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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?"
And this article is related to technology news...how?
I have sympathy for the citizens, for sure, but...if I want news on New Orleans, I'll read a paper.
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.
Wild subhuman Negroes are on an uncontrolled rampage. Now is the time to take advantage of the law and shoot to kill. Kill all looters; it is your civic duty!
Do not aim for the limbs. First choice should be a clean head shot, else a clear shot to the upper torso may suffice. The intention is not to scare the Negroes. The intention is to eliminate the problem once and for all.
Shoot the monkeys and save our city!
yeah! nuke the gay pagan hurricane terrorists!
"We thought New Orleans had always been this crappy."
"That's not looting, it's local color!"
"Home of pirates, drunks, and whores!"
How we know is more important than what we know.
"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.
As a Democrat I can't help but be happy at the death of these Red State bigots. :)
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I mean all they do is hate blacks and gays and rape their own daughters and then pray to that Santa Claus, Jesus. They are barely fucking human.
The more of them that die the less of them can vote and the better off the species will be.
Just wait till Hillary wins and we can finally start a final solution to these Red State vermin.
I am so happy they died.
'nuff asked.
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.
I suppose you all live somewhere where a natural disaster couldn't possibly ever happen?
I do, so tough nuts to those that don't. It is really really easy to move within the US. If you are too lazy to do it, screw you when the big one hits. If you live underwater, you had better grow some gills.
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.
But with all the industrial waste, sewage, and oil spilled everywhere, even if they do pump the water out and re-build, the place will be completely toxic, and un-inhabitable. I say just build a wall around it, and call it good. If everyone has to re-build anyway, then they can rebuild north.
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.
George Bush and the new imperialism != the US. I live in the US and happen to believe that his tyrannical worthlessness and the anti-intellectualism that he stands for does not speak for me. Just because some people speculate about the possibility of the leaders of our country being complete and total liars and fuckwits doesn't make them un-american.
So why do you go suck Matt Drudge's dick, jackass.
Read the only personal Runyon page out there.
All I'm saying is that you people are so filled with hatred for G.W. Bush that you can't even resist hijacking a thread about a hurricane to start shit-talking about politics. Can't you leave the dead in New Orleans in peace without walking all over their bodies to make the same political point that you make every time anything happens in the world?
Shame on Google.
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.
yeah, so you can be more easily outsourced. pretty soon the only jobs in america will be crate unloader and television producer (no need for actors with reality tv, after all), especially after the oil peaks and the cleanup costs from this fuckup screw us all in the ass. christ, we're all going to take in the rectum for this one.
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.
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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