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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
Whats the point of keeping that city given that it's situated below sea level. Cut your losses and let it go.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/20.../20151526.html
Emergency management officials in low-lying Plaquemines Parish reported the overtopping of the 8 or 9 foot (2.4 or 2.7 meter) high levee between the Braithwaite and White Ditch districts southeast of New Orleans.
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said about 2,000 residents of the area had been ordered to evacuate but only about half were confirmed to have gotten out before Isaac brought driving winds and rain beginning late on Tuesday.
“On the east bank right now, we have reports of people on their roofs and attics and 12 to 14 foot (3.6-4.2 meters) of water (in their homes),” Nungesser told CNN. |
Clearly G.W. Bush isn't reacting to this crisis fast enough.
Seriously, considering the overall context, seems like a small breach.
On the other hand, its not a Category 5 hurricane.
I was talking to some people from New Orleans last year and they were quite happy with where their city was headed, saying Hurricane Katrina, for all its tragedy, had cleaned the city out of its poorest denizens, circulating them out into the rest of the country where they could exit their perpetual poverty cycle, leaving a new New Orleans that had retained its unique culture but was far more compact and invigorated. Their opinion anyway.
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