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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?"
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.
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?
Do you think any office worker who puts in a 10-hour day actually does more than 3 hours of work?
-Colin