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Apparently conditions there ar egetting worse. News sources are saying Martial Law has been declared in the city:
- PonyBoy0
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I'm watching the news on this one... New Orleans people - prayers and best wishes...
... 80% of that city is underwater? It's insane the pictures I'm looking at right now....
... you can't see the mississippi cuz it's blended w/the flood waters...
... insanity.
- ********0
Crocs and Gators are gonna' be everywhere when the actual rain and sun come back.
x_x
- mg330
You know what martial law means, right?
It means that guys like this are now protecting your block.
- ********0
Pirates RULE!!!!!!!!!
- mg330
I've never understood the ol' missisip. They say it has a mind of it's own, wants to go it's own way, etc.
Water doesn't think, make it's own decisions. Or does it?
- ********0
I summon the ghosts of all smugglers, gamblers, prostitutes and pirates of Louisiana to protect the good people's stuff from Looters!
- PonyBoy0
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food and water are exceptionally low... thousands of homes are obviously gone...
... I got a buddy going to med school down there - she was all worried that this hurricane would kick her out of her house - because New Orleans is like a big drainage basin - all the water just flows right in...
... fuck... i'm all worried.
Redcross donations? anyone got any links for collections to help this out?
- cosmo0
all my buddies live out there. :(
- pavlovs_dog0
...as fer looting, this anit your garden variety detroit riot. trapped there, i'd be pillaging the corner store too (for food and booze).
- CyBrainX0
Of course I'm worried about people losing their lives and all, but what about all those fantastic old houses in the French Quarter?
- fullerc0
80% of that city is underwater?
... insanity.
PonyBoy
(Aug 30 05, 12:24)
Why build a city below sea level? What did they expect?
- ********0
There are plenty of cities below sea-level in the world, but that doesn't mean they lie on a Hurricane Belt.
- stewart0
over 25% of the Netherlands is below sea level.
with bigger cities as Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam, Lutjebroek...
crazy.
- PonyBoy0
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fuller... dumb comment.
as noted by some other NT'ers - lots of the world is below sea level as far a domestic society goes...
... New Orleans etc... these towns have been around a couple hundred years at least... and are established cities - I don't think when early Americans were settling cities that they were really concerned with their sea-level location... they were more concerned about going up and down the Mississippi... open trade roots.
- fullerc0
they just didn't whip out their GPS units and look up the sea level????
IT'S UNDER SEA LEVEL!!!! YOU KNOW WHERE IT'S GOING TO BE IN A 100 YEARS?? UNDER SEA LEVEL??? YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS IT'S UNDER WATER! OH OHH!!! OHHH!!!!!! OHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
*said in my best Sam Kinison accent.
- ********0
Fella's, easy. Obviously human endeavors have pushed the sea back down there. The US Army Corps of Engineers are mostly responsible for created this. Before this time, the coastline was much further back. Don't forget that a ton of sediment gets dumped into the Mississippi Delta each year there. It's mostly in response to that as I remember.
- Point50
It's not looking good down there at all. I really feel for those people out there. I have a few friends out there who I hope I can get in contact with in the next few days. What a shitty situation to be in.
- pavlovs_dog0
latest:
the effoert to to fix the breeched levey on lake pontchartrain has been abandoned. ...remaining pumps are expected to fail. ...the water is expected to rise another 15'. nolo is under mandatory evacuation. basically the city is lost.
- ********0
has anyone seen our commander in chief?