Harrahs New Orleans
 

It is unpleasant to see all the bad news about New Orleans lately. Harrahs New Orleans was the best cardroom I had ever seen. I hope all the New Orleans people and Harrahs poker players (Bush, Zeke etc), dealers and floor people are ok. I hope Harrahs can re-open in 2005...

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Bush, Bernice, and all the other octogenarian (at least) players, and the faces without names whom I sat with for hours on end.

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I seriously doubt anything is going to be reopened in 2005.

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I read a great article about how long the recovery effort might take in NOLA. It was something along the lines of...
Pump out the water, 60 days
Go house to house looking for bodies and/or survivors, 90 days
Inspect and decide which buildings can remain, 90 days
Bulldoze everything else, 120 days
Haul off the rubble, 120 days

So you're looking at more than 1 year before the city is even ready to start rebuilding. So I'll be shocked if Harrah's reopens in 2006.

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Wow. That really sucks...but it does seem like a fairly realistic rebuilding plan.

What the hell all the refugees are going to do for all that time is beyond me. Not just those who are at the Astrodome or the Reliant Center. That's just a few thousand of MANY.
There are many many people who left the area on their own before the hurricane got there who can't stay in a hotal forever.


We went to New Orleans for my birthday/Halloween last year and had a great time (Halloween in New Orleans is pretty crazy) but obviously won't be doing the same thing this year.

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There are still resorts in Florida that haven'r re-opened from Charlie last year. Katrina looks 10 times worse. I would think late 2007 or 2008 is a more reasonable estimate. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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You will find another place to play. Anyway, Harrah's definitely won't miss YOU. Harrah's is the largest gaming company in the world. Fifty properties in thirteen states. The consumer doesn't have a snowball's chance in h..., with that predator, now that they own Caesar's Entertainment and Horseshoe Corporation. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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My wife an I took our honeymoon in NewOrleans last may. For the most part [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] the locals there are some of he nicest people you will ever meet, and the harrah's was a ton of fun. I dont know if the french quarter can ever be quite the same. Heres to one final toke to the harahs in new orleans I hope everyone is safe.

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It appears the French Quarter and parts of the Garden District might have been spared the worst...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/03/kat...ter/index.html

At any rate.....here is a timeline for recovery a friend emailed me:

60 days....pump out water.
90 days.....search for and remove bodies.
90 days.....inspect buildings to see what is salvagable/beyond repair.
120 days....bulldoze what can't be fixed.
120 days.....remove trash and bulldozed buildings.

It seems there would be some overlap with these processes, but still, a long haul.

Also, this timeline makes no mention of bridge and road repair, and that is a big factor also.

Of course, if NOLA gets hits with another storm (even as small as just a thunderstorm dumping an inch of rain)it sets all this back a bit.

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It's worth being mindful of how Harrah's handles the situation with its out-of-work employees. If they don't do right by them, I'll be squeamish of going into any of their casinos ever again. It's a company that told tons of lies to Louisiana and New Orleans just to get that casino into the city, so I'm wary of how they will proceed now.