Study: Louisiana slipping slowly into Gulf

MSNBC/AP ^ | 01-02-07

[mfnorman]

NEW ORLEANS - A new report by scientists studying Louisiana’s sinking coast says the land here is not just sinking, it’s sliding ever so slowly into the Gulf of Mexico.

The new findings may add a kink to plans being drawn up to build bigger and better levees to protect this historic city and Cajun bayou culture.

If the land is shifting — even slightly — engineers may need to take that into consideration as they build new levees and draw lines across the coast to identify areas that should and shouldn’t be protected.

[mfnorman]

I'm sure we'll hear from Kayne West and Spike Lee about this

[darkwing104]

Bush's fault!

[kjam22]

It' Bush's fault that NO is sinking..... :)

[kjam22]

You beat me by less than a second......

[Fierce Allegiance]

Gotta love Gorebal warming. Yeah, I know it's not the reason, but someone will claim it is!.

Civil Engineers ping. (if you want on or off the list, say the word!)

[EarthBound]

I really, really, really do not understand why we're attempting to rebuild this city where it is and invite nature to re-destroy it. It is my understanding that a great deal of the original infrastructure was completely ruined. Why not rebuild, I don't know, where everything doesn't work against them?

[metesky]

Curse those damned tectonic plates!

[NonValueAdded]

cue Paul Simon

[mtbopfuyn]

Duh! How many of our tax dollars were wasted on that?

[VRWCmember]

They say the only reason Texas doesn't slip into the Gulf of Mexico is because Oklahoma sucks.

[sono]

Obviously, this is W's fault.

[kromike]

I really, really, really do not understand why we're attempting to rebuild this city ...

Because it's a city full of Liberals and as we all know, it's never about what makes sense and it's always about what makes them "feel good".

[Kenton]

Sittin' on a dock in the bay, watching LA slip away...

[Former MSM Viewer]

As a resident of Houston, I just hope for the sake of Louisiana that they never have to ask for help from Texas again...

[Red Badger]

It will continue to be a "Chocolate City"........a Liquid Chocolate City..........

[Red Badger]

is because Oklahoma sucks..........as was proved in the Fiesta Bowl?.........

[TYVets]

The research grant runs out at the end of 2007.

Time to grab headlines for the 2008 money.

[RetiredArmy]

BREAKING NEWS: The Imperial Federal Government led by the Totalitarian Socialist Dimocratic People's Abortion Party of Marxists stated today that New Orleans and the state of Louisiana will be relocated. Socialist Dims are currently in negotiations with senators and congress-critters of their Marxist party to relocate the state and city to other areas of the country. Currently, it is being discussed that areas of Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, eastern Colorado will be taken away to form the new state of Louisiana and the new city of Neu New Orleans. All would be relocated at the expense of the imperial federal government and all jobs and government hand outs, plus a new house for all would be paid for by the RICH of America with a new Neu New Orleans Relocation Tax. More at 11.

[Poundstone]

It would be a lot cheaper to physically move the French Quarter to a new location (theme park?) farther north, then let nature take its course with the rest of New Orleans.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

This "new" study only repeats what we have known in Louisiana for decades (at least). Yet we needed another study? Sheesh.