by * » Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:28 am
<br> I googled for this but came up with nothing afer I found the Chilian article which mentions CNN. Anybody heard anything about this? Are we experiencing another case of <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>XtremeUrbanRenewal</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> a la the WTC? I understand they're trying to keep The Saints in town..... Wasn't it Lily Tomlin who said "no matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up"?<br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr">babelfish translation of Chilian news</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.terra.cl/noticias/noticias.cfm?id_reg=534708&id_cat=303">original in Spanish</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Serious damages by hurricane<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Superdome", pride of New Orleans, the condemned to the demolition[</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->/b]<br><br>According to a spokeswoman of an advisory company of the governor of Luisiana, White Kathleen, mentioned by Cnn, the constructed circular mass 30 years ago in the zone of businesses of the city suffered so many damages that another option is not left that demolerlo.(EFE)<br><br><br><br>WASHINGTON, sept. 6. The stage covered "Superdome" with New Orleans, the first hope of thousands of victims of the hurricane "Katrina", probably will be demolished, today said sources of the Agency of Handling of Emergencias (FEMA) mentioned by the American television network Cnn.<br><br>According to a spokeswoman of an advisory company of the governor of Luisiana, White Kathleen, mentioned by Cnn, the constructed circular mass 30 years ago in the zone of businesses of the city suffered so many damages that another option is not left that to demolish it.<br><br>The stage was the first refuge of thousands of people who did not evacuate the city before Monday of the last week the storm attacked to Luisiana, Misisipi and Alabama and left a wake of destruction and thousands of deads, according to preliminary calculations.<br><br>Hacinado after the passage of the hurricane with thousands of displaced of a city almost totally flooded, the stage underwent the partial destruction of its ceiling, and its interior was scene of robberies, disorders, violations and death.<br><br>At the moment of the storm it remained without electricity for his conditioned air system and the sanitary services drowned quickly.<br><br>According to some television channels some people who died in their interior were attacked by armed groups.<br><br>Before the hurricane the modern stage was denostado by many residents of the cradle of the jazz that considered that by to be constructed on a cemetery she was the first culprit of the bad performance of his American football team, the "Saints of New Orleans".<br><br>With a capacity of 70,000 spectators, "Superdome" also was the scene of other sport events and artistic concerts.<br><br>Until the storm arrived, it had the most modern systems of communications, restaurants and mechanisms that of a day for another one turned it scene safe from the inclemencies of the time for parties of basketball, american football and until of baseball.<br><br>With conditioned air that throughout maintained an average temperature of 23 degrees Celsius the year, the modern structure also was in 1988 seat of the National Convention of the Republican Party that it designated like candidate to George Bush, father of the present president.<br><br>Its vestibule in Internet was boasted until days ago of which it was the greater structure with a dome "anywhere in the world able to support any catastrophe".<br><br>The data on this structure seemed to justify those affirmations: it occupies a surface of 210,000 square meters with a near space of 3.5 million square meters and one height of 82.3 meters. The diameter of the dome is of 269 meters.<br><br>According to the vestibule, it has been the scene most frequent of the "Super Bowl", the more important sport event in the one than the champion of the professional american football is decided.<br><br>Its ceiling was constructed to support winds of more than 300 kilometers per hour and, even in a flood, the waters could not arrive at their second level, according to affirms.<br><br>With those characteristics, and "although it was not constructed for it", already had been used like refuge when the hurricane "the Georges" was also lowered on the states of the Gulf of Mexico in 1998.<br></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <p></p><i></i>
