OT: God hates New Orleans

[sdduuuude]

[quote=urbanrealtor]Lots of people have complained that putting a city in Hurricane alley is a bad idea.[/quote]

Putting a city below sea level in a hurricane alley is even worse.

I love New Orleans, also, but it really shoud be A) filled in like Seattle 100 years ago or B) Abandoned.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Dan: Mountain View, baby! Dad worked at Ford Aerospace in Palo Alto (now Loral/L3) and I went to school at St. Joe’s in LAH and St. Francis HS in Mountain View.[/quote]

Weird.

My family is from there and still owns a real estate company there.

They have been doing this thing of ours for like a century. You and my father (and 2 cousins, and several friends) went to the same highschool.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Dan: Mountain View, baby! Dad worked at Ford Aerospace in Palo Alto (now Loral/L3) and I went to school at St. Joe’s in LAH and St. Francis HS in Mountain View.[/quote]

Weird.

My family is from there and still owns a real estate company there.

They have been doing this thing of ours for like a century. You and my father (and 2 cousins, and several friends) went to the same highschool.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Dan: Mountain View, baby! Dad worked at Ford Aerospace in Palo Alto (now Loral/L3) and I went to school at St. Joe’s in LAH and St. Francis HS in Mountain View.[/quote]

Weird.

My family is from there and still owns a real estate company there.

They have been doing this thing of ours for like a century. You and my father (and 2 cousins, and several friends) went to the same highschool.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Dan: Mountain View, baby! Dad worked at Ford Aerospace in Palo Alto (now Loral/L3) and I went to school at St. Joe’s in LAH and St. Francis HS in Mountain View.[/quote]

Weird.

My family is from there and still owns a real estate company there.

They have been doing this thing of ours for like a century. You and my father (and 2 cousins, and several friends) went to the same highschool.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Dan: Mountain View, baby! Dad worked at Ford Aerospace in Palo Alto (now Loral/L3) and I went to school at St. Joe’s in LAH and St. Francis HS in Mountain View.[/quote]

Weird.

My family is from there and still owns a real estate company there.

They have been doing this thing of ours for like a century. You and my father (and 2 cousins, and several friends) went to the same highschool.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=sdduuuude][quote=urbanrealtor]Lots of people have complained that putting a city in Hurricane alley is a bad idea.[/quote]

Putting a city below sea level in a hurricane alley is even worse.

I love New Orleans, also, but it really shoud be A) filled in like Seattle 100 years ago or B) Abandoned.[/quote]

While were at it, why don’t we put SF somewhere that is not A: on sand or B: on the San Andreas.

Answer: Because it would cost more in a shot than fixing the entire city after a disaster. If there ever were a disaster so dire as to make the city totally unusable an irreparable, then moving or heavily modifying it would make sense.

The same logic applies here. Until repairing gets more expensive than major structural operations (or abandonment), then it is unlikely to be undertaken.

Differences of several billion dollars make a difference.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=sdduuuude][quote=urbanrealtor]Lots of people have complained that putting a city in Hurricane alley is a bad idea.[/quote]

Putting a city below sea level in a hurricane alley is even worse.

I love New Orleans, also, but it really shoud be A) filled in like Seattle 100 years ago or B) Abandoned.[/quote]

While were at it, why don’t we put SF somewhere that is not A: on sand or B: on the San Andreas.

Answer: Because it would cost more in a shot than fixing the entire city after a disaster. If there ever were a disaster so dire as to make the city totally unusable an irreparable, then moving or heavily modifying it would make sense.

The same logic applies here. Until repairing gets more expensive than major structural operations (or abandonment), then it is unlikely to be undertaken.

Differences of several billion dollars make a difference.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=sdduuuude][quote=urbanrealtor]Lots of people have complained that putting a city in Hurricane alley is a bad idea.[/quote]

Putting a city below sea level in a hurricane alley is even worse.

I love New Orleans, also, but it really shoud be A) filled in like Seattle 100 years ago or B) Abandoned.[/quote]

While were at it, why don’t we put SF somewhere that is not A: on sand or B: on the San Andreas.

Answer: Because it would cost more in a shot than fixing the entire city after a disaster. If there ever were a disaster so dire as to make the city totally unusable an irreparable, then moving or heavily modifying it would make sense.

The same logic applies here. Until repairing gets more expensive than major structural operations (or abandonment), then it is unlikely to be undertaken.

Differences of several billion dollars make a difference.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=sdduuuude][quote=urbanrealtor]Lots of people have complained that putting a city in Hurricane alley is a bad idea.[/quote]

Putting a city below sea level in a hurricane alley is even worse.

I love New Orleans, also, but it really shoud be A) filled in like Seattle 100 years ago or B) Abandoned.[/quote]

While were at it, why don’t we put SF somewhere that is not A: on sand or B: on the San Andreas.

Answer: Because it would cost more in a shot than fixing the entire city after a disaster. If there ever were a disaster so dire as to make the city totally unusable an irreparable, then moving or heavily modifying it would make sense.

The same logic applies here. Until repairing gets more expensive than major structural operations (or abandonment), then it is unlikely to be undertaken.

Differences of several billion dollars make a difference.

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=sdduuuude][quote=urbanrealtor]Lots of people have complained that putting a city in Hurricane alley is a bad idea.[/quote]

Putting a city below sea level in a hurricane alley is even worse.

