A second Hurricane Katrina?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:New Orleans is incredibly vulnerable and will keep flooding over and over and over again. Honestly I think we need to stop rebuilding and accept reality.

The reality that the city is 20ft below sea level, and surrounded by tidal waters? That reality?

I don’t think it’s quite 20 feet, but yeah. It’s really stupid to keep putting money into rebuilding parts of the city that will just flood again in a few years.

Completely agree.

[Anonymous]

It's not the winds that will be the problem. It's like what happened in Houston . . . the amount of rain is the issue and it's already started. This is part of climate change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
It's not the winds that will be the problem. It's like what happened in Houston . . . the amount of rain is the issue and it's already started. This is part of climate change.

+1. Again, for the folks in the back, hurricane categories simply designate sustained wind speed, not levels of rain or storm surge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
It's not the winds that will be the problem. It's like what happened in Houston . . . the amount of rain is the issue and it's already started. This is part of climate change.

Check real graphs that date back into the 1800s, not truncated ‘newsy’ ones

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's not the winds that will be the problem. It's like what happened in Houston . . . the amount of rain is the issue and it's already started. This is part of climate change.

Check real graphs that date back into the 1800s, not truncated ‘newsy’ ones

Oh great the climate change deniers have found this thread. I don’t understand why some people are so willfully ignorant.

Praying for New Orleans before this storm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
It's not the winds that will be the problem. It's like what happened in Houston . . . the amount of rain is the issue and it's already started. This is part of climate change.

Not exactly. Houston happened because nearly everything that could be paved was paved and there was nowhere for the water to be absorbed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New Orleans is incredibly vulnerable and will keep flooding over and over and over again. Honestly I think we need to stop rebuilding and accept reality.

The reality that the city is 20ft below sea level, and surrounded by tidal waters? That reality?

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I don’t think it’s quite 20 feet, but yeah. It’s really stupid to keep putting money into rebuilding parts of the city that will just flood again in a few years.

Yup. Also, lower Manhattan. Let's just abandon it. Right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Forgot to add that parts of NOLA are already flooding today.

Parts of New Orleans were flooded yesterday because of intense rainfall (like the DC region on Monday).

After Katrina, parts of New Orleans flooded because the levees failed.

The worry with this tropical storm is that the storm surge will overtop the levees.

Three different, unrelated causes of flooding.