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Title: NOLA Redux
Post by: Hawkmoon on July 10, 2019, 04:57:01 PM
Or: Why we don't build cities below sea level.

https://www.apnews.com/4b943cc3691643f39b4ce14074e42537

New Orleans is flooding (again). The surprise is that some people seem to be surprised.
Title: Re: NOLA Redux
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 10, 2019, 11:12:26 PM
Or: Why we don't build cities below sea level.

https://www.apnews.com/4b943cc3691643f39b4ce14074e42537

New Orleans is flooding (again). The surprise is that some people seem to be surprised.

George W. at it again.
Title: Re: NOLA Redux
Post by: Hawkmoon on July 10, 2019, 11:38:57 PM
George W. at it again.

Oh, get off it. It's obviously Trump's fault. Trump and all the climate change deniers.
Title: Re: NOLA Redux
Post by: MechAg94 on July 11, 2019, 10:24:52 AM
One of my coworkers has family there and he is already getting calls about coming his way for an indefinite visit.  He said the Mississippi already real high which doesn't help.  He thinks the main culprit is they don't keep the pump systems get clogged with trash and debris and the streets can drain like they should. 
Title: Re: NOLA Redux
Post by: WLJ on July 11, 2019, 10:44:28 AM
Oh, get off it. It's obviously Trump's fault. Trump and all the climate change deniers.

Trump is using Bush Jr.'s white supremacist weather control device that allows him to create never before seen hurricanes and then steer them into minority neighborhoods. Before someone thinks I'm being silly some crackpots were actually saying this after Katrina
Title: Re: NOLA Redux
Post by: Pb on July 11, 2019, 11:08:36 AM
People shouldn't reclaim lands from the sea to build on.

And after they flood, they shouldn't be build on again.
Title: Re: NOLA Redux
Post by: 230RN on July 11, 2019, 11:46:17 AM
People shouldn't reclaim lands from the sea to build on.

And after they flood, they shouldn't be build on again.

Doesn't that somehow involve the Covenant of the Rainbow?
Title: Re: NOLA Redux
Post by: MechAg94 on July 11, 2019, 12:09:07 PM
People shouldn't reclaim lands from the sea to build on.

And after they flood, they shouldn't be build on again.
They should also actually maintain their drainage equipment.
Title: Re: NOLA Redux
Post by: HankB on July 11, 2019, 02:34:56 PM
Leave it to the evil GOP to build a city below sea level and fill it with Democrats . . . especially the 9th Ward.  >:D
Title: Re: NOLA Redux
Post by: grampster on July 11, 2019, 03:15:46 PM
How many billions or millions of federal tax money was sent to NOLA after the hurrycane?  I wonder how much of that went into flooding prevention?  Or did it mostly go in the pocketsses of the cough ahem honest politicians of the Democrat persuasion who work so hard on behalf of the pore and hungree.
Title: Re: NOLA Redux
Post by: HankB on July 11, 2019, 04:38:08 PM
How many billions or millions of federal tax money was sent to NOLA after the hurrycane?  I wonder how much of that went into flooding prevention?  Or did it mostly go in the pocketsses of the cough ahem honest politicians of the Democrat persuasion who work so hard on behalf of the pore and hungree.
IIRC, funds originally intended to reinforce the dams and levees were instead spent improving access to coastal casinos . . .
Title: Re: NOLA Redux
Post by: RoadKingLarry on July 11, 2019, 04:42:12 PM
They should also actually maintain their drainage equipment.

That would take money away from the social programs that feature drag queens reading to 1st graders and free condoms for 2nd graders.
Title: Re: NOLA Redux
Post by: Andiron on July 11, 2019, 06:07:49 PM
How many billions or millions of federal tax money was sent to NOLA after the hurrycane?  I wonder how much of that went into flooding prevention?  Or did it mostly go in the pocketsses of the cough ahem honest politicians of the Democrat persuasion who work so hard on behalf of the pore and hungree.

IIRC,  it went in that ones congresscritters freezer, not his pockets  >:D
Title: Re: NOLA Redux
Post by: HankB on July 11, 2019, 06:18:35 PM
IIRC,  it went in that ones congresscritters freezer, not his pockets  >:D
What, you've never heard of cold cash?