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re: Harris county VS Nola
Posted on 4/19/20 at 11:23 pm to SammyTiger
Posted on 4/19/20 at 11:23 pm to SammyTiger
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It seems like they got ahead of it and shut things down before it had a big outbreak.
When did Houston “shut things down”?
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Posted on 4/19/20 at 11:24 pm to Bill Gannon
Who knows?
Posted on 4/19/20 at 11:27 pm to Bill Gannon
You think it was? It’s a valid theory I’d imagine.
Does that make Houston better?
Does that make Houston better?
Posted on 4/20/20 at 12:18 am to davyjones
quote:they’re willing to vote for the property taxes to do, unlike the people where I’m from
Upkeeping specific flood control structures probably isn't quite the same as ensuring the integrity of an entire levee system.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 12:27 am to LSU5508
Are you just speaking about people that traveled to Houston for the rodeo? Bc we didn't have the rodeo. Just confused at your point.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 12:28 am to chalmetteowl
I can't and won't dispute that about the property tax situation, but it's still not the obligation of locals to fund levee improvement projects. Maintenance of what's there, yes, I believe local levee boards/districts are responsible for that. But raising and or reinforcing levees to appropriate current standards, structurally speaking, that's all on the USACOE.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 8:54 am to jlntiger
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I know Nola Mardi Gras is huge but a lot of Houstonians attend Nola Mardi Gras plus the Galveston festivities . Then you had at least 4 days of the rodeo . How is it that there are only 75 dead in a county larger than the whole state of LA.
How many people from around the globe travel to Houston for Mardi Gras?
Posted on 4/20/20 at 9:24 am to jlntiger
Because Harris County is a newer cleaner place. Nola is a shithole...just like every other 3rd world environment.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 9:32 am to OWLFAN86
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OWLFAN86
You seem to be knowledgeable about our county government. Can I ask what you do? Do you moonlight as a Harris County official after all the yards are cut and weedwhacked? (I may or may not be affiliated with the entity that handles excessive rainfall and channels)
Posted on 4/20/20 at 10:55 am to LSU5508
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Houston has no event that rivals Mardi Gras. Comparing the exposure during the rodeo to exposure during Mardi Gras is like comparing the Superbowl to the the SWAC championship.
The Houston Rodeo has over 2.5 million attend the concert and rodeo portion of the event. That doesn't account for the 150,000 of the three nights of the BBQ cook off and the portions that aren't related tot the rodeo event itself such as the livestock show portion. More people attend this than essentially the whole state of Louisiana.
This year was limited to about 500,000 attendees but thats still significant
This post was edited on 4/20/20 at 10:58 am
Posted on 4/20/20 at 11:22 am to jlntiger
Maybe the covid doesn't affect hispanics, thus Houston has less cases since its mostly hispanic.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 11:38 am to Houston Texas Tiger
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The Houston Rodeo has over 2.5 million attend the concert and rodeo portion of the event. That doesn't account for the 150,000 of the three nights of the BBQ cook off and the portions that aren't related tot the rodeo event itself such as the livestock show portion. More people attend this than essentially the whole state of Louisiana.
Its already been said and i'm not trying to make this NOLA vs Houston except to say all tourism is not equal. While the rodeo typically brings in a million plus people those people are mainly regional. You are not getting large numbers of international and far away domestic tourism for that event. NOLA got huge numbers of international travelers for Mardi Gras and those people most likely carried the virus in. NOLA typically gets 1.5-2 million for Mardi Gras so that dwarfs the 500k the Rodeo got this year. To say Houston was somehow better prepared for this event is laughable. They may have the infrastructure to be prepared but since they closed after NOLA, the only way they were more prepared for this is if their method of preparation was to do nothing at all.
Houston went ahead with the rodeo long after the virus was gaining steam world wide and that sure does not scream over prepared. Your political leaders took the risk of exposing hundreds of thousands of event goers with little to no precautions. Houston has different demographics, Houston events have different demographics and the city is 5 times the size of NOLA. Just accept the fact that sometimes you are fortunate and that not everything is a competition where you actually did anything better.
NOLA has handled this better than most places in the country, sure the johnny no nothings parroting just the sheer totals they hear on the news will try to create a cause and effect even when it is not there. The vice president said yesterday NOLA had gotten this under control faster than any major metro in the nation.
This post was edited on 4/20/20 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 4/20/20 at 11:53 am to LSU5508
I had heard an Uber driver was one of the first known to have spread it in NOLA
Posted on 4/20/20 at 12:16 pm to jlntiger
the amount of people that attend a full Mardi Gras and the amount of people that attend the first 4 days of the rodeo isn't even close to being remotely comparable
Posted on 4/20/20 at 12:36 pm to Ollieoxenfree99
quote:
Are you just speaking about people that traveled to Houston for the rodeo? Bc we didn't have the rodeo. Just confused at your point
I'm not following. The rodeo was cut short but was active for a week and change before being cancelled.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 1:08 pm to jlntiger
Vodoo,
New Orleans is a pretend "city".
New Orleans is a pretend "city".
Posted on 4/20/20 at 1:16 pm to jlntiger
This is simple. Texas is better managed and A lot more honest than Louisiana. In Texas you are not allowed to be a ward of the state as much as Louisiana.
In Louisiana we actually think we can get ahead in life by lying to each other and ourselves, by stealing from each other, by suing each other and by taxing each other. We are a “Throw me somethin mista” society. Texas is “Get off your arse and go to work” society.
In Louisiana we actually think we can get ahead in life by lying to each other and ourselves, by stealing from each other, by suing each other and by taxing each other. We are a “Throw me somethin mista” society. Texas is “Get off your arse and go to work” society.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 1:16 pm to Bill Gannon
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And why was most of your city underwater? Because your local government failed to maintain the levees.
Levees are a federal project, frickstick.
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