New orleans
 

just got activated to go down. whats the area like? Anyone from the area?

According to my parents, it was a pretty awesome place before Katrina. It's alright now. Sorta

I wonder how long it will take to adjust to the heat, i looked it up and its 1,530 miles away :eek:

Oh, that's right- you're a Yankee bastard. Well, you are going to want to eat a bullet after awhile because the coldest, dryest day of the year in New Orleans is like the hottest, most miserably humid day you have ever experienced in your life

From Maine to N'waleans? Ouch. That's gonna be brutal. Sorry I can't be any more encouraging than that.

Lived in the N.O. area for 52 years, and you NEVER really get used to the heat. That is why they make air conditioners. :D

The area has never really recovered from Katrina. It is estimated that we lost 200,000 small businesses that have never returned. But there are still a large number of great restaurants, bars, and clubs. Both of our current phone books stacked only measure up about two thirds to one of our pre-Katrina phone books.

We have gotten used to the situation, but a couple of years back, my Sister and her Husband visited, and were shocked about what wasn't here any longer.

A video from Benny Brunch and the Bunch that may give you a little local flavor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOXVEcXftj4

David.

Turning 20 in 2 weeks, whats there to do for the underage folks?

Well, you can slowly melt in the midday sun...

high five krel.
N.O. is hot, i visit my cousins there every year.
and what they're saying is true...hasn't really recovered, hot.....etc.
its pretty cool. the people are nice....most of them
underagedness.......say you are 21 and pull bar tricks to win free beers.
hell, ill even teach you a few!

Hopefully a hurrican doesnt hit, it will be a shitshow. City built underwater, oil thrown all over.....

If that happens, maybe they'll send you to Lake Charles, which is a pretty cool place

theyd send me around looking for people probably. Im going as a field observer to search for oil, if roles switch it will probably be for people.

My dad did search and rescue work in New Orleans during Katrina. He was paired with some crazy, full-auto-capable-AUG toting policeman. He told me that the water burned your skin when you touched it and there were dead bodies everywhere

I heard i may teamed up with locals, they know the area and the coast guard has almost no boats that operate in marshes. Also, we have water cooled engines and cant cruise in oil.

going to be in Houma. New orleans to process paperwork and stuff then cruising over there in a few days.

Its weird here, you go down a line of houses and some look untouched, then bam, ones there completely destroyed, looking like an isolated hit. Then theres bulldozed sections by the water where they plowed out the wrecks of flooded houses.

They sent you already? Is it hotter than hell yet?

only about 80, mine had a heatwave in the same temp range too. Im travelling to Houma tomorrow.

Only 80? Well, we are having an unusually cool summer

Hopefully it stays cooler. I hate heat and humidity. On the bright side when i get back good games start coming out on 360

New Vegas?

Vegas, black ops, medal of honor.

blacklight tango down?

I can't wait for New Vegas. I pre-ordered the special edition and paid off slightly less than half of it already

I just found out I'm going to New Orleans in August

I got my job, Franklin, LA. Im going to ride boats, fanboats, helicopters most likely, sounds legit.