Journal DesScorp's Journal: Let New Orleans Die 3
We're seeing a lot of talk about rebuilding New Orleans in a few months, about spending $26 billion, and probably more, to restore it.
Are people out of their damn minds?
New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen. It's a city 12 feet below sea level, surrounded by 3 massive bodies of water. During normal times, it takes massive engineering to keep New Orleans dry. And scientists, professors, and engineers have been warning us for years, nay, decades that a direct hit from a large hurricane would likely destroy the city in Biblical proportions.
Take a look at New Orleans now; they were right.
80 percent of the city is under water, and that water level is rising, folks. The Army Corps of Engineers can't stop the flooding, Lake Ponchetrain continues to pour in, the Mississippi River is rising, and it's probable that more rain is on the way. And hurricane season isn't even over.
There should be no rebuilding of New Orleans. Spend as much money and manpower as neccessary to get the survivors out, but then place navigation hazard bouys around the city, and let nature take it's course. In a few years, what's left of New Orleans will literally be washed into the Gulf of Mexico, with no trace of the city left, no proof it ever existed visible on the surface of the water. That's not an exageration. That's literally what would happen at this point. The very shallow water table in New Orleans (as shallow as 6 feet deep in some parts) is being swollen with water too; the surface topsoil and everything on it will slide right off into the Gulf given time. The irony here is that, in the effort to preserve New Orleans, the levees and damns have prevented the accumulation of silts that made New Orleans in the first place; NO is nothing but a pile of river mud built up on the Mississippi Delta over the centuries. That accumulation of dirt would have eventually put NO above sea level, as well as absorbed some of the moisture from extra water. But you can't build a city in a standing swamp, so they kept the river out. And it's sealed the city's fate.
Rebuilding NO at the current lat/long would be a criminal misuse of resources, and stupidity at that. It's tantamount to building houses on the side of an active volcano. Sooner or later, you're going to die. NO dodged the odds for too long, and now her number is up. Wanna rebuild? Do it somewhere else and call it New Orleans. But not where the city presently is. Let it die, and nature will erase all visible traces of it. It'll exist only in memory, a place where Mardi Gras and Anne Rice once called home.
Damn SKippy (Score:2)
"they aint takin care of us"
"they put us here to die"
Well i'm sorry, if you live in a city 8 foot below sea level, in a hurricane area, and you have a good weeks notice that a category 5 is coming, ITS YOUR OWN FUCKING FAULT YOUR WORTHLESS ASS IS STILL AROUND.
Re:Damn SKippy (Score:2)
Daily Kos: Put The Niggers In The Superdome [dailykos.com]
Basically, they've got Bush one step short of dropping Zylkon B through the roof of the dome...
Oh, and NO is 12 ft below sea level...you were being generous...
Global Warming (Score:2)