If the New Orleans flood happened in OKC

[TUSooner]

I was trying to explain to my Dad in OKC the extent of Katrina's devastation in New Orleans. Sure, everybody's tired of hearing about it, but imagine what OKC would look like if the devastation of Katrina flood happened there:

Draw a line along NE/NW 63rd St from Sooner Rd in the East to Rockwell in the West; toss in Wiley Post Airport for kicks. Widen the swath up to Wilshire Bvd & Lake Hefner in the north (include Nichols Hills), and down to NE/NW 39th St in the south. Stretch the area down to NW/NE 23rd from OCU to around the Capitol.
Now empty that whole area, every neighborhood, all the houses, all the businesses, large and small, every friggin block -- completely empty, with a capital F. Tear out some carpets and sheetrock and lumber and shingles and pile the stuff by the streets. Draw some brown horizontal lines on all the buildings between 3 and 8 feet off the ground (to imitate highwater marks). Let it get all wet and moldy for a few weeks. Bricktown and Downtown are OK, but where do those people from the empty neighborhoods live? Where do they work?
THAT's about what New Orleans is like.

[jk the sooner fan]

were you able to save the Village?



thanks for that TU, thats an interesting perspective.....one that drives it home

[TUSooner]

The Village survived; my brother delivers the mail there.

[Stanley1]

Pfft.

[jk the sooner fan]

i know you got nichols hills, but there's a jimmy's egg in casady square there that i like.....lets let that be the ONE business that survived

mailmen gotta eat breakfast

[TUSooner]

i know you got nichols hills, but there's a jimmy's egg in casady square there that i like.....lets let that be the ONE business that survived

mailmen gotta eat breakfast

Sorry, but all those little spots you take for granted, including <gasp> my favorite - Braums, are gone, and you don't know whether they will be back or not.

[jk the sooner fan]

ok hang on, by my calculations you wiped out both johnnies....

lets not get crazy ok?

[Jimminy Crimson]

i know you got nichols hills, but there's a jimmy's egg in casady square there that i like.....lets let that be the ONE business that survived

mailmen gotta eat breakfast

If The Village survived, your Jimmy's Egg is safe.

[jk the sooner fan]

its on the south side of britton......no?

[SicEmBaylor]

Whew! Tulsa is safe, that was a close one!

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

It would have to be another Noah's Ark situation, as OKC is what, 600 ft. above sea level?

[Sooner Born Sooner Bred]

So everyone who has made fun of the southside all those years are homeless now? Hmmm karma's a beyatch.

[BajaOklahoma]

No biggie - all those people will just pick up and move to the burbs.

As long as Norman is okay.....

[Jimminy Crimson]

So everyone who has made fun of the southside all those years are homeless now? Hmmm karma's a beyatch.

No, Edmond is still above ground!

[Jimminy Crimson]

its on the south side of britton......no?

He just said up to Wilshire, so Casady Square and the 'original' Johnnie's are still rockin'!

[Newbomb Turk]

man - my house barely survived. I feel for those that live a little south of me though.

[jk the sooner fan]

He just said up to Wilshire, so Casady Square and the 'original' Johnnie's are still rockin'!

whew, thank god for that

[JohnnyMack]

I have no idea what you're talking about. Can you redraw Katrina over Tulsa please? Thanks.

[12]

That is an interesting comparison. I still wonder, though, why such a large city was constructed where N.O. was. Something HAD to give. And I think it will happen again.

Sandwiched between a gulf, a huge lake, and one of the world's largest rivers... not quite up to code IMO.

[slickdawg]

Well, the flood would fix a lot of the wildfire problems.....