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9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans?
Cr0w T. Trollbot asks: "It looks like New Orleans is going through something very close to the worst case scenario right now. This somewhat prescient study, written well before the hurricane, describes some of the challenges (engineering and otherwise) facing New Orleans. 'In this hypothetical storm scenario, it is estimated that it would take nine weeks to pump the water out of the city, and only then could assessments begin to determine what buildings were habitable or salvageable. Sewer, water, and the extensive forced drainage pumping systems would be damaged. National authorities would be scrambling to build tent cities to house the hundreds of thousands of refugees unable to return to their homes and without other relocation options.' The hypothetical is looking awful close to reality right now. What can be done about draining and rebuilding New Orleans in light of the massive flooding, and what can be done to prevent and/or lessen such disasters in the future?"
I think there is too much whining and complaining and fretting over this. It's not like this hasn't happened before and it's not like it isn't going to happen again. If my house got destroyed every ten years or so, I would move. It would have to be cheaper than rebuilding and starting over from scratch every few years.
"Either that or maybe the United States will actually address and attempt to fix global warming with this hurricane blow?"
There is certainly a lesson in karma that Louisiana has built it's fortunes in recent decades on being the hub of America's oil and gas based fossil fuel industry, and was devastated by a hurricane whose intensity was fueled by global warming which may be due in part to CO2 emissions. I imagine the wells in the gulf and all those refineries flare off massive quantities of natural gas as CO2.
@de_machina
Why is this story getting posted on Slashdot? I don't see the nerd content, and I don't see how it is different to any of the other storm flooding that is going on in the world all the time.
And let's not even get started on all the people being displaced from their homes and having their lifes endangered by non-weather causes.
Doesn't everyone already know the real reason for the hurricane?
"Yields falsehood when preceded by its own quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its own quotation.
After all, those people up there build their homes where it's cold- if they get hit with 12 feet of snow, tough shit.
And Florida- let them drown in hurricanes.
Hell, Texas is half Migrant anyway, so let them fend for themselves (shoot'em all).
Best place to live? Kansas- just watch out for the tornadoes.
I agree- I'm sick at paying for piss-poor building codes but the union works because we all carry the burden when someone else needs it.
And your tune would change when it's you that needs it.
Or, we can just go conquer some more oil-rich countries.
If you can survive by working 8 hours a day , 5 days a week, you must be subsidized in some way. Either:
- You live in the sticks, in which case my tax dollars subsidize your electricity, your phone service, your roads and your house-purchasing incentives.
- You have a government or academic job, in which case my tax dollars pay your salary more directly.
- You were born rich or were given your job by family. Thank daddy.
I work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week as a software developer and system admin. If you work less than that, chances are you're being subsidized, so don't knock it unless you really do work for a living and aren't on some 9 to 5 vaction your whole life.I've seen a lot of things, but I've never been a witness.
We get hundreds of thousands of undocumented Mexicans entering the US illegally every year, any number of which could be drug dealers, terrorists, or spies. A few Venezuelan spies infiltrating a group of relief workers would be a drop in the ocean in comparison.
Kind of ironic that the first city to fall victim to global warming should be in the nation that is probably #1 of the main culprits.
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
Lets see, where to begin:
CONDEMNED
excessive
area (!)
rains
bulldozed
I think that about covers it.
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
Woah..
Maybe we'll have a War on Hurricanes now! We can spend billions to build floating fortresses armed with nuclear missiles to blow the hurricanes to smithereens!! Sure, we'll have fallout and it might not even stop the hurricanes, but that's not our fault. Either the hurricanes are with us or against us. We can set up border patrols to make sure nobody's transporting any hurricanes in their shoes or pockets. Then, to distract attention from the ineffective War on Hurricanes, we could launch an all out pre-emptive surprise attack on dolphins. We'll say we thought they were planning an attack on our fisheries. Then when we find out they were eating wild fish, we'll just say they were harboring Hurricanes.
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Do you think any office worker who puts in a 10-hour day actually does more than 3 hours of work?
-Colin
The Dutch don't get hurricanes.
They call it "just a small gale", because they have them once a week and are used to it.
Saw this in a yahoo new story:
"I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago," said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour after touring the destruction by air Tuesday.
WTF? This is a terrible disaster, but I'm guessing Hiroshima didn't look like it had been flooded by the ocean after being hit by a hurricane. Hiroshima was leveled by a NUCLEAR BOMB. Big difference. I'm not sure what's more amazing, that the governor of a state would make such a ridiculous comparison or that a reporter wouldn't just let the remark slip by.
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Hurricanes build up by drawing energy from warm water. Warmer water = stronger hurricane. Specifically warmer ocean water = more and stronger hurricanes. We've just started to see the effects of global warming. Get ready for much more.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
5) Roxy Music - Like A Hurricane
4) The Surfaris - Wipeout
3) Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
2) Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
and of course #1 by the Hip was already mentioned...
"...but you've got to laugh to prevent yourself from crying." - TPOH