So you think that the ground will be toxic for years?  Really?  Really?  

Odd, that.

Edit: If you've ever been in the French Quarter, you know that the ground has always been pretty toxic.  Not a good place to skin your knee.  I'm not sure the toxic ground argument is going to hold much water here (no pun intended).

OK well the news said it was toxic, I assume they were talking about being freshly toxified, if they were talking about 100's of years of toxicity  who knows ... I never went to French quarter and skinned my knew ... so its always toxic ... now here is another question then ... are these people nuts ... why do they want to live in that toxic ground (especially if its been toxic for a loooong time ... ) BTW french quarter wasn't under water now right ...
Yea the only home they knew ... doesn't hold water (no pun here) ... now they have been out and are going to have to live outside NO for atleast a few months ... maybe that will open their eyes a bit to the rest of the world ... I love charlotte Its my favorite place that I have seen/lived in so far (with a small exception to Sacramento CA in the mid 90's) but I lost my house here and i will not have any second thought about moving to where I get the best deal ... Just because you dont know somethign doesn't mean its bad. Lots of great places to live just in the great South east ... forget south west ... or the rest of the US.
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When it floods, even in Charlotte, the sewers back up because they become flooded too.  That is what happened.  It isn't exactly Nuke 'em High in NO.  What they've got is some water with E. Coli in it.  When it goes away, the threat should be over.  

But yeah, Bourbon Street was pretty nasty sometimes, but very, very entertaining.  And I was mugged there and I still love it.

I'm glad it isn't flooded, if in fact it isn't.

Water with e coli ... is that it ... I thought they flooded a bunch of trash dumps and cemetries and various other chemical dumps and manufacturing/storing places and all of that has washed into the water and that was what was refered to as toxic soup ...
In charlotte as well as in any other modern city if it floods we'd have storm drains back up, very different from sewers as they have pointed out to us repeatedly. The seweage system is pretty much air tight if you believe the schpeel ... so whatever you do storm water and sewage wont mix ... OK whatever ...
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We have had a rash of sewer back ups here due to flooding.  Most houses weren't built with back flow valves.  If there is a breach in the sewer system, it will back up, which can be a nasty deal.
Storm water can infiltrate a sewer system and cause a back flow, so don't believe the hype.  You could be right about the chemicals though.
I dunno.

Yea who ever will belieive the contractors. They dont have the concern to drop a $2.99 temp compensating valve in the shower so when someone flushed you dont get cooked in the shower ... The morons smugly say you can install it ... yea right ass hole, you need to yank out the plumbing in the whole house to do so, cos you need to drop it in before the cold line splits off for the flush ...
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Quote from: seshadri_srinathnow here is another question then ... are these people nuts ... why do they want to live in that toxic ground (especially if its been toxic for a loooong time ... ) BTW french quarter wasn't under water now right ...
Yea the only home they knew ... doesn't hold water (no pun here) ...Just because you dont know somethign doesn't mean its bad. Lots of great places to live just in the great South east ... forget south west ... or the rest of the US.

Being dirt poor and owning almost nothing is different from the middle-class mentality of, well, if it doesn't work here, we'll go elsewhere! Even my middle-class mentality says to me, "if a big, phat earthquake leveled California, I'd be first in line to come back." Why? Cuz I love California. I can't imagine living anywhere else. Yes, the big ol' mansions that you can buy in other states for what we pay for a bathroom here sounds attractive, but I haven't left yet! I won't even bother addressing the question of whether or not I'm nutz, cuz we all know the answer to THAT. :P:P

