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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Which is pretty good empirical evidence that someone had a idea (experience) that lead them to believe it's a good place to build. Two major hurricanes and they both do a side step around the Big Easy.
I can understand caskets floating,
but not the bodies. Maybe the
report is the floating bodies
of those that tried to holdup
in their homes.
According to TWC:
Engineering now allows underground burial in the sub-sea level city, and floating caskets are a thing of the past. "That no longer really never happens in New Orleans because the land has been drained since the turn of the century. A system of water pumps... drains water out from under the city 24 hours a day." (my emphases)Hmm...lucky we didn't have the caskets floating then?
Is that thing wrapped around that tree in the form of the letter C?
I'm truly an eternal optimist, but this whole series of events was a recipe for some major mortality.
That is not entirely accurate. They raised the grade of the island. I don't exactly remember, but I believe it was a 15 degree grade. For existing buildings, they "lifted" them using jackscrews and, using a vey hugh pipe, pumped wet sand in the spaces below with sand from the ship channel. They also built the seawall for further protection.
Camille killed ~?250?
I think that is per quart.
http://extension.usu.edu/publica/foodpubs/watersto.htm
"Chlorine Treatment: Liquid chlorine bleach can be used to disinfect water for long-term storage. One gallon can be treated by the addition of ¼ teaspoon of liquid chlorine bleach containing 4 to 6 percent sodium hypochlorite. (Most bleaches contain 5.25 percent.) This is equivalent to 16 drops of liquid chlorine bleach."
Whoa ... you've got to be driving pretty fast to wrap your car around a tree like that. I hope that damned fool didn't kill anybody besides himself.
I knew it was too good to last forever.
That may be easier said than done with no power.
"(Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")"
But wasn't that out in the suburbs of Henrico, not in the city?
I spent a month without electricity after Georges in 1998 (Puerto Rico) and I lived in Alabama then but the San Juan Metropolitan Area was without running water for two months after Hugo in 1989 because its main reservoir was damaged.
We're one thousand miles from the mainland so driving to another state is not an option.
What I would do first thing after the winds and the water are gone and everybody is accounted for, is to have a big ol' neighborhood barbeque with everything that's on everybody's fridges and before the beer goes warm.
Then start cleaning and rebuilding.
This year I have a little 1600 watt Yamaha silent gasoline generator that can run my fridge for up to 12 hours on one fuel load.
That's what I'm expecting...I watched the worst part of the hurricane go right over them.
You have to wonder how fast(fool if he was) he was driving or did the hurricane force wrap his vehicle around the tree?
(eyes bugged out)
That's what it'll be. People who got trapped by rising water or accident during the storm.
I know he said his Mother lives in Mississippi. He seems to know all the cities between NO and Miss.
Excellent information. Thanks for the correction.
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