New Orleans is flooding again and the storm hasn’t even hit yet.

[martybegan]

When Democrats run a City

More like what happens "when you build a city in a bowl below sea level"

To be fair, in that part of the country, Parts of New Orleans are actually the high ground.

 

[OldLady]

When Democrats run a City

Statues weren't removed until 2017 Whizzo, and that scene of thee inches of water is fairly typical. Hell I saw three feet multiple times just from a rainstorm. Plus, pulling a statue or White League monument doesn't take a fraction of what flood control does, so don't sit here and try to sell bullshit.

Besides which, the ACofE puts the levees up.

I'm a Katrinite. I know this shit.

I heard it on the radio this morning, though, Pogo--it looks as if New Orleans may be in for record flooding--I don't know any particulars.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

When Democrats run a City

Statues weren't removed until 2017 Whizzo, and that scene of thee inches of water is fairly typical. Hell I saw three feet multiple times just from a rainstorm. Plus, pulling a statue or White League monument doesn't take a fraction of what flood control does, so don't sit here and try to sell bullshit.

Besides which, the ACofE puts the levees up.

I'm a Katrinite. I know this shit.

I heard it on the radio this morning, though, Pogo--it looks as if New Orleans may be in for record flooding--I don't know any particulars.

The hubris of mankind. Build a city below sea level, surrounded by water and wetlands and then act amazed when it floods.


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[22lcidw]

I know water is an issue in those parts. But in school when I was a lot younger I was taught that the mighty Mississippi River actually wants to change course around New Orleans region and the powers that be do not let it. A lot of people in a small area with a certain amount of supplies and limited escape routes is dangerous. Its a Walking Dead petri dish. We saw it before.

 

[OldLady]

When Democrats run a City

Statues weren't removed until 2017 Whizzo, and that scene of thee inches of water is fairly typical. Hell I saw three feet multiple times just from a rainstorm. Plus, pulling a statue or White League monument doesn't take a fraction of what flood control does, so don't sit here and try to sell bullshit.

Besides which, the ACofE puts the levees up.

I'm a Katrinite. I know this shit.

I heard it on the radio this morning, though, Pogo--it looks as if New Orleans may be in for record flooding--I don't know any particulars.

The hubris of mankind. Build a city below sea level, surrounded by water and wetlands and then act amazed when it floods.


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I was there several years ago for a vacation. It is really rough around the edges, but it has a real character to it that a lot of American cities have lost. Lots of murders--one a day while I was there--and a New Orlean told me the gangs had really upped their game since Katrina. Another flood is going to wipe them out, I'm afraid.

 

[martybegan]

When Democrats run a City

Statues weren't removed until 2017 Whizzo, and that scene of thee inches of water is fairly typical. Hell I saw three feet multiple times just from a rainstorm. Plus, pulling a statue or White League monument doesn't take a fraction of what flood control does, so don't sit here and try to sell bullshit.

Besides which, the ACofE puts the levees up.

I'm a Katrinite. I know this shit.

I heard it on the radio this morning, though, Pogo--it looks as if New Orleans may be in for record flooding--I don't know any particulars.

The hubris of mankind. Build a city below sea level, surrounded by water and wetlands and then act amazed when it floods.


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Just wait until a 500 year flood hits and we see if Old River Control can stand up to it.

The issue is people as a group have short memories, if the flood doesn't happen every year or even every 10 years, people forget and think it won't happen again.

Old River Control Structure - Wikipedia

The Old River Control Structure is a floodgate system in a branch of the Mississippi River in central Louisiana. It regulates the flow of water leaving the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya River, thereby preventing the Mississippi river from changing course

 

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[Claudette]

The federal government granted New Orleans millions to repair the levees and they spent it on casinos. The casinos make more than 150 million every month but the levees are still in disrepair and they blame the republican administration.

Currently this isn't a levee thing, (it may become that later). It's more due to the fact that New Orleans is below sea and river level, so they have to pump out every drop of rain that falls inside the city.

Evidently either the pumps or the sewer lines (or both) can't keep up.

I agree. The whole area is about five feet below sea level. Anyone who live there aint' to bright.

 

[The Original Tree]

When Democrats run a City

New Orleans is an example of Government Building a City on a Swamp and then blaming the weather and The One Eyed, Global Warming Spaghetti Monster for flooding it.

