I am having the same feelings that I had after 911. I looked up at the skyline thousands of times since then and eventually I accepted that yes, they are gone. Now, I feel like an entire American city has disappeared. It is a weird feeling because it isn't some obscure city no one ever heard of but it is the Big Easy!
From what I have read and heard on the news it does not look like there is any way they are going to be able to get this place back. To reclaim NO to where the same exact thing would not happen all over again with the next Cat 3 + hurricane would cost so much money it seems impossible. Like so much of Louisiana, that has already been surrendered to the sea, New Orleans may go the same route.
I am having the same feelings that I had after 911. I looked up at the skyline thousands of times since then and eventually I accepted that yes, they are gone. Now, I feel like an entire American city has disappeared. It is a weird feeling because it isn't some obscure city no one ever heard of but it is the Big Easy!
From what I have read and heard on the news it does not look like there is any way they are going to be able to get this place back. To reclaim NO to where the same exact thing would not happen all over again with the next Cat 3 + hurricane would cost so much money it seems impossible. Like so much of Louisiana, that has already been surrendered to the sea, New Orleans may go the same route.
I've had two chances to go there and both times didn't pan out. I always figured I'd get there eventually.
This is exactly the way I felt about the WTC. I hadn't been up it, but figured I would at some point. It's the absence of death: the finality of no longer having options.
I am having the same feelings that I had after 911. I looked up at the skyline thousands of times since then and eventually I accepted that yes, they are gone. Now, I feel like an entire American city has disappeared. It is a weird feeling because it isn't some obscure city no one ever heard of but it is the Big Easy!
From what I have read and heard on the news it does not look like there is any way they are going to be able to get this place back. To reclaim NO to where the same exact thing would not happen all over again with the next Cat 3 + hurricane would cost so much money it seems impossible. Like so much of Louisiana, that has already been surrendered to the sea, New Orleans may go the same route.
-- Is this thing on?
That area is a major shipping port. I'm sure they are going to try to do something about it! -- Om.
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson
I am having the same feelings that I had after 911. I looked up at the skyline thousands of times since then and eventually I accepted that yes, they are gone. Now, I feel like an entire American city has disappeared. It is a weird feeling because it isn't some obscure city no one ever heard of but it is the Big Easy!
From what I have read and heard on the news it does not look like there is any way they are going to be able to get this place back. To reclaim NO to where the same exact thing would not happen all over again with the next Cat 3 + hurricane would cost so much money it seems impossible. Like so much of Louisiana, that has already been surrendered to the sea, New Orleans may go the same route.
-- Is this thing on?
That area is a major shipping port. I'm sure they are going to try to do something about it!
Like move the ports somewhere that is not under water?
I am having the same feelings that I had after 911. I looked up at the skyline thousands of times since then and eventually I accepted that yes, they are gone. Now, I feel like an entire American city has disappeared. It is a weird feeling because it isn't some obscure city no one ever heard of but it is the Big Easy!
From what I have read and heard on the news it does not look like there is any way they are going to be able to get this place back. To reclaim NO to where the same exact thing would not happen all over again with the next Cat 3 + hurricane would cost so much money it seems impossible. Like so much of Louisiana, that has already been surrendered to the sea, New Orleans may go the same route.
-- Is this thing on?
That area is a major shipping port. I'm sure they are going to try to do something about it!
Like move the ports somewhere that is not under water?
Time will tell. ;-) It'd be smarter.
New Orleans was below sea level after all. With Hurricanes getting worse by the year (changing weather patterns, due to global warming perhaps?) It'd be smarter to move the entire damned city! -- Om.
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson
I am having the same feelings that I had after 911. I looked up at the skyline thousands of times since then and eventually I accepted that yes, they are gone. Now, I feel like an entire American city has disappeared. It is a weird feeling because it isn't some obscure city no one ever heard of but it is the Big Easy!
From what I have read and heard on the news it does not look like there is any way they are going to be able to get this place back. To reclaim NO to where the same exact thing would not happen all over again with the next Cat 3 + hurricane would cost so much money it seems impossible. Like so much of Louisiana, that has already been surrendered to the sea, New Orleans may go the same route.
-- Is this thing on?
That area is a major shipping port. I'm sure they are going to try to do something about it!
"I'm not sure I'm going to get out of here alive," said Canadian tourist Larry Mitzel, who handed a reporter his business card in case he goes missing. "I'm scared of riots. I'm scared of the locals. We might get caught in the crossfire."