You're sorta missing the point ... but let me modify your scenario for this situation ...
Ok lets start with what you said - CA has been hit by an earthquake, but instead of everyhting levelled, only the poor areas have been levelled, and the mansions and huge palaces are still left intact, with people still living in them wihtout a hair on their head ruffled, and what the earth quake also did other than kill 1000's (ok 100's) of the poor, it also levelled or severely crippled the businesses that we need to work for. It also caused an up heaval of the ocean floor in the bay and ended up pulling the nuclear waste we dumped there in the 60's and 70's in concrete barrels, and sprayed it all over the place. Through all of this you and your SO managed to load up your cars with all your meagre lifes possessions and the kids and the dog and the cat and the GS and all of the pruple you can find (why not, its just going to get crushed in the earthquake anyway) ... and managed to sit in traffic for hours (isn't that normal for CA    ... ) spend 1000's in gas and managed to get into the safety of Nevada and managed to drive yourself into lets say Colorado. then 2-3 weeks later they say OK all this is gone, and basically your whole city block and for 100's of blocks all around its basically rubble, and smimming in toxic crap ... but you can go back.
OK now what are you thinking ...
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Quote from: seshadri_srinathThrough all of this you and your SO managed to load up your cars with all your meagre lifes possessions and the kids and the dog and the cat and the GS and all of the pruple you can find (why not, its just going to get crushed in the earthquake anyway) ... crap ... but you can go back.OK now what are you thinking ...

Three things:

1. Why'd you pack up all that purple LAST??  
2. How soon can I go home!???  
3. Can't we leave the kids behind and pack more purple  :lol:

OK you can go home now ... but as soon as you do ... the purple crap will turn kawasaki green, melt and run into a puddle and glow in the dark ... from all the radioactivity ...  :lol:  ...
You know - What is worse than smog ... radioactive smog ...
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Quote from: seshadri_srinaththe purple crap will turn kawasaki green, melt and run into a puddle and glow .

This is sooo cruel...even for YOU!    

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Ha ha ... you're the one that wanted to go back to a toxic wasteland ... and evidently you wanted the kids to sit in that radio active dump ... so I decided to hit you where it might hurt ... cos kids sure weren't gonna do it ...
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Heck no....I'd park the kids there myself.  :nana:

But don't be messin' with my purple!! That's just cruel! Evil!! Mean!!!  :lol:

Do things like this, and you'll spend eternity in a purgatory of PURPLE!  

It didn't take long for you to get mean again after your dear wife and child returned home!  

:lol:  :kiss:

Oh man...I *like* that: PURGATORY of PURPLE!! Muahahaha!

You are one strange puppy aren't ya ... its just a freaking bike ... honestly ... its not even a bike, its just a color ... $3 worth of paint and even if you paid someone to do it, maybe $100 in labor can make anyhting purple ... Its just a pile of chemicals ... its not a person, its not even an animal. It has no feelings, it has no emotions its a object ... I love my bikes ... GS, eli, virago, KZ ... all of it, but pay me for it and take it, and If you were going to crush it ... I'd like ring side seats and a video camera ... its just a clump of metal, rubber, plastic and chemicals ... Heck pay me for the KZ (BTW it has a bunch of purple comming to think of it) and I will personally do a webcast of it being tossed out a 3rd story window, or being crushed in the metal press at the scrap yard, or it getting burnt and melted in the furnace ... whatever floats your boat ...
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Quote from: seshadri_srinathYou are one strange puppy aren't ya ... its just a freaking bike ...

Spoken like a true guy!    

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Quote from: seshadri_srinathYou are one strange puppy aren't ya ... its just a freaking bike ...

Spoken like a true guy!    

What ... guys aren't detached when it comes to their stuff ... they get super attached ... just see the hordes of Harley riders ... women while they do get attached to things ... mechanical widgets usually are pretty low in their list ... a woman will cry over a set of shoes more than she'll cry over a car (as long as the $$ aspect is covered) ... I could care less about either ... it its not a living thing ... pay me for it and I dont care ...
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Quote from: seshadri_srinathWhat ... guys aren't detached when it comes to their stuff ... they get super attached ... just see the hordes of Harley riders ... women while they do get attached to things ... mechanical widgets usually are pretty low in their list ... a woman will cry over a set of shoes more than she'll cry over a car (as long as the $$ aspect is covered) ... I could care less about either ... it its not a living thing ... pay me for it and I dont care

Blech. Shoes? All one needs is a pair of black shoes and a pair of white shoes. When they wear out, throw them out. Costs more than $20? Not worth it.

Now....a PURPLE bike....priceless!  

My favorite color is blue ... and if I got enough $$ to have anyhting I like painted the blue I like, no problem I'll personally scrape it off and take a video of it ... Now for purple :lol:  ... I'd do it for free ...  :lol:
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