 

[martybegan]

The federal government granted New Orleans millions to repair the levees and they spent it on casinos. The casinos make more than 150 million every month but the levees are still in disrepair and they blame the republican administration.

Currently this isn't a levee thing, (it may become that later). It's more due to the fact that New Orleans is below sea and river level, so they have to pump out every drop of rain that falls inside the city.

Evidently either the pumps or the sewer lines (or both) can't keep up.

I agree. The whole area is about five feet below sea level. Anyone who live there aint' to bright.

It's the best land in the area

The federal government granted New Orleans millions to repair the levees and they spent it on casinos. The casinos make more than 150 million every month but the levees are still in disrepair and they blame the republican administration.

Currently this isn't a levee thing, (it may become that later). It's more due to the fact that New Orleans is below sea and river level, so they have to pump out every drop of rain that falls inside the city.

Evidently either the pumps or the sewer lines (or both) can't keep up.

I agree. The whole area is about five feet below sea level. Anyone who live there aint' to bright.

It's the best location in the area for a port. The surrounding land is even worse, but at least the people there are more spread out and can pick the clumps of "high" ground to build on.

 

[OldLady]

When Democrats run a City

New Orleans is an example of Government Building a City on a Swamp and then blaming the weather and The One Eyed, Global Warming Spaghetti Monster for flooding it.

The "government" didn't build New Orleans. It was actually originally settled in what is now called the "French Quarter" which is the one area of Nola that did not flood during Katrina because it is above sea level. People eventually spread out, initially to farm some of that rich alluvial soil, knowing full well it would be under water sometimes.

We--well, the French and then the Spanish and then the French again and then the U.S.--needed a port at the mouth of the Mississippi, which until the railroads was the interstate system of the settled continent. Ships. Think ships.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

It has been 14 years, its time for some more cleansing.

 

[OldLady]

It has been 14 years, its time for some more cleansing.

At least people have PLENTY of warning this time. Are people evacuating?

 

[LordBrownTrout]

It has been 14 years, its time for some more cleansing.

At least people have PLENTY of warning this time. Are people evacuating?

I would assume no. They had plenty of warning last time too. Lol.

 

[bendog]

When Democrats run a City

Do you realize the pumps and levees have nothing to do with a rain storm that dumped 10 inches of rain in a short period, and do you recall the floods in Houston and Nashville? No you don't. LOL

 

[BlindBoo]

Localized street flooding due to heavy ass downpours.

 

[Pogo]

When Democrats run a City

Statues weren't removed until 2017 Whizzo, and that scene of thee inches of water is fairly typical. Hell I saw three feet multiple times just from a rainstorm. Plus, pulling a statue or White League monument doesn't take a fraction of what flood control does, so don't sit here and try to sell bullshit.

Besides which, the ACofE puts the levees up.

I'm a Katrinite. I know this shit.

I heard it on the radio this morning, though, Pogo--it looks as if New Orleans may be in for record flooding--I don't know any particulars.

I've been in touch and monitoring. I advised a friend if she can get to a parking garage to put her car way up high. She was just about to move, if she doesn't get washed away.

Kind of helpless from here to do any more.

Fourteen years ago I got her and her pets out, and her neighborhood took eight feet. Not in a position to do that now. On the other hand where I lived took only two feet and some of my neighbors rode it out. We chose to take her car, while mine left behind was submerged to its roof.

 

[Pogo]

When Democrats run a City

New Orleans is an example of Government Building a City on a Swamp and then blaming the weather and The One Eyed, Global Warming Spaghetti Monster for flooding it.

New Orleans is over three hundred years old, Dumbass. It was there way before "Government" was.

 

[Pogo]

I know water is an issue in those parts. But in school when I was a lot younger I was taught that the mighty Mississippi River actually wants to change course around New Orleans region and the powers that be do not let it. A lot of people in a small area with a certain amount of supplies and limited escape routes is dangerous. Its a Walking Dead petri dish. We saw it before.

The Mississippi River changes course everywhere, particularly the southern half where it gets wide. Follow it north on a road map some time, you'll see parts of Mississippi inside Louisiana and vice versa. Rivers do that.

In 1927 that southern half flooded big time, put 27,000 square miles under water and drastically affected ten states. My mother talked about it and she was just a toddler at the time.

That's what this was about --

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[Pogo]

When Democrats run a City

More like what happens "when you build a city in a bowl below sea level"

To be fair, in that part of the country, Parts of New Orleans are actually the high ground.

Monkey Hill!