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Rewiring (and Unwiring) New Orleans
stinkymountain writes "Is New Orleans bouncing back from Hurricane Katrina with the most advanced telecom system in the country? According to Network World, carriers have invested billions to rebuild the wired and wireless networks in the city, and businesses are taking advantage of new, advanced telecom services."
This story selected and edited by LinuxWorld editor for the day Saied Pinto.
I agree that it's great people are taking advantage of the new services, hopefully some of those will provide the people of New Orleans with their still more pressing needs, like houses, regular supply of goods + services, etc. In case you missed it, a remarkable story of Katrina and its post-effects appears on this blog (no relation). Even current posts there detail how things are still far from normal -- things each of us take for granted are still considered blessings in the affected areas.
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The city is BELOW sea level. Which part of that statement DON'T you understand?
And them freakin yankees and those in the Dakotas and Montana, & Michigan, that choose, mind you, choose to live in weather that requires snowplowing every summer & huge amounts of heating oil to keep warm, well, let em freeze, I say.
Really, you think that the Michigan DOT or the South Dakota state and county governments are asking for federal aid to plow all of their roads every year? Or that the residents in those states don't buy their own heating oil?
Left alone, Detroit may go to hell in a handbasket socially, but it's very like to be under the ocean. And the snow that covers Mitchell, SD every year WILL melt. All the more so, if Al Gore's right. But Huron, SD isn't going to disappear under some layer of Canada if the Army doesn't make a career out of building a wall around it.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
They've had close calls before, and a Katrina-like event was predicted years in advance. It's only a matter of time before it happens again.
-mrxak
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The city is BELOW sea level. Which part of that statement DON'T you understand?
I had trouble understanding the part where the city is NOT BELOW sea level. One of the things I enjoyed pointing out to the fundie nutjobs was that if Katrina really was an act of God against a sinful New Orleans, then their God is not only a pretty shitty hurricane driver (having to flatten three states of shoreline to get there? Please!) but He barely even wet the feet of the whores and drunkards of the French Quarter.
Now, the SUBURBS are below sea level. After the main port city was established, people just kept on building more and more houses, right down into the swamps and even onto blobs of dirt in the Gulf from dredging the Mississippi. The houses out there sit on pilings driven into the ground, not to raise them up over floods, but because even with the swamps drained, the ground isn't stable enough to hold the weight of a house. Of course as the swampland continues to sink, the houses are lifted up off the ground by their pilings, cracking and/or exposing foundataions, so it wasn't like a hurricane was needed in order to reveal how bad an idea that was.
I live in Vegas. We don't really get "weather" here. it rains a couple times a year, and gets a bit windy every now and then, but that's about it... 3000 feet or so above sea level. Floods when it rains, but that is largely conreolled through detention basins... No Tornados, no hurricanes, earthquackes don't generally propagate this far. Nope. I think we're pretty much natural disaster free here.
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Don't kid yourself..it isn't just the 9th ward that isn't seeing any rebuilding action....ANYWHERE that was flooded, is still pretty much dead. I used to live on the very edge (poor side) of the Lakeview area. Last time I was there a month or two ago, I was amazed at how it still looked like an atom bomb had gone off there...that area is still mostly a ghost town too...hardly anyone living there, hardly any rebuilding. A lost of the debris and trash is gone, but, that's about it.
No...for the most part, any part of the city and outskirts that was flooded...is still dead, and I dunno when/if it will come back. Hell, FEMA and the other agencies can't get off their asses to tell everyone officially how much they will have to raise there houses in order to get insurance...
And that brings up insurance...hell, will you be able to get it again?
But, no..it isn't just the poor 9th ward with troubles or New Orleans east...the wealthier parts hit are in just as bad a shape...
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Well, that just about sums it up.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Let's hope the Telco's equipment also works underwater - or is at least water-proof.
Because one thing is sure: New Orleans is going so sink into the ocean rather sooner than later. Just the people (left) living there haven't caught up to the reality, it seems.
Why are ignorant responses like this getting modded up?
New Orleans is not "sinking" by any significant measure. The coastline and wetlands of South Louisiana are eroding, that is true, but all things considered, New Orleans being a few feet (IN SOME AREAS) below sea level is not the precarious dance-with-disaster that some idiots on Fox news may tell you.
If it weren't for the faulty levees built by the Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans would have been fine. The Corps killed the city through their incompetence, and that was before they let things get worse by not acting sooner once the damage had been done. There are levees all over the world that, if they failed, would flood many areas. Rivers swell and man beats them back with levees. Whether you're above or below sea level is moot.
What reality do people living there need to catch up to? Moving into an earthquake, tornado, tsunami, avalanche, mudslide, forest fire, or volcano zone? Boneheaded responses like yours really piss me off. There are natural dangers everywhere, and the people living in New Orleans are no less irresponsible in their choice of where and how to live than any other place in America. In fact, I'd rather have 48 hours warning of impending disaster than wake up in the middle of the night to a 9.0 earthquake!