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Also....i learned all i wanted to know and more in 2004 when living in the mountains of NC we went through back to back episodes with Frances and Ivan.
19" of rain in a 24 hour time period...no one escaped that kind of rainfall....though we lived on top of a mountain and therefore had very minimal damage personally, just a couple miles away near the river, there was devastation.
It doesnt matter where a city is located, (tho the storm surge on the coast is obviously much more concerning) if one of these things hits where you are at.....its going to be ugly.
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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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Interesting take, thanks for sharing. It makes a lot of sense when you think about it.
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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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Edmonton is probably praying that Moneyguy visits them sometime this fall.
so long as the levees dont break, then they did their job. If people choose to live there then they need to know what might happen durring a big storm, they might get wet.
Its when the levees break IMO is when its a problem.
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This is a problem all over the world with cities located below are at sea level. I watched a show the other week about venice and all the money they are spending to put gates across the 3 entrances to the venice lagoon.
Oh and in the mean time:
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This is a problem all over the world with cities located below are at sea level. I watched a show the other week about venice and all the money they are spending to put gates across the 3 entrances to the venice lagoon.
This is a problem all over the world with cities located below are at sea level. I watched a show the other week about venice and all the money they are spending to put gates across the 3 entrances to the venice lagoon.
Oh and in the mean time:
If you listen to this with good quality headphones (or if you're properly located between speakers) the music in the outro starts to swirl around the listener (similar to PF On the Run) while the vocal stays in the middle. Pretty mainstream audio engineering these days but it was pretty amazing for the era (1971) and perfect for the subject matter.
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If you listen to this with good quality headphones (or if you're properly located between speakers) the music in the outro starts to swirl around the listener (similar to PF On the Run) while the vocal stays in the middle. Pretty mainstream audio engineering these days but it was pretty amazing for the era (1971) and perfect for the subject matter.
One of the greatest bands ever.
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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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An interesting way to rationalize what is essentially a 'it's great, there's no more poors around cluttering up the streets' argument.
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Not at all. I was going for something that sounded better in my head than materialized on the screen. Has that ever happened to you?
We've been to NOLA before and it was humbling and very sad to see the results of the last big one. They had the fronts of homes marked with an X and numbers to indicate how many people were in that house, and the number who died. We saw water marks that were sometimes 20+ feet high on buildings, and one house where occupants had to cut their way through the roof. That was years after Katrina and a shocking number of houses were still unrepaired.
