AOTA is mostly gone

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:42 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/09 ... index.html

NM354 · Post by **NM354** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:28 pm

that sucks

sb1227 · Post by **sb1227** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:56 pm

Can't even say how bad that hurts....

Interesting that the seadragons lived...they are the coolest creatures....

ShagMan · Post by **ShagMan** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:48 pm

titansgurl · Post by **titansgurl** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 2:54 pm

Aww man. And Drew promised me one day we'd go back to NO for a day and visit the aquarium and the zoo. The last time we were there, we didn't get a chance to go and I really wanted to...

Amphiprion · Post by **Amphiprion** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:17 pm

That is a shame. There are priceless animals in both the aota and the az. at least their prize specimens are not lost. I am glad their leafy and weedy sea dragons remain alive (since this is what they are famous for, in addition to the huge outdoor swamp exhibit). I hope they can recover, since i love the place and hope to see it again someday.

sb1227 · Post by **sb1227** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:07 am

I have no doubt they will recover.

Can't you just imagine what the caretakers are going thru, it must be terrible for them.

Those dragons were my favorite part of the exibit, along with the tiny 1" seahorses. I think I got some pics, but they didn't come out too well.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 10:03 am

If they weren't forced to evacuate the building things might have been fine too. That is what reallt gets me. The F@#%ing looters (not those getting food and essentials its those getting guns and nike's) killed the aquarium.

sb1227 · Post by **sb1227** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:18 pm

Yeah, that's the truth. But you know, I have to believe that for all the s**theads there are out there....there are way more good folks..

http://www.aza.org/Newsroom/hurricaneupdate/

http://www.lpzoo.com/index2.html

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:26 pm

I tend to agree but the newscameras show a lot of bad for one piece of good. One of the stores by my house was looted and it scared my wife so bad that I thought she was going to have a stroke. I had to sleep with my gun for the first time in a while to help calm her down.

sb1227 · Post by **sb1227** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:17 pm

But the bad is so much more exciting!

Kind of the "blood and guts" of a story in the literal sense. Personally I think the news needs to chill out on this story a little now, the "blame game" thing is getting a little ridiculous.

That particular fear takes a long time to go away, if it ever does. I was always terrified when I was a kid and we lived just outside Wash,DC.
I don't think it went away till we moved to Tennessee when I was 11.