I don't think it was a case of race playing a part, just the simple fact FEMA thought the storm would be worse and kill most of those people waiting at the convention center.
Remember the sunday night as Katrina was rolling in, FEMA was saying they thought 50,000 people would die.
The Spurs are going to do their part with the game against the Heat. Do they have to be in every game? There is only so many positions.
And i seriously doubt it was officially an African American only game. Um o black people make up most of the NBA rosters.
I'm not sure how it was billed but toward/at the end of the game they made a reference to it being an African-American effort. I remember thinking that the reference was strange but I only caught the tail end of the game.
Forum poster j-6 posted this prior to Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast. It is an article written a year ago regarding Hurricane Ivan's potential to destroy New Orleans.
http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthre...493#post457493
I ripped this off of another board...it's an article in the Atlanta Journal-Cons ution from last year about Hurricane Ivan. Same premise, however.
Direct hit by Ivan could submerge New Orleans tree-top deep
NEW ORLEANS — The worst-case scenario for New Orleans — a direct strike by a full-strength Hurricane Ivan — could submerge much of this historic city treetop-deep in a stew of sewage, industrial chemicals and fire ants, and the inundation could last for weeks, experts say.
If the storm were strong enough, Ivan could drive water over the tops of the levees that protect the city from the Mississippi River and vast Lake Pontchartrain. And with the city sitting in a saucer-shaped depression that dips as much as 9 feet below sea level, there would be nowhere for all that water to drain.
Even in the best of times, New Orleans depends on a network of canals and huge pumps to keep water from ac ulating inside the basin.
"Those folks who remain, should the city flood, would be exposed to all kinds of nightmares from buildings falling apart to floating in the water having nowhere to go," Ivor van Heerden, director of Louisiana State University's Hurricane Public Health Center, said Tuesday.LSU's hurricane experts have spent years developing computer models and taking surveys to predict what might happen.
The surveys predict that about 300,000 of the 1.6 million people living in the metropolitan area would risk staying.
The computer models show a hurricane with a wind speed of around 120 mph or more — hitting just west of New Orleans so its counterclockwise rotation could hurl the strongest surf and wind directly into the city — would push a storm surge from the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain over the city's levees. Ivan had sustained wind of 140 mph Tuesday.
New Orleans would be under about 20 feet of water, higher than the roofs of many of the city's homes.
Besides collecting standard household and business garbage and chemicals, the flood would flow through chemical plants in the area, "so there's the potential of pretty severe contamination," van Heerden said.
Severe flooding in area bayous also forces out wildlife, including poisonous snakes and stinging fire ants, which sometimes gather in floating balls carried by the current.
A rescue of people who stayed behind would be among the world's biggest since 1940, when Allied forces and civilian volunteers during World War II rescued mostly British soldiers from Dunkirk, France, and carried them across the English Channel, van Heerden predicted.
Much of the city would be under water for weeks. And even after the river and Lake Pontchartrain receded, the levees could trap water above sea level, meaning the Army Corps of Engineers would have to cut the levees to let the water out.
"The real big problem is the water from sea level on down because it will have to be pumped and restoring the pumps and getting them back into action could take a considerable amount of time," said John Hall, the Corps' spokesman in New Orleans.
Hall spoke from his home — 6 feet below sea level — as he prepared to flee the city himself. The Corps' local staff was being relocated 166 miles north to Vicksburg, Miss.
New Orleans was on the far western edge of the Gulf Coast region threatened by Ivan, and forecasters said Tuesday that the hurricane appeared to moving toward a track farther east, along the Mississippi coast.
If the eye came ashore east of the city, van Heerden said, New Orleans would be on the low side of the storm surge and would not likely have catastrophic flooding.
The worst storm in recent decades to hit New Orleans was Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which submerged parts of the city in water 7-feet deep and was blamed for 74 deaths in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. That storm was a Category 3, weaker than Ivan is expected to be.
Even if New Orleans escapes this time, van Heerden said, it will remain vulnerable until the federal and state governments act to restore the coastal wetlands that should act as a buffer against storms coming in from the Gulf.
Louisiana has lost about a half million acres of coast to erosion since 1930 because the Mississippi River is so corralled by levees that it can dump sediment only at its mouth, and that allows waves from the Gulf to chop away at the rest of the coastline.
"My fear is, if this storm passes (without a major disaster), everybody forgets about it until next year, when it could be even worse because we'll have even less wetlands," van Heerden said.
Last edited by Solid D; 09-13-2005 at 02:34 AM.
Tony is African AMERICAN? How very myopic of you.Was it officially an African American game? By the way, Tony is definitely in that category, though he's in France right now.
Exactly!!! How would you have felt if Duncan twisted one of his ankles in that meaningless outting? OUCH!!! They could have raised more money if they all would've just signed autographs for donations at the stadium for 3 or 4 hours.
Tony is Halfrican not African.
How do you know Derek fisher called and was turned out?
I was listening to the Jim Rome show while driving the other day and he was interviewing Kenny Smith about this event. Kenny said he was called by Derek Fisher to see if he had room for another player. Kenny said he had hit his limit on players but he could come in as an assistant coach. Supposely Fish agreed and wanted to help in any way he could.
Pop wouldn't let the guys go cause he knew no defense would be played. = )
Kenny really dislikes the following:
The Spurs
Euro players
The NBA had him mentoring new players a few years back, and he actually told them (the black players. he wouldn't talk to the white players) that their jobs were being taken by Euros in some Euro marketing program by David Stern.
Really? Sounds more like Stephen A Smith.
Sounds like Kenny thinks the NBA is UnEqual Opportunity Employer, a Black Employment Agency.
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