Or Los Angeles and San Francisco could fall off into the Pacific Ocean if the earthquakes keep happening.
Oh, and the sky is falling because chicken little said so.
Another iffa, coulda, woulda, shoulda but hasn't happened yet warning from the doomsayers on the Left.
San Francisco is living on borrowed time.
I can’t imagine anyone would want to invest in real estate in that area.
A big part of that city is going to fall into the ocean very soon.
Actually the disaster in New Orleans is the ignorance of the Corp of Engineers and insurance.
1. The Corp of Engineers has built levees from St. Louis to Venice, Louisiana about 80 miles South of New Orleans. All the sediments that in the past from the Spring flood no longer go out into the marsh and swamp both North and South and East and West of New Orleans. These sediments replenished the marsh and swamp and it acted as a natural barrier to storms. Today all that sediment goes to the mouth of the river and down the continental shelf into the deep of the Gulf of Mexico. The storm levees the Corp of Engineers built around New Orleans were simply sub standard. The Corp of Engineers also dug the Ship Channel which is a straight shot from the Gulf of Mexico into the heart of New Orleans. It is also a straight shot for flood waters if a levee breaks.
2. Then there is the idiocy of Federal subsidized insurance in flood zones. Whole communities were built in areas that should have never been developed. Only the Federal insurance made this possible. It was swamp and should have been left as swamp.
3.Also to blame is the New Orleans public utility commission. The largest river in the United States flows past New Orleans. They choose to pump ground water instead of using river water for New Orleans. It is cheaper to clean up the ground water than river water to make it suitable for people. As a result the former swamp that was about 1 foot above sea level is in places 8 feet below sea level due to ground subsidence due to extraction of water from the underlying aquifers. That former swamp was no longer swamp but the home of about 300 thousand people due to federal insurance.
This was a man made disaster.
If one has a bit of time to play with google earth look at the Atchafalaya Delta south of Morgan City, Louisiana. The Atchafalaya is a distributor river of the Mississippi. It does not have the constraints of the levees that are on the Mississippi. That delta is growing and healthy. Then look at the Mississippi delta below New Orleans. The difference is stark. The Mississippi Delta is eroding. It no longer gets the sediments that keep it stable.
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Circa 1966 my old Geology Professor Dr. Doney said in class, “I do not know when it will happen but New Orleans will flood by Hurricane or Mississipi River levee break.”