Where are the Hornets gonna move to? Seattle or Vegas?

I hope New orleans will escape this one, that city and their people DO NOT DESERVE to go through something like this again. I hope the government has taken all the precautions to get people out safely even if it means leaving there things behind.

P.S some of you on here don't understand what the concept of "HOME" is to someone, many of those people would have lived in that city their entire life, possibly generations of family did before them so to simply say pack up your things and move is something easy to say but hard to do.

Showtime I really hope you never have to experience something like this as do anyone else on here.

[QUOTE=step_back]P.S some of you on here don't understand what the concept of "HOME" is to someone, many of those people would have lived in that city their entire life, possibly generations of family did before them so to simply say pack up your things and move is something easy to say but hard to do.

Showtime I really hope you never have to experience something like this as do anyone else on here.[/QUOTE]
I hope so too. I knew people from Houston that dealt with the flooding there. I live in an area where flooding is a real possibility, even though it's never happened yet. It's not something I wish on people. I think some here think I'm writing off everybody there, and that's not what I'm saying.

[QUOTE=TakitoEspanoza]Im athiest so who do you suggest I pray to? The Hurricane god? :hammerhead:

This is purely an NBA topic on where the Hornets will move too.[/QUOTE]

If it really is just a topic, which I doubt, then it is too soon to ask it.

Let's see what happens with the hurricane and the more important aspects of the impact before worrying about if/when the Hornets need to move.

sorry ive been in the dark for the past 3 days, when is the storm gonna hit?

Showtime has to be a teenager. There is simply no other explanation for his words.

No comment on the Team situation. Unqualified sympathy for the families that are about to have there lives ripped apart.

And for the couple ignorant pricks bagging on the residents of New Orleans that can't leave: I hope you never have to chose between feeding your children, or having them starve somewhere safer. It's an impossible situation, and one that deserve empathy, not smug second guessing from a position of privilege.

[QUOTE=Showtime]I hope so too. I knew people from Houston that dealt with the flooding there. I live in an area where flooding is a real possibility, even though it's never happened yet. It's not something I wish on people. I think some here think I'm writing off everybody there, and that's not what I'm saying.[/QUOTE]

problem is on forums it's difficult to tell what context it's in, you can't tell peoples tone or manner. people just have to be weary when typing and make the commitment to think rationally and coherently.

[QUOTE=miles berg]Showtime has to be a teenager. There is simply no other explanation for his words.[/QUOTE]
Sorry to disappoint. You can disagree with my viewpoint, and that's fine. But this isn't an issue to be "right" or "wrong" on, because I'm talking about the limits of my own personal empathy. I honestly don't think you even understand what my viewpoint is.

[QUOTE=Valliant13]No comment on the Team situation. Unqualified sympathy for the families that are about to have there lives ripped apart.

And for the couple ignorant pricks bagging on the residents of New Orleans that can't leave: I hope you never have to chose between feeding your children, or having them starve somewhere safer. It's an impossible situation, and one that deserve empathy, not smug second guessing from a position of privilege.[/QUOTE]
I haven't read anybody bagging on the people who are unable to leave. Who was doing that?

I get your viewpoint, Im not accusing you of being immature. I am just saying you must be a teenager, or rich, because most people can't just decide to pull up their roots and move. And the percentage of those people that can goes down significantly when you factor in that the likely only source of equity they have, their house, no longer has any value. Insurance companies rarely cover more than what is actually owed, if they even cover that. And with the amount of claims that come with a natural disaster, the time that a homeowner has to wait for their insurance to pay is going to be longer than an isolated incident (a fire or something along those lines) takes to pay.

Long story short, unless someone has family they can move in with that is away from New Orleans, the odds of that person being able to afford to move because of a natural disaster are very small.

[QUOTE=miles berg]I get your viewpoint, Im not accusing you of being immature. I am just saying you must be a teenager, or rich, because most people can't just decide to pull up their roots and move. And the percentage of those people that can goes down significantly when you factor in that the likely only source of equity they have, their house, no longer has any value. Insurance companies rarely cover more than what is actually owed, if they even cover that. And with the amount of claims that come with a natural disaster, the time that a homeowner has to wait for their insurance to pay is going to be longer than an isolated incident (a fire or something along those lines) takes to pay.

Long story short, unless someone has family they can move in with that is away from New Orleans, the odds of that person being able to afford to move because of a natural disaster are very small.[/QUOTE]
I understand your point about staying being the only short term option for some people. They have nothing. For those that lost everything, all they had left was their property, which suddenly was worthless. They had nothing. Some got checks, some got new homes, and a lot got stuck in FEMA trailers. I'm not bagging on anybody. All I'm saying is that those that lost everything but had options: they chose to stay. They chose, for the relative short term, to stick it out and try to rebuild. Now they are facing a level 3 hurricane once again.

So I will ask you: at what point is enough enough? If I lost my home, and my property value went down the tubes, and I had nothing left with no family or money, I would probably take the trailer and try to rebuild. But if I was in a situation where I was facing that prospect every year, and I had other options, I probably wouldn't.

There are people who DO have family, and there are people who do have options. Not everybody who lost everything was dirt poor. For the people who had nowhere else to go, I can understand them picking the trailer. For those that could relocate, and didn't, and are now facing the same prospect of losing everything yet again, I have little empathy.

the hornets are not going anywhere, and you really should not have made this thread because it is pointless when the sotrm is not even here yet nor do we know for sure its impact. IDIOT

Showtime must not have any friends, business contacts, family, love interests or nostalgic memories if he thinks its that easy to pack up and leave your home after ONE drastic occurence. The U.S. has been hit by terrorists and there's very real chances of this reoccuring in the future, will it be hard for you to have sympathy for people living in big cities potentially being targeted because they didn't learn from 9/11? You're a coward and an elitist *********

[QUOTE=macmac]Showtime must not have any friends, business contacts, family, love interests or nostalgic memories if he thinks its that easy to pack up and leave your home after ONE drastic occurence. The U.S. has been hit by terrorists and there's very real chances of this reoccuring in the future, will it be hard for you to have sympathy for people living in big cities potentially being targeted because they didn't learn from 9/11? You're a coward and an elitist *********[/QUOTE]
You obviously don't understand what my opinion is, and I can gather that by this post. So, since your comments don't have any relation to my opinion, it's really not even worth addressing. Your analogies aren't even accurate because they are too broad. You can call me a coward or elitist, but that just proves you don't comprehend what I'm saying. I wasn't talking about everybody. I was expressing my viewpoint of a select group of people in a very specific circumstance. I also wasn't criticizing or demeaning anybody. I simply said my empathy has limitations. Get over it.

[QUOTE=72-10]Maybe you should be mad at global warming instead.[/QUOTE]
Being mad about certain does not solve it.