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Drowning New Orleans
Scientific American ^
| October 2001
| Mark Fischetti
Posted on 08/28/2005 5:00:35 PM PDT by gitmo
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To: pctech
41
posted on
08/28/2005 5:55:05 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: dennisw
What's that Led Zepplin tune? "When the Levee Breaks"I'm a terrible person. I have been singing that song to myself all day.
42
posted on
08/28/2005 6:01:35 PM PDT
by
radiohead
(Proud member of the 'arrogant supermagt')
To: Mountain Troll
Pretty girl? (not identified yet)
Ignored scientist who holds the secret to averting disaster? (not identified yet)
43
posted on
08/28/2005 6:02:04 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: SoftballMominVA
""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
To: gitmo
From an old Tom Rush recording:
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.
To: NaughtiusMaximus
"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.
46
posted on
08/28/2005 6:06:05 PM PDT
by
combat_boots
(Dug in and not budging an inch. NOT to be schiavoed, greered, or felosed as a patient)
To: gitmo
I once read that one of the largest man made projects on earth is a losing battle to keep the Mississippi River flowing down it's present course. As the river silts up, they just keep raising the levees, and in the end it will all be for naught.
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.
47
posted on
08/28/2005 6:13:16 PM PDT
by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: devane617
Would people really be safe in the SuperDome?
48
posted on
08/28/2005 6:14:46 PM PDT
by
Choose Ye This Day
(I lost my copy of the PNAC Neo-Con agenda. Can someone fax me one?)
To: gitmo
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.
49
posted on
08/28/2005 6:16:32 PM PDT
by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: devane617
I can't believe all the people lined up to get into the SuperDome. TSA must be handling the security at the SuperDome.
50
posted on
08/28/2005 6:17:15 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Let us read from the book of Ruger, chapter 3, verse 57.)
To: pctech
If so, New Orleans is gonna need all the help they can get.
Wonder how much "foreign aid" is is going to be sent here from abroad?
OK, so it was a dumb question.......
51
posted on
08/28/2005 6:17:17 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(I'm tired of idiots and don't have enough ammo to shoot them all.......Jeez, I hate that thought!)
To: Ursus arctos horribilis
To say criminal types will exploit the situation for looting and a myriad of other crimes is an understatement.Heaven knows I would. ;-)
52
posted on
08/28/2005 6:18:22 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
To: Ursus arctos horribilis
I once read that one of the largest man made projects on earth is a losing battle to keep the Mississippi River flowing down it's present course. As the river silts up, they just keep raising the levees, and in the end it will all be for naught. 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?
53
posted on
08/28/2005 6:21:44 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Let us read from the book of Ruger, chapter 3, verse 57.)
To: SoftballMominVA
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.
54
posted on
08/28/2005 6:23:55 PM PDT
by
sportutegrl
(People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")
To: JerseyHighlander
Wow! Really interesting graphic, although extremely frightening for NO residents.
55
posted on
08/28/2005 6:27:20 PM PDT
by
luv2ski
To: radiohead
I rode out Hurricane Andrew in BR 11 years ago. Cable out, power out. Nothing but battery powered radio playing non-stop REO Speedwagon Riding the Storm Out. Don't the DJ's have another cd?
56
posted on
08/28/2005 6:29:45 PM PDT
by
sportutegrl
(People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")
To: dennisw
What's that Led Zepplin tune? "When the Levee Breaks" "....we'll have nowhere to go."
57
posted on
08/28/2005 6:30:45 PM PDT
by
Jorge
To: sportutegrl
Don't the DJ's have another cd?"Bad Moon Rising" by CCR?
58
posted on
08/28/2005 6:31:44 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Let us read from the book of Ruger, chapter 3, verse 57.)
To: aomagrat
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.
59
posted on
08/28/2005 6:32:30 PM PDT
by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: Ursus arctos horribilis
With a little help from Chinese terrorists.
60
posted on
08/28/2005 6:36:20 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Let us read from the book of Ruger, chapter 3, verse 57.)
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