!!

Its been talk about before. Does anybody have any Day to Night time lapse videos. I think some videos in here would spice things up a bit. I think it would be neat if Somebody could film a time lapse of the skyline going from day to dusk to night. That would be so cool.

I used to go to the new courthouse when I still lived up there.

It looks like it's coming from the west to me. The BOA tower gives it away, going by its position in the skyline relative to the other notable towers.

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Anybody from Dallas been in this area before. I would love to get some shots at night of this.

ok where is this picture taken at. I have been around Dallas allot and cannot spot and area where you can park right off the freeway like that. Somebody be so kind to tell me exactly where this picture was taken??????????

where is this

Has anybody seen any work begin on 121. You hear about it and hear about it and all these things get approved but nothing happens. When is construction ever going to begin. I mean it takes Dallas Fort Worth 10 years to get a freeway built it takes Houston 6 months go figure.