New Orleans. Levees useless again. People on their roofs.

[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.

[handgroen]

The dutch seem to do it fine

[North East Goon]

How do you get rid of a city?

[the-rasta-masta]

The Dutch don't have to worry about hurricanes.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by handgroen

The dutch seem to do it fine

Not sure about the weather in Holland but do they get hit with hurricanes/typhoons often?

[Joborule]

In hindsight, probably not a good idea to have a metropolitan there. The potential for this to occur will always be there.

Makes you wonder why this didn't happen more often in the past through. (Or did it?)

[Regulator75]

Originally Posted by North East Goon

How do you get rid of a city?

Let nature run it's course and stop putting tax band-aids on protecting a sinking city.

[Bobblehead]

Water went over one levee, nothing in the article mentions a breach.

From what I heard this morning, the biggest issue is that the hurricane slowed down and may end up dumping half a meter of rain on the area.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

Let nature run it's course and stop putting tax band-aids on protecting a sinking city.

Didnt they spend billions on building these new levees?

Abandoned New Orleans would be an awesome place to play paintball in the winter though.

[return to the red]

When you get that much rain, any city will flood

[You Need a Thneed]

The new levees are holding. The one that water went over wasn't a new one.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by return to the red

When you get that much rain, any city will flood

Except for cities that aren't prone to a hurricane threats every year.

Winds at 80kmph were knocking down stuff off our buildings in Calgary. I wonder what would happen if we got hit with 100mph wind gusts.

[MoneyGuy]

Crap, we were in Amsterdam seven weeks ago and will be in NOLA a month from today. This is all my fault.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Crap, we were in Amsterdam seven weeks ago and will be in NOLA a month from today. This is all my fault.

?? Did Amsterdam flood when you were there?

[East Coast Flame]

It's a shame, New Orleans is one of my favorite cities I have ever been too. Such an amazing place. There really is nothing like it.

I was down there on the fifth anniversary of Katrina and there were huge sections of the city that were still totally destroyed with no plans to re-build. It was amazing seeing how devastating the hurricane really was, even 5 years later.

[transplant99]

The people that didnt evacuate are ultimately responsible for being in the pickle they find themselves in....this has been coming for almost a week now.

And the hurricane landed some 50 miles from NO, so the city should be relatively unscathed when all is said and done.

Hurricane Isaac is weakening "slightly" as it moves inland over southeastern Louisiana, the National Weather Service said. The storm has maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, and its center is about 50 miles south-southwest of New Orleans. A storm becomes a hurricane when those winds reach 74 mph.

All that being said, hopefully no fatalities and minimal damage are the end game.

[Northendzone]

this is anotehr reason wh the Tragically Hip song should be banned completely......

I am not sure how you get rid of a city........hopefully NO get thru this

[SportsJunky]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Crap, we were in Amsterdam seven weeks ago and will be in NOLA a month from today. This is all my fault.

Humble brag.

[Table 5]

Anyone who wants to let New Orleans go probably hasn't been there yet. Definitely has it's issues, but man is an awesome and unique town.

[Cowperson]

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.

Cowperson