New Orleans Now Under Water
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Trey a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 1:14am |
 Coolness: 102855 | the downpour we got today was the remnant of hurricane Katrina |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 4:44am |
 Coolness: 92355 | yeah it came directly to montreal afterwards, albeit, broken up.
here's some pictures courtesy of ctv 
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 5:16am |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 5:45am |
| Coolness: 92355 | Originally posted by JUNGLIST.MURDAH....
yo why would any one build a city under the sea level?? like why waste money on levis that break when you could be living alikkle bit more in land. thats my only question. yo mardis grass in mtl, we're the next frenches place to throw it, hows about bitches crew throw the shit yo, I LOVE THE BITCHES CREW! New Orleans: When the levee breaks Bill Doskoch, [ CTV.ca ] News If you drive into New Orleans from the west, you travel on elevated expressways built on concrete pilings that tower above the swamps and bayous below. New Orleans is sandwiched between Lake Ponchartrain to the north and the Mississippi River, about 160 kilometres north of where the river joins the Gulf of Mexico. The city's location was chosen in part because it was the only patch of relatively high ground along that part of the river, and because of the narrow portage, favoured by the native Indians of the area, between the river and the lake. New Orleans is home to 485,000 people -- about 160,000 less than Winnipeg, a city that also has some familiarity with flooding -- although the area population is 1.3 million. While living in Winnipeg is like living on a tabletop, living in New Orleans is more like being in a sunken soup bowl. The majority of the city is an average of 1.9 metres below sea level -- with the lowest point six metres below sea level and the highest ground still 0.3 metres lower than the sea. Almost half of New Orleans' 907-square-kilometre surface area is comprised of water, not land. Since the area is naturally flood-prone, engineers have worked to build an intricate system of canals, pumps and elevated embankments called levees, which form the bowl, to protect the city. As little as 2.5 centimetres of rain can trigger some degree of local flooding. With its semi-tropical climate, the city gets an average of 90 cm per year. That reality helps explain one colourful aspect of New Orleans and southern Louisiana -- people are buried in aboveground crypts, not underground graves. When the levee breaks Levees exist up and down the Mississippi River valley. Breaches, and the damage and heartbreak that follows, are ingrained in southern folklore. For example, When the Levee Breaks is the name of a 1929 blues tune by Memphis Minnie, made famous by Led Zeppelin. "Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good, When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move," the lyrics warn. The possibility of a levee break in New Orleans led to a mass evacuation of the city as Hurricane Katrina bore down on it. "We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared," New Orleans' Mayor Ray Nagin said Sunday as he issued a mandatory evacuation order. "The storm surge will most likely topple our levee system." Experts had designed the 560 kilometre-long hurricane levee system to withstand a fast-moving Category 3 hurricane, which carries with it a storm surge of up to 5.5 metres. As it crossed the Gulf of Mexico after pummeling south Florida, Katrina was rated a rare Category 5 hurricane, with winds of 280 kilometres per hour and a predicted storm surge of 8.5 metres. Meteorologists thought the storm would bring 38 centimetres of rain too. When Katrina hit early Monday morning, it had been downgraded to a still-dangerous Category 4 storm. As well, when Katrina came ashore it veered to the east, sparing New Orleans a direct hit. But peak winds still hit 160 km/h as Katrina lashed New Orleans for eight hours. On Monday night, residents believed they had escaped major damage. They were wrong. There was one levee break reported earlier in the day at the east end of town, but only localized flooding resulted. However, overnight, there was a failure of a large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee where it connects to the Old Hammond Highway Bridge. The gap -- first reported to be about 60 metres wide, but now about 150 metres -- allowed millions of litres of water from Lake Ponchartrain to flood New Orleans, turning it into an urban swamp. By late afternoon Tuesday, Mayor Nagin reported that 80 per cent of his city was now underwater. Engineers believe high winds pushed water over the levees' top and eroded them from behind, causing the failures. To make matters worse it appeared that the breaches in the levees would not be fixed quickly and may in fact take days to repair. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hopes to plug the breaches by dropping 1,360-kilogram sand bags from twin-rotored CH-53 helicopters. Another plan is to use shipping containers filled with gravel. But it's not going well. "The challenge is an engineering nightmare," Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana told ABC's Good Morning America on Wednesday. "The National Guard has been dropping sandbags into it, but it's like dropping it into a black hole." In addition, there was a report of a pump failure Tuesday night. On Wednesday morning, Blanco called for the complete evacuation of New Orleans. Even after the breaches are plugged, electricity will still have to be restored and the pumps repaired before the long process of pumping the water out of New Orleans can begin. To help matters, however, the army considered creating an opening in a south levee to allow water to drain out. "That way, gravity would work for us," corps spokesman Jim Pogue told Reuters on Tuesday. And once the flooding is over, Michael Brown, head of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, told one U.S. network on Tuesday it could be weeks before people could return to their homes. That's because the floodwaters have turned New Orleans into a toxic soup bowl, with chemicals, human waste and rotting animal carcasses and human corpses all mixing together to make the trapped water highly polluted. At a news conference Tuesday, Blanco said when the city is dried out and roads are restored, people could return to survey their homes, not necessarily live in them. "It's hard to say how many homes may be structurally salvageable," she said. The push is on now to find temporary housing for hundreds of thousands of people who will likely need it for months, not days or weeks. As the song laments: "When the levee breaks, I'll have no place to stay. Mean old levee, taught me to weep and moan." |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» blop a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 8:10am |
