Now is not the time to return to the city, |
Now is the time to think outside the box. ... Now is the time to think about a bold vision for a cash-strapped city. We need solutions. |
Now, with a single step, city departments, businesses and private citizens can access a tool that will help speed the rebuilding of New Orleans into a better, safer and stronger city. |
Numbers so far are relatively minor as compared to the dire projections of 10,000. |
Once the storm gets in the Gulf of Mexico, there's no telling where it's going to go, |
once we can get a few businesses open. |
Once we get people back, we'll do a hard assessment of what our security needs are, |
Once we get the 3,000 National Guardsmen here, we're locking this place down, ... It's really difficult because my opinion of the looting is it started with people running out of food, and you can't really argue with that too much. Then it escalated to this kind of mass chaos where people are taking electronic stuff and all that. |
Our city is in a state of devastation, ... we probably have 80 percent of our city under water. |
Our concern is a storm surge. We really can't take anything more than about a 6 or 7 foot storm surge, |
Our levee systems are still in a very weak condition, ... Any type of storm that hits us will put ... us into harm's way. |
Our levee systems are still in a very weak condition, our pumping stations are still not at full capacity and any type of storm that heads this way and hits us will put the east bank of Orleans Parish in very significant harm's way, so I'm encouraging everyone to leave, |
Our re-entry plan has gone very smoothly, |
Our strategy is to re-populate the city in the safest areas first, ... to get enough critical mass going so that the economics of the city starts to flow. |
Over the next 12 to 15 hours, water will rise on the east bank of New Orleans to the levels where some sections of the city which are dry now could see nine or 10 feet (more than three meters) of water, |