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Date: 2005-08-31 12:27 am (UTC)Even as NO is pretty much built on the gulf, it's not, structurally speaking, the same as Venice, or Amsterdam: most of the waterways or canals that existed in it originally have since been filled, paved, or built over. They're hardly navigable. The NO port on the Mississippi is actually not near the city's downtown, but about 20 miles west of the city, connected by it by causeways (i.e., tall bridges going over swamp land)
So that's where structures such as the Superdome that can compensate for the fact that NO is on average 7 feet under the sea level become emergency shelters.
The Superdome is pretty sound, structurally speaking, and it's very wide, so to afford a lot of room per person, not to mention the fact that aside for a couple of five star hotels in the area, it is the only building over 25 stories or so, being one of the newer buildings in town. New Orleans is a very old town, with very old buildings, most of them historically relevant enough where one can't necessarily get a permit to demolish them, and put more high rises in place. Sure, pieces of the Superdome's roof roof fell off because it got dumped on by waves of water making their way inland, rain, and winds that were out of the norm, but most any buildings in the area other than the Superdome would and probably have imploded on themselves under the same pressure it managed to withstand for several hours.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the choice of the Superdome as one of the 10 or so shelters within New Orleans and Jefferson Parishes makes a lot more sense than national newscasters are probably conveying on TV, based on their own half assed impressions of what the town is and is not like (the only reason I am pretty sure gathering in the Superdome makes a lot more sense than to stay in most hotels or office/hospital buildings is because I've been to visit several parts of town over the last five years, so I've got a pretty good idea of where I'd want to be, were I there and unable to leave).
As for rescue services, paramedics and doctors, a friend of my husband's sister was on call on Sunday, and told her on the phone Sunday afternoon that she couldn't possibly leave in the middle of her shift, and she was unlikely to be able to pack up and leave safely on Monday morning with the storm so closeby, so she might as well stay and help. I would hardly call that having a choice (i.e., their reason to stay is also what makes the choice to stay unavoidable).