Doug Thornton
Doug Thornton
rebirth recovery symbol
It is a symbol of the recovery and rebirth of New Orleans.
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One guy asked me why we wouldn't just want to tear down the Dome because it harbors so many bad memories of the storm, but we had 30 years of good memories here before the hurricane. It could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans, something people could rally around.
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I think it could be a symbol perhaps of the rebuilding of New Orleans. There are a lot of good memories in the dome too.
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I think it could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans.
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That building is a little worse than I first thought. I'm a little discouraged by what we saw there.
cost
That would cost $30 (million) to $40 million.
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We don't expect to take any water. But we wanted them up higher in case.
dome next ready
We're working to make the Dome ready for the next season.
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It's very early at this point to speculate about the future of the Dome and whether it can be repaired.
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They'll tell us if we should rehabilitate the dome or demolish it and start over.
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It's in bad shape. Whether it can be rehabilitated in nine or 12 months is not something I could tell you about now. There's severe damage to the roof (70 percent exposed), severe damage to the electrical distribution systems and a lot of the interior spaces are damaged.
We were down to an hour-and-a-half of fuel.
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You get the feeling that if you could take this thing down to the bare walls and replace some of the mechanical, electrical and plumbing (systems), you could be back in business. I don't know how long that would take, but structurally the building seems to be in pretty good shape.
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It's unbelievable. All these big oak trees are just uprooted, everything is brown and the waterline is up to 7 feet on the house. It's like somebody dropped a nuclear weapon and just killed everything. There's not any sign of life. There's no greenery. It's bizarre. It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life.