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30 Aug 05
30 Aug 05
For some perspective. The Gov. of Louisiana has order the city evacuated. There are no ways in or out of the city. It is completely cut off except for helicopters. There is no drinkable water. There is no way to get food in. The water level is rising. Schools will be closed for months. Major highways/bridges have collapsed. When we all start bitching about $3+ a gallon gas, be grateful you didn't die there or for that matter live there.
30 Aug 05
Originally posted by kirksey957Latest reports/video show a major levy separating Lake Ponchatrain(sp?) from the city is failing along a 2 block long front . Water is continuing to flood into the city . The Army Corps of Engineers can do nothing about it until tomorrow at the earliest .
For some perspective. The Gov. of Louisiana has order the city evacuated. There are no ways in or out of the city. It is completely cut off except for helicopters. There is no drinkable water. There is no way to get food in. The water level is rising. Schools will be closed for months. Major highways/bridges have collapsed. When we all start bitching about $3+ a gallon gas, be grateful you didn't die there or for that matter live there.
There are many reports of bodies floating in the streets . The death toll is expected to rise significantly .
There is no food , no water , and no way out .
We also have 6-8 weeks left in the storm season .
30 Aug 05
Originally posted by Moldy CrowJust out of curiosity, I hear about this 6 foot lower than sealevel
Latest reports/video show a major levy separating Lake Ponchatrain(sp?) from the city is failing along a 2 block long front . Water is continuing to flood into the city . The Army Corps of Engineers can do nothing about it until tomorrow at the earliest .
There are many reports of bodies floating in the streets . The death toll is expected to rise sig ...[text shortened]... re is no food , no water , and no way out .
We also have 6-8 weeks left in the storm season .
and such. After a couple of hundred years of hurricanes in the
area, why haven't they just raised the city about 10 feet up?
It seems in a hundred years you could have easily done that.
Now we find not the hurricane but a busted dike on a viaduct is
doing them in. The hurricane probably busted the canal but
why does this kind of thing only get fixed after the fact?
30 Aug 05
Originally posted by sonhouseIt's more than 20 feet under sea level in some places . N.O. has never had a direct hit from a major hurricane . The levies and pumps were the best the tech at the time could do . The levies were built in 65 , and all that was possible at the time was designing to take a cat. 3 hurricane . Plus , the levies must be high enough ALL of the way around the city to do any good against a storm surge 25 feet plus .
Just out of curiosity, I hear about this 6 foot lower than sealevel
and such. After a couple of hundred years of hurricanes in the
area, why haven't they just raised the city about 10 feet up?
It seems in a hundred years you could have easily done that.
Now we find not the hurricane but a busted dike on a viaduct is
doing them in. The hurricane probably busted the canal but
why does this kind of thing only get fixed after the fact?
Raising the land is a bit more problematic than it sounds I would suspect . You would not only have to raise the land but the foundations of all of the buildings and the structures themselves as well .