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URGENT: Latest photos of New Orleans flooding
Yahoo News Photos ^ | 8/30/05

Posted on 08/30/2005 12:46:00 PM PDT by Wolfstar

The morning's collection of flooding conditions in New Orleans. There were few fresh photos of other devastated areas available in the short time I had available to collect these. Will try to update this thread later.

These photos are being posted especially for the benefit of FReepers and others who may have relatives or friends in the area, and who may not be able to get images any other way.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: flooding; hurricane; katrina; neworleans; photos
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To: laishly
Well, the Dutch started doing this centuries ago--and on a far grander scale.

Actually the Egyptians did, bigger and grander, a few millenia before.
Alexandria

Actually this is a fascinating subject, but perhaps more appropriate on a separate thread.
There are several dynamics at work. Yes, silt is getting carried out to sea, but also deposited in and around NO the whole time. The "filled-in" area is a long ways further into the gulf than it was 500 years ago. How the "new" land later settles and becomes lower than the river is a whole other dynamic.

81 posted on 08/30/2005 2:08:07 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
re: New Orleans under water

Maybe it was a bad idea to build an orgiastic party city below sea level, eh?

Who ya gonna call?

Maybe you ought to call your school and kick their @$$ for not teaching you history.

82 posted on 08/30/2005 2:08:46 PM PDT by Nov3 ("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
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To: jpsb
Called "liquefaction" of the soil - where water comes up through the soil and mixes with it ...
83 posted on 08/30/2005 2:09:29 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: conserv13

For the worst-case sceanrio, look at the pictures from Gulfport, MS. And imagine that type of wind destruction on top of higher water levels.


84 posted on 08/30/2005 2:13:12 PM PDT by TravisBickle (Are you talking to me?)
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To: Wolfstar

Looking at photos of looters and saw breaking news about still rising waters and the mayor ordering all of NO evacuated.

First of all, nice going, Mayor! Talk about waiting until the cows are out before shutting the barn door!

Now, I wonder where the looters are going to store those nice plasma televisions and electronics since they have no cars to drive and their entire houses will probably be underwater soon.


85 posted on 08/30/2005 2:14:11 PM PDT by Muzzle_em (I'm an island awash in a sea of stupidity)
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To: ordinaryguy
"Ah, so people have been complaining that other nations aren't sending aid (although they have in past hurricanes). When they do offer aid, then people will turn up their noses at it, and point out that we have the resources right here in this country, and don't need outside help.
Nice."

Let the other nations return the billions of dollars
in aid we've given them. We don't actually need them
here in America helping us.

86 posted on 08/30/2005 2:14:47 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: BenLurkin

I thought of that too.
It certainly looks hopeless as of 5:15 today.
The amazing thing is that if and when all of this is cleaned up, property values will skyrocket and folks will be snapping it up! Seems to have happened after all the storms last year in FL.


88 posted on 08/30/2005 2:16:57 PM PDT by Muzzle_em (I'm an island awash in a sea of stupidity)
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To: Publius6961
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416925/posts

Controversial NOAA report says Louisiana's shores plunging fast — are Texas' next?

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Instead of minimal geologic subsidence along most of the Louisiana coast, as previously thought, the state's entire coastal region is sinking at least 5 feet every century.

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"You're draining almost the entire North American continent into the Gulf," Berman said. "The cumulative weight of that is immense."

So immense, in fact, that the Gulf of Mexico is pushing down on the Earth's crust, making an indent. For coastal regions along the Gulf, it's like being at the edge of a trampoline with a bowling ball weighing down the center: The natural inclination is to slide toward the center. The toothpastelike shale layer facilitates the slide, Berman said. Geologists call it gravity gliding.

89 posted on 08/30/2005 2:18:27 PM PDT by ordinaryguy
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Load 'em up. Move 'em out.

90 posted on 08/30/2005 2:19:18 PM PDT by evets (God bless president Bush!)
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To: webstersII

I'm sure the levee repair was "pocket change" compared to what it will cost NOW! Typical GOVERNMENT BEAUROCRATIC B.S.!!!!


91 posted on 08/30/2005 2:21:19 PM PDT by Muzzle_em (I'm an island awash in a sea of stupidity)
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To: auto power

You've been listening to Art Bell too much.


92 posted on 08/30/2005 2:22:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: The Red Zone
How can a city sink like that and not have problems with the integrity of building foundations?

They do have problems. A friend who was raised there said one of the problems with the older structures was chimney collapse. A little loss of integrity in the foundation and the heaviest part of the structure (the chimney) comes crashing down.

93 posted on 08/30/2005 2:24:04 PM PDT by Don Carlos (Me cache en los Moros. (Ancient Spanish curse))
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To: Nov3

Tell that to the tourists and the Superdome refugees. That "history" seems to have come to an unfortunate end, sadly. When did the last building go up?


94 posted on 08/30/2005 2:28:05 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Maybe it was a bad idea to build an orgiastic party city below sea level, eh?

Do those beads float?

95 posted on 08/30/2005 2:36:42 PM PDT by bikepacker67
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To: Wolfstar

Got it; will pay attention to names.


96 posted on 08/30/2005 2:49:15 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: All

BUMP


97 posted on 08/30/2005 3:09:12 PM PDT by kitkat ("We're not going to let anybody frighten us from our great love of freedom." GWB, 7/22/05))
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To: RonF

After Galveston Tx was destroyed by a hurricane in 1900 they built a levee and then jacked up the houses that weren't destroyed and pumped sand underneath them, an amazing operation. They raised the level of the island. Of course New Orleans is a much bigger city and I can't imagine what they can to to fix it.I am distraught over the destruction of a city I love very much.


98 posted on 08/30/2005 3:10:22 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: webstersII

Thanks for the info.


99 posted on 08/30/2005 3:14:52 PM PDT by tiki
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

I kind of understand, we've had leaks in the roof before that we always forgot about except when it rained.


100 posted on 08/30/2005 3:16:31 PM PDT by tiki
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