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Offline Ace Pace

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Reply #20 on: August 30, 2005, 06:45:02 am
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According to the Today Show the water is steadily rising in the French Quarter. The Levey has been breeched, and Lake Ponchetrain is flowing into the city. Gas stations and cars are leaking gasoline into the water and there are multiple natural gas leaks.


Crossposting from another board, that is not good, we could see the loss of an entire city here.
 

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Reply #21 on: August 30, 2005, 03:37:33 pm
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Crossposting from another board, that is not good, we could see the loss of an entire city here.

We were going to see the loss of this entire city one way or another.  The sea level has been rising quicker and quicker and in 50 years the place is going to be under water no matter what.  What this storm has done is still pretty unbelievable.

My personal feeling is, despite the sentimental value of the place, that they do not rebuild in any serious capacity.  Good portions of new Orleans is under sea level.  Those levys that broke were to keep the rivers and ocean out...but they were designed ages ago.  Maybe the Venice Italy approach would work...a city of waterways rather than roads.
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Reply #22 on: August 30, 2005, 04:08:03 pm
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Bad gateways all over the place, eh? Yeah, that rain can be really nasty...


Why do I even try with yahoo?:rolleyes:

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Reply #23 on: August 30, 2005, 04:24:02 pm
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We were going to see the loss of this entire city one way or another.  The sea level has been rising quicker and quicker and in 50 years the place is going to be under water no matter what.  What this storm has done is still pretty unbelievable.

My personal feeling is, despite the sentimental value of the place, that they do not rebuild in any serious capacity.  Good portions of new Orleans is under sea level.  Those levys that broke were to keep the rivers and ocean out...but they were designed ages ago.  Maybe the Venice Italy approach would work...a city of waterways rather than roads.


 

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Reply #24 on: August 30, 2005, 11:32:36 pm
Was that New Orleans in that ep!?

Good lord, Futurama has been predicting the future for years. :eek:

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Reply #25 on: August 31, 2005, 01:54:22 am
no, that was the lost city of Atlanta
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Reply #26 on: August 31, 2005, 02:21:04 am
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Why do I even try with yahoo?:rolleyes:

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Reply #27 on: August 31, 2005, 02:26:58 am


Levee is breached, fall back everyone!



Holy itty bitty hell, look at that flooding.




That city is completly and utterly gone.
 

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Reply #28 on: August 31, 2005, 02:58:22 am
who builds a city, a coastal city, 20 feet below sea level and is suprised when it gets flooded?
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Reply #29 on: August 31, 2005, 03:08:59 am
No one, but I suspect thats irrelevent, atleast it is to me. Whats importent is getting the roughly 100K survivors out of there(lack of sanitation,water,food), rebuilding the surrounding counties and dealing with up to 2 million homeless.

In a way, its ironic, the U.S now has more need for aid money then anything, the richest country in the world and its qualified for aid money. Then again, even if it gets a few paltry billions, since roughly a billion gets squandered elsewhere in the world daily *cough* *cough* the U.S dosn't have any proper ability to rebuild the damn city.
 

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Reply #30 on: August 31, 2005, 03:11:01 am
Americans *clap clap* Americans *clap clap* :D

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Reply #31 on: August 31, 2005, 03:11:59 am
Just gets worse every time you see it, really.
 

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Reply #32 on: August 31, 2005, 03:24:09 am


A bloody OIL RIG got smashed there.

Those things are wedded to the ground and it got picked up from the gulf and carried into NO. :wtf:
 

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Reply #33 on: August 31, 2005, 03:28:18 am
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no, that was the lost city of Atlanta


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Reply #34 on: August 31, 2005, 05:19:22 am
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Originally posted by Bobboau
who builds a city, a coastal city, 20 feet below sea level and is suprised when it gets flooded?


The italians? :D

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In a way, its ironic, the U.S now has more need for aid money then anything, the richest country in the world and its qualified for aid money. Then again, even if it gets a few paltry billions, since roughly a billion gets squandered elsewhere in the world daily *cough* *cough* the U.S dosn't have any proper ability to rebuild the damn city.


Didn't they default on the money they promised for the Tsunami appeal? I remember reading that they did somewhere. If so I say we all promise them huge amounts of cash and then give them nothing.
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Reply #35 on: August 31, 2005, 06:03:02 am
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who builds a city, a coastal city, 20 feet below sea level and is suprised when it gets flooded?


We have half the country below sea level.


Green= Above Sea Level
Purple=Below Sea level
Yellow= Beaches and Dunes
Blue= Between 0-1m above Sea Level (would flood if the sea raised above it's normal heigt)

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This is what hollland would look like without dikes...

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Most of the Dense populated areas Lie underwater, over 8 million people would lose their homes
 

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Reply #36 on: August 31, 2005, 06:33:27 am
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Reply #37 on: August 31, 2005, 05:35:55 pm
You know, I wonder if those people realise what they wading through to get a pair of pants.

Raw Sewage

Loads of Garbage

Toxic Chemicals

Seawater

Dead People.
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Reply #38 on: August 31, 2005, 05:40:12 pm
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A bloody OIL RIG got smashed there.

Those things are wedded to the ground and it got picked up from the gulf and carried into NO. :wtf:


Yeah, one got washed up on Dolphin Island, Alabama too.
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Reply #39 on: August 31, 2005, 06:24:10 pm
****in hell.
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