PARTY AT MY PLACE

[steffi]

everyone's evacuating new orleans and staying at my house, like, today.

live somewhere else? NO PROBLEM. YOU CAN SLEEP IN THE TUB.

[Awesome McManly]

*is jealous*

[steffi]

tom and his parents are coming up as well as some other family we know from new orleans. uh. yeah.

I am so going to fail my test monday. :C

[strawberry kiss]

Pray for New Orleans. This sounds really bad. Worst case scenario: 18 feet of water in the city and more than a month to pump it out.

[Rory Storm]

Mmm, yeah, I hear it's going to be pretty bad, especially with storm surge and how New Orleans is below sea level. Sucks.

[strawberry kiss]

New Orleans is a bowl. Bowls hold water.

They're having trouble gettin people out. A lot of my friends in New Orleans are staying. Holy shit.

Mandeville is on "the edge of the bowl" and even we have a mandatory evacuation.

[steffi]

yeah, yeah. and it's headed right WEST of new orleans (projected), so the lake's gonna flood...

WOOSH. say hello to atlantis.

[Rory Storm]

Cat, your avatar holds new meaning.

[strawberry kiss]

screwed.

[steffi]

Cat, your avatar holds new meaning.
HEY YEAH. imagine that.

[töm]

that was my first government-mandated evacuation. i feel like a real man now.

i am quickly growing to love new orleans madly. i could just fill up sheets of looseleaf with so many things that strike me as exciting and wonderful. i really damn hope that miss katrina decides to run away from new orleans. please please pretty please. i know someone that goes to this messageboard can make this happen.

anyway. i'm in mississippi. what's up with that?

evacuation plans are wacky. very well organized, but i'm not sure how effective. i'll write a series of essays sometime.

[mike]

I wish Tom was in my house :(

—~

[töm]

man i don't even know where you live. ireland?

[Davey Rootbeer]

C'mon, Ava. let's go to the ol' swimming hole.

THAT USED TO BE BOURBON STREET.

[töm]

it's more of a swimming trough.

"hey this drink's been watered down!! :mad:"

[steffi]

see, new orleans is the best place ever. soon you will learn that hurricanes are part of its charm!

I can't believe it's a five, you guys. new orleans is gonna get bulldozed.

[Sally]

I can't wait to see the news footage of the dumbasses walking down the street in the 5 feet of flood water.

[steffi]

all the old people are staying. :/ ?

[Zimmer~X]

everyone's evacuating new orleans and staying at my house, like, today.

live somewhere else? NO PROBLEM. YOU CAN SLEEP IN THE TUB.

Good for you. What do you want, a cookie? ~*Z?

[steffi]

uh. shut the hell up?

[Zimmer~X]

uh, no?

[Sally]

Haha, banned.

[CSMatt]

that was my first government-mandated evacuation. i feel like a real man now.
What? As dumb as this sounds, the government can't make you leave the city. If someone wants to stay there and get carried away by the hurricane, than that's their decision.

[Davey Rootbeer]

See, there's issues on both sides of that.

One, being that if a person is stupid enough (or has SOME unforseeable reason. or just wants to out of his own pleasure) to wish to stay behind, then by all means, in a normal society, they should be free to do that.

HOWEVER in the event of such emergency with the proliferation of lawsuits resulting in unsatisfactory safety techniques practiced by local forms of government brought upon by the friends and family of the soon-to-be-deceased, the state wishes to avoid any aformentioned lawsuits which may and probably did and have occured over such an issue. Also, whose who weather the damage come out with quite a bit of looting prowress should they survive and come to find no other people around for miles.

WHAT HAPPENS: People who stay behind are arrested/die/get in trouble with the law some other way.

WHAT I THINK: If anyone wants to stay behind in such an event at great risk to their personal self, and not for attempting to scam insurance companies/loot/steal stuff in the heat of the moment, they should sign a form waiving their right to sue infor substandard evacuation policies knowlingly and at great risk to one's personal body and granting the police department, the state government, and everyone else pretty much the right to wonder "what the FUCK are you thinking?"

[AshPhoenix]

I get first dibs on the scuba diving excursion rights.

[Rory Storm]

See, there's issues on both sides of that.

