Posted on 08/28/2005 5:00:35 PM PDT by gitmo
THE BOXES are stacked eight feet high and line the walls of the large, windowless room. Inside them are new body bags, 10,000 in all. If a big, slow-moving hurricane crossed the Gulf of Mexico on the right track, it would drive a sea surge that would drown New Orleans under 20 feet of water. "As the water recedes," says Walter Maestri, a local emergency management director, "we expect to find a lot of dead bodies."
New Orleans is a disaster waiting to happen. The city lies below sea level, in a bowl bordered by levees that fend off Lake Pontchartrain to the north and the Mississippi River to the south and west. And because of a damning confluence of factors, the city is sinking further, putting it at increasing flood risk after even minor storms. The low-lying Mississippi Delta, which buffers the city from the gulf, is also rapidly disappearing. A year from now another 25 to 30 square miles of delta marsh-an area the size of Manhattan-will have vanished. An acre disappears every 24 minutes. Each loss gives a storm surge a clearer path to wash over the delta and pour into the bowl, trapping one million people inside and another million in surrounding communities. Extensive evacuation would be impossible because the surging water would cut off the few escape routes. Scientists at Louisiana State University (L.S.U.), who have modeled hundreds of possible storm tracks on advanced computers, predict that more than 100,000 people could die. The body bags wouldnÆt go very far.
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Yes, it is.
I'm a terrible person. I have been singing that song to myself all day.
Pretty girl? (not identified yet)
Ignored scientist who holds the secret to averting disaster? (not identified yet)
""that would be the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port. The LOOP handles 50% of ALL INCOMING PETROLEUM and almost that much in natural gas. The tankers pull up, dump the MidEast oil and the pipes send it on its way.""
sorry but I dont beleive that...i saw where it handles about 1m barrels per day...50% of all imports would be something like 7m barrels per day..i dont buy it
Galveston Flood
It was the year of 1900 that was 60 years ago
Death come'd a howling on the ocean and when death calls you've got to go
Galveston had a sea wall just to keep the water down
But a high tide from the ocean blew the water all over the town.
Wasn't that a mighty storm
Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning
Wasn't that a mighty storm
It blew all the people away.
The sea began to rolling the ships they could not land
I heard a captain crying Oh God save a drowning man
The rain it was a falling and the thunder began to roll
The lightning flashed like Hell-fire and the wind began to blow
The trees fell on the island and the houses gave away
Some they strived and drownded others died every way.
The trains at the station were loaded with the people all leaving town
But the trestle gave way with the water and the trains they went on down
Old death the cruel master when the winds began to blow
Rode in on a team of horses and cried death won't you let me go.
The flood it took my mother it took my brother too
I thought I heard my father cry as I watched my mother go
Old death your hands are clammy when you've got them on my knee
You come and took my mother won't you come back after me?
Wasn't that a mighty storm
Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning
Wasn't that a mighty storm
It blew all the people away.
"Can cockroaches swim?"
There are a lot of pets left behind, I'll bet.
God bless all the people.
And the historic buildings and ante-bellum mansions and the famous burial grounds.
Would people really be safe in the SuperDome?
Has martial law and a curfew been declared in the Big Easy? To say criminal types will exploit the situation for looting and a myriad of other crimes is an understatement.
TSA must be handling the security at the SuperDome.
Wonder how much "foreign aid" is is going to be sent here from abroad?
OK, so it was a dumb question.......
Heaven knows I would. ;-)
Over the eons the Mississippi has alternately changed course between the present one and down through the Atchafalaya Basin, located to the north and west of New Orleans.
Ever read the book "Flood Tide" by Clive Cussler?
The Loop is why we don't have Exxon Valdeze type accidents in Louisiana. Tankers don't have to come to port so less chance of hitting stuff on shore like rocks.
Wow! Really interesting graphic, although extremely frightening for NO residents.
"....we'll have nowhere to go."
"Bad Moon Rising" by CCR?
Can't say I have, but the title smakes of something along the lines of the mighty Mississippi getting it's old route back to the Gulf of Mexico.
With a little help from Chinese terrorists.
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