 Coolness: 200620 | apparently the gators are eating the corpses. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PonChalice a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 8:35am |
 Coolness: 76345 | now we're talkin |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 1:45pm |
 Coolness: 52520 | [ www.cnn.com ]
they have lots of streaming videos that show the devastation sounds HORRIBLE down there ;_; shootings, people fighting over buses, new dead bodies piling up, dead bodies floating everywhere.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Phoenix a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 2:20pm |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» IMDeadAlready a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 2:48pm |
 Coolness: 45715 | I can't wait for liberals to start saying that Bush was behind it all |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 2:52pm |
| Coolness: 52520 | listening and watching these people begging for their lives and food is sooo unsettling :(
They are starting to get enraged and feel abandoned. I think soon full fledged riots are gonna start |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BA_Baracus a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 3:33pm |
 Coolness: 121125 | very interesting ctv article...didnt know anything about new orleans
bush finally came home from his vacation i wonder how that state voted in 2004 |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ravedave a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 4:07pm |
 Coolness: 131780 | Those who can/want to help, you could donate to
Red Cross - [ www.redcross.org ] or Salvation Army - [ www.salvationarmyusa.org ] |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ikce a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 4:41pm |
 Coolness: 65565 | I don't give a fuck about americain... if they could die in there own shit... that could be fuckin great... the problem is the poor ppl that are stuck in this nightmare.... i won't give a fuckin penny for them... they got enought money... fuck off drop the gaz price and i'll help. But again... poor ppl they are americain, but they are in need to... hope that tings will go better for them... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ikce a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 4:46pm |
| Coolness: 65565 | AND FUCK!!! where is the money question in that?!?!?! Stupid americain!! fuck off! Don't count the money, you don't even should think about it... you got 500 000 person that are dying and the only fuckin thing that they think is there pocket... so fuck them! In fact it should be free... just because ppl think of each other! They are in shit? help them that it... don't even think how many it will cost... its not about money ITS ABOUT LIFE about ppl like you and me. Why money should always be the first thing they think of? Before i saw the injurie is that the word? any way before i saw the injuries ppl report i've saw the "bill" of how many it will cost??? ok so now tell me... you better dead and rich? or poor and alive? How many ppl die in irak...? Do we care of them? ... TRUE americain sukerz that what they are... and i don't talk abour Monsieur Madame tout le monde, i talk about these stupid bad motherfucker lama's licker compagnie and american goverment that make me feel so sick. Everything is bigger when it happen to americain! Yeah... i'm not proud of being canadien, not even Quebecer, but there is one thing! i'm not a americain, god plz save the poor innocent that are stuck in this shit! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PaT_ a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 5:03pm |
| Coolness: 116385 | Originally posted by PETERPARKER...
very interesting ctv article...didnt know anything about new orleans bush finally came home from his vacation i wonder how that state voted in 2004 seriously, it took him a few days till he finally went live. wankster |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 5:08pm |
| Coolness: 52520 | Originally posted by ! PHOENIX !...
Check out these articles from GNN [ www.gnn.tv ] [ www.gnn.tv ] Interesting articles.. Its true.. if most of the armed forces weren't overseas fighting, they may have had more resources to actually save these people.. :/ |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 5:09pm |
| Coolness: 52520 | Originally posted by ECKI...
I don't give a fuck about americain... if they could die in there own shit... that could be fuckin great... the problem is the poor ppl that are stuck in this nightmare.... i won't give a fuckin penny for them... they got enought money... fuck off drop the gaz price and i'll help. But again... poor ppl they are americain, but they are in need to... hope that tings will go better for them... lol very "nice" and "well-written" thoughts there ecki.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Purple_Lee a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 7:00pm |
 Coolness: 238710 | new orleans wil now be true yo it's name
In biking yesterday from 7:30 am till 5:30 pm i got a small taste of Kartina & that was Hardcore........ i feel for those poor folks!!!! Lee |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ikce a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 7:01pm |
| Coolness: 65565 | what i mean... if the U.S.A. are so smart, so big and so rich... why they asking help? Fawk off.. Yeah, its bad for them, and that why i hope that thing for them won`t be worse... they need support i understand that... but i still think they are enought powerfull to get out of this shit without our help... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka a répondu le Thu 1 Sep, 2005 @ 7:11pm |
| Coolness: 52520 | no they can't... because the US is actually in debt because of Retardo using putting most of its resources in the middle east...
I don't understand why its taking so long to bring help to New Orleans. Maybe its the lack of resources.. maybe its the looters and violence. Whatever the cause..This is disgusting.. The videos of people dying in the streets and the freeways is so disturbing :( I feel so bad. |
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