Posted on 08/30/2021 12:33:03 PM PDT by wardamneagle
When Katrina hit, NO had a population of close to 500,000.
The current population (pre hurricane) is 383,000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans
It looks like it is gonna go down quite a bit one more time.
The lefties say they like cities but they work 24/7 to turn them into third world s^%$holes.
The first place I would think of to loot, As a potential looter, is not a beauty supplies shop.
The owners may have built the place under the Riot Renaissance architectural school (brick, no/small windows), but the doors weren’t strong enough.
NBC needs to send Shep out.
I have not heard much about damage or deaths from the smaller towns like Grand Isle and Port Fourchon and even those towns a bit further east in Plaquemines Parish. Those areas, though many evacuated, must have been flattened and you wonder if there were any deaths along the coastal areas of Louisiana.
Trying to maintain a city 20 feet below sea level.
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Nope...
New orleans averages 6 feet below sea level, its highest point is 20 feet above sea level, about 65% of the city lies below sea level.
https://www.reference.com/geography/far-below-sea-level-new-orleans-690d1df79f841966
Another site I looked up said 8 feet, and apparently part of it sank after being built, it was all originally above sea level according to yet another article.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/how-much-of-louisiana-is-below-sea-level.html
Worldatlas.com says 8 feet.
I originally thought the real number was 12 feet, I thought that was what I looked up after Katrina but I guess my memory is not as good as it once was...
This storm was bad enough that they may not even find the dead for many days...
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thought i heard that on the weather channel....guess i suffer from the same as you!
I don’t remember where I got 12 feet from, maybe weaather channel, I hadn’t shut it down completely when Katrina was being covered...
I just looked it up to confirm it, didn’t want to correct you then turn out to be wrong myself...been there, done that...turns out its not 12 feet after all and I can’t remember where I got that number.
I think those areas generally are in better shape than you would have anticipated. Not “flattened”.
Most evacuated from Grand Isle but the official count is about 40 people stayed. It’s underwater and they can’t contact anybody there according to ABC News just now.
So much for engineered fall distance.
Sold at 12 feet!
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