One, being that if a person is stupid enough (or has SOME unforseeable reason. or just wants to out of his own pleasure) to wish to stay behind, then by all means, in a normal society, they should be free to do that.

HOWEVER in the event of such emergency with the proliferation of lawsuits resulting in unsatisfactory safety techniques practiced by local forms of government brought upon by the friends and family of the soon-to-be-deceased, the state wishes to avoid any aformentioned lawsuits which may and probably did and have occured over such an issue. Also, whose who weather the damage come out with quite a bit of looting prowress should they survive and come to find no other people around for miles.

WHAT HAPPENS: People who stay behind are arrested/die/get in trouble with the law some other way.

WHAT I THINK: If anyone wants to stay behind in such an event at great risk to their personal self, and not for attempting to scam insurance companies/loot/steal stuff in the heat of the moment, they should sign a form waiving their right to sue infor substandard evacuation policies knowlingly and at great risk to one's personal body and granting the police department, the state government, and everyone else pretty much the right to wonder "what the FUCK are you thinking?"


I have heard that there are people who are unable to leave. As in, they have no way of getting out of the city. They have no jobs, no car, no gas money. And I doubt they could hitch a ride. It's sad really.

[t3]

Man, 3 times clicking on this thread has caused Safari to crash. And even Firefox is acting sluggish in here. What the hell'd you curse this thread with, Cat?

[Rory Storm]

Voodoo magic. From NEW ORLEANS.

[Sally]

Nonono, it's "nawrlans".

[steffi]

no the hell it isn't, you ignorant losers from elsewhere.

it's pronounced new orlins.

and you shut the fuck up Z. and get the god damn heart I made out of your sig, before I bring some kinda wrath onto you that you've never seen.

[implode]

hey, go to the front door.

[Rory Storm]

no the hell it isn't, you ignorant losers from elsewhere.

it's pronounced new orlins.


Nonono, it's "nawrlans".

Being from Rhode Island I would say something like New Awleens. Because, here, we do not pronounce "r's". Amazing but true.

[Sally]

My...my neighbour from New Orlines calls it nawrlins.

[steffi]

well, he is allowed to say it, but everyone else is required to pronounce it orlins.

[mike]

I pronounce it "New Orleans."

—~

[steffi]

if you mean ea as in... mean, then you are wrong, sir.

[Charnye West]

Remember the time Finite went to Trogg's house?

And the time nobody went to my house?

[t3]

...the time nobody went to my house?


That was the greatest day ever.

[Sally]

Being from Rhode Island I would say something like New Awleens. Because, here, we do not pronounce "r's". Amazing but true.

...Then how the hell do you say your name?

[the minimoose fan]

...Then how the hell do you say your name?
tahts what awesome about new england, you really cant. We do pronouce r's if it is required, other wise, we usually dont.

[~V+]

I call it "new whore-leanz"

[steffi]

and I call you ugly.

[~V+]

shit, struck me deep cat, after all that bickering for me to "lay off of you" I'm surprised you have a rebuttle, oh well, guess thats why you live in new whoreleans.


Also probably why you guys are getting your ass bent over and pounded by the angry hydro-penis of katrina.

[Davey Rootbeer]

your momma never loved you propa', v.

[Rory Storm]

...Then how the hell do you say your name?
Basically it goes like this: If the "r" is at the begining of a word, it is included. Such as Rory, the first "r" is pronounced. If it is in the middle if the word or end, it said as such, pahk=park, cah=car, haw=whore, Roy=Roy, Rory, spock=spark. Now, there are exceptions to this. People here also tend to add on an "r" to some words, as in pronounce the "r" even though it isn't there, as such: Idear=Idea. This is all fine and well, if you're used to it. I am, though I like to pronounce my "r's".

[steffi]

shit, struck me deep cat, after all that bickering for me to "lay off of you" I'm surprised you have a rebuttle, oh well, guess thats why you live in new whoreleans.


Also probably why you guys are getting your ass bent over and pounded by the angry hydro-penis of katrina.
uh. I don't live there at all. I live in memphis.

[deadish]

i want to par-tee
at steffi's.
D:


and i have always been confused about pronouncing new orleans. if you catch me unawares i will say 'nyoo OR-lee-ans'.