re: My buddy's post about NOLA catch basins in his hood

I would think so. The ones by me, they cleaned the three curb drains, but not the flush drains. I dug out and snaked the two flush ones. The three curbed ones I just had to clear the inlet.
In Nola though it's beyond obvious that they don't even try. I saw a while back Ryan Hadel cleaned a couple on Magazine and it was multiple people and multiple bags. Now no way the city should skip over any drain, but not cleaning them on a major shopping thouroughfare is asinine.

I'm not buying it based on Official reports I just heard

swb has been incompetent and corrupt for years. workers dont work and supervisors dont supervise—-typical nola government .

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It’s not right but it’s reality that citizens have to get on in there and when they hit a blockage call 311.

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For the amount of property taxes Nola hits you for this is inexcusable.


However this seems like a good alternative to the litter abatement program. Although NOLA doesn’t have any shortage of that either.

What's sad is that poor guy spent all day doing two of them when a vac truck and an injection hose would have that sucked out clean in like 15-20 minutes tops.

You know, when I was in the Army all I wanted was to come back home. I couldn't wait to get back and be around everything I knew.

Been back now for almost 7 years and I cannot wait to get out of not just the metro area, but the state of Louisiana. Just waiting on my girl to finish medical school at Tulane and we're out of here for good.

Funky, why has your friend not gone to the news with this? They would eat this up.

Maybe don’t live below sea level and then complain about flooding?
I’m from New Orleans and always assumed it came with the territory.
Also lived In Gulf Shores during Katrina and Gustav and always knew what could happen. My mom was filmed by local news on the beach right before, they asked what she thought about having to evacuate, flooding and such, she said “it’s the price you pay to live in paradise”
Gulf Shores is no paradise to me, but if you’re house is getting flooded regularly and you aren’t living in paradise, maybe reevaluate your living situation

Man that's crazy.

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Maybe don’t live below sea level and then complain about flooding? I’m from New Orleans and always assumed it came with the territory.

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The OP isn’t complaining about the flooding; he’s complaining about the corrupt and lazy SWB that accepts tax dollars but doesn’t deliver service to the point of criminality.

Too many New Orleanians assume things come with the territory - flooding, crime, potholes, litter, boiling alerts, bad schools, etc. No one demands better because no one expects better.