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:12:51 -0500, OmManiPadmeOmelet <[email hidden]> wrote in misc.fitness.weights:
Quoted message said:
In article <[email hidden]>,
Joe Humble said:
I am having the same feelings that I had after 911. I looked up at the skyline thousands of times since then and eventually I accepted that yes, they are gone. Now, I feel like an entire American city has disappeared. It is a weird feeling because it isn't some obscure city no one ever heard of but it is the Big Easy!
From what I have read and heard on the news it does not look like there is any way they are going to be able to get this place back. To reclaim NO to where the same exact thing would not happen all over again with the next Cat 3 + hurricane would cost so much money it seems impossible. Like so much of Louisiana, that has already been surrendered to the sea, New Orleans may go the same route.
-- Is this thing on?
That area is a major shipping port. I'm sure they are going to try to do something about it!
I believe NO has been sinking at a steady rate. It might be time to pull up stakes.
In article <[email hidden]>, Joe Humble <[email hidden]> wrote:
> I am having the same feelings that I had after 911. I looked up at > the skyline thousands of times since then and eventually I accepted > that yes, they are gone. Now, I feel like an entire American city has > disappeared. It is a weird feeling because it isn't some obscure city > no one ever heard of but it is the Big Easy! > > From what I have read and heard on the news it does not look like > there is any way they are going to be able to get this place back. To > reclaim NO to where the same exact thing would not happen all over > again with the next Cat 3 + hurricane would cost so much money it > seems impossible. Like so much of Louisiana, that has already been > surrendered to the sea, New Orleans may go the same route. > > > -- > Is this thing on?
That area is a major shipping port. I'm sure they are going to try to do something about it!
Like move the ports somewhere that is not under water?
Time will tell. ;-) It'd be smarter.
New Orleans was below sea level after all. With Hurricanes getting worse by the year (changing weather patterns, due to global warming perhaps?) It'd be smarter to move the entire damned city!
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:12:51 -0500, OmManiPadmeOmelet <[email hidden]> wrote in misc.fitness.weights:
Quoted message said:
In article <[email hidden]>,
Joe Humble said:
I am having the same feelings that I had after 911. I looked up at the skyline thousands of times since then and eventually I accepted that yes, they are gone. Now, I feel like an entire American city has disappeared. It is a weird feeling because it isn't some obscure city no one ever heard of but it is the Big Easy!
From what I have read and heard on the news it does not look like there is any way they are going to be able to get this place back. To reclaim NO to where the same exact thing would not happen all over again with the next Cat 3 + hurricane would cost so much money it seems impossible. Like so much of Louisiana, that has already been surrendered to the sea, New Orleans may go the same route.
-- Is this thing on?
That area is a major shipping port. I'm sure they are going to try to do something about it!
I believe NO has been sinking at a steady rate. It might be time to pull up stakes.
I've caught a couple of documentaries on the situation. In fact, one (I think it was Discovery channel) was done right before Katrina hit. Basically what is happening is that the ocean is rising, the marshes and other barriers to the sea are eroding and the levees were in disrepair. The levees were ONLY certified to handle a cat 3 hurricane and that is IF they were up to the level they were supposed to be, which they were not. The city is not really sinking but the levees are. They did a nice tour of the state to show all the places that have already been surrendered to the sea. This is not a generations long process...I think they said 3 football fields per hour are being lost.
In retrospect this was inevitable and geographically speaking they were one meteorological sneeze away from being under water. Apparently lots of people have been saying this for quite some time. I honestly think this city is gone. Not because it can't be dried out and rebuilt but because the next flooding will be only one cat 3 away.
"Joe Humble" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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I am having the same feelings that I had after 911. I looked up at the skyline thousands of times since then and eventually I accepted that yes, they are gone. Now, I feel like an entire American city has disappeared. It is a weird feeling because it isn't some obscure city no one ever heard of but it is the Big Easy!
From what I have read and heard on the news it does not look like there is any way they are going to be able to get this place back. To reclaim NO to where the same exact thing would not happen all over again with the next Cat 3 + hurricane would cost so much money it seems impossible. Like so much of Louisiana, that has already been surrendered to the sea, New Orleans may go the same route.
If New Orleans had not been alllowed to grow, there would have been no need for the levees, and silt would have continued to deposit in the delta.
