NEWS: Lake Pontchartrain Becomes Lake New Orleans

They have to fix New Orleans. I don't think there's anywhere else like it.

I wanted to go to New Orleans one day. I hope I'll still get the chance.

Sure you will. NOLA 2.0

NOLA 2.0...

It's New Orleans, washed with dirty water and cleaner than ever!

Newer Orleans

New Orleans isn't on the coast. Its 40 miles inland. The water is coming from a lake and a river.

Zing.

Very well then. Living below water level whilst sandwiched between a lake and a river is precarious.

And living in any flood plain is precarious, and living where the temperatures get to 118 or -65 is precarious, and living where there are earthquakes or tornadoes or wildfires or mudslides or you can get 17 inches of snow in an hour and a half is precarious.

Which was my point. The problem here isn't the location, its the 140 mile an hour winds that destroyed a six foot thick concrete flood wall and the fact that the water level of the lake is several feet above where it was before the storm. What you're saying is like pretending that you shouldn't walk down the street because its next to where the cars are and you could get hit. Unfortunately, you have to walk somewhere.

sigh....ok reprobate. We can fight if that will make you feel better.


[Edited on Aug 31, 2005 by Andvari]

Well, I might be a little less touchy if:

a) I wasn't 500 miles from home hoping my house was still there
and
b) You actually made a cogent, informed point.

You're telling me that I should just walk away from my home when you don't actually know where the city even is. You live in Calgary for Christ's sake, which last I checked was pretty inhospitable to human life without massive technological intervention

First of all, let me extend my condolences on the difficult situation you are. The internet brings home the immediacy of a disaster like nothing else and it must be very painful having this unfold around you and not be able to do anything about it. I hope that your family and friends are safe.

My only real point is that when the inevitable rebuidling begins it might be prudent to examine the location or the design of the city and see if better arrangements can't be made. I don't think New Orlean's location was in any way the cause of its difficulties, but it certainly exacerbated them.

We are similiarly misinfomed then.
Calgary may be excessively boring, but if you've mastered fire you can live here pretty easily. It's just that no one really wants to come here unless they're drawn to the oil jobs.

Edit because Gwendolyn forgets to log-in sometimes.

[Edited on Aug 30, 2005 by xRedDan]

New Orleans is threatened by wind and water. Oregon (where I live) is threatned by earth and fire.

I'm not moving. Where am I supposed to go? Name a "safe" place and I'll name a hazard.

Ohdamn.

InfinityPerfect++ Reply Bonus.

This is ignoring degrees. I agree that every place has a hazard, but saying that every hazard is equal is just as incorrect as saying that any place can have no hazard at all.

one of these would be nice



[Edited on Aug 31, 2005 by GramNegative]

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[Edited on Sep 01, 2005 by DragoD]