I love New Orleans, also, but it really shoud be A) filled in like Seattle 100 years ago or B) Abandoned.[/quote]

While were at it, why don’t we put SF somewhere that is not A: on sand or B: on the San Andreas.

Answer: Because it would cost more in a shot than fixing the entire city after a disaster. If there ever were a disaster so dire as to make the city totally unusable an irreparable, then moving or heavily modifying it would make sense.

The same logic applies here. Until repairing gets more expensive than major structural operations (or abandonment), then it is unlikely to be undertaken.

Differences of several billion dollars make a difference.

[DWCAP]

God doesnt hate New Orleans, the federal government does. First off was the just horrible response to katrina, but we all know about that. How the hell did news crews get to the superdome in 1 day and it took 5 for the army? The excuse that they wernt expecting it is BS, every major new network was talking about it 24-48 hours BEFORE it made landfall.

But even more than that, there is the old river diversion project to keep the Mississippi river in New Orleans. It should be flowing alittle to the west now in what use to be the Atchafalaya river channel. Instead, the army corp of Engenidiots and our oh so smart congress (I hold the real comptemt for the elected officals) decided that they should mess with the situtation. Now a majority of the Mississippi goes down a channel it shouldn’t be. Add in the poorly designed shipping channels that have been added into the area and the lack of levy maintaince and repair (due mostly to the high costs) plus the loss of the wetlands that traditionally protected this area and it should be no wonder that everything falls apart every few years.
New Orleans is a great city I am sure. The culture and the food and the girls gone wild activities all make for a huge attraction. But the very idea that we can “reform” nature and keep it incheck indefinatily (on a shoe string budget to boot) is just retarded.
Considering the negative aspects of that subculture, (crime, corruption, racism, institutionalized poverty) and we should be expecting this kinda stuff every few years. Eventually it will kinda be like twisters somewhere in the Midwest, it’ll be front page for a day and then forgotten tomorrow because everyone knows it is just happen again soon.

A short intro on the old river stuff:
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/oldriver.htm

[DWCAP]

God doesnt hate New Orleans, the federal government does. First off was the just horrible response to katrina, but we all know about that. How the hell did news crews get to the superdome in 1 day and it took 5 for the army? The excuse that they wernt expecting it is BS, every major new network was talking about it 24-48 hours BEFORE it made landfall.

But even more than that, there is the old river diversion project to keep the Mississippi river in New Orleans. It should be flowing alittle to the west now in what use to be the Atchafalaya river channel. Instead, the army corp of Engenidiots and our oh so smart congress (I hold the real comptemt for the elected officals) decided that they should mess with the situtation. Now a majority of the Mississippi goes down a channel it shouldn’t be. Add in the poorly designed shipping channels that have been added into the area and the lack of levy maintaince and repair (due mostly to the high costs) plus the loss of the wetlands that traditionally protected this area and it should be no wonder that everything falls apart every few years.
New Orleans is a great city I am sure. The culture and the food and the girls gone wild activities all make for a huge attraction. But the very idea that we can “reform” nature and keep it incheck indefinatily (on a shoe string budget to boot) is just retarded.
Considering the negative aspects of that subculture, (crime, corruption, racism, institutionalized poverty) and we should be expecting this kinda stuff every few years. Eventually it will kinda be like twisters somewhere in the Midwest, it’ll be front page for a day and then forgotten tomorrow because everyone knows it is just happen again soon.

A short intro on the old river stuff:
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/oldriver.htm

[DWCAP]

God doesnt hate New Orleans, the federal government does. First off was the just horrible response to katrina, but we all know about that. How the hell did news crews get to the superdome in 1 day and it took 5 for the army? The excuse that they wernt expecting it is BS, every major new network was talking about it 24-48 hours BEFORE it made landfall.

But even more than that, there is the old river diversion project to keep the Mississippi river in New Orleans. It should be flowing alittle to the west now in what use to be the Atchafalaya river channel. Instead, the army corp of Engenidiots and our oh so smart congress (I hold the real comptemt for the elected officals) decided that they should mess with the situtation. Now a majority of the Mississippi goes down a channel it shouldn’t be. Add in the poorly designed shipping channels that have been added into the area and the lack of levy maintaince and repair (due mostly to the high costs) plus the loss of the wetlands that traditionally protected this area and it should be no wonder that everything falls apart every few years.
New Orleans is a great city I am sure. The culture and the food and the girls gone wild activities all make for a huge attraction. But the very idea that we can “reform” nature and keep it incheck indefinatily (on a shoe string budget to boot) is just retarded.
Considering the negative aspects of that subculture, (crime, corruption, racism, institutionalized poverty) and we should be expecting this kinda stuff every few years. Eventually it will kinda be like twisters somewhere in the Midwest, it’ll be front page for a day and then forgotten tomorrow because everyone knows it is just happen again soon.

A short intro on the old river stuff:
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/oldriver.htm

[DWCAP]

God doesnt hate New Orleans, the federal government does. First off was the just horrible response to katrina, but we all know about that. How the hell did news crews get to the superdome in 1 day and it took 5 for the army? The excuse that they wernt expecting it is BS, every major new network was talking about it 24-48 hours BEFORE it made landfall.

But even more than that, there is the old river diversion project to keep the Mississippi river in New Orleans. It should be flowing alittle to the west now in what use to be the Atchafalaya river channel. Instead, the army corp of Engenidiots and our oh so smart congress (I hold the real comptemt for the elected officals) decided that they should mess with the situtation. Now a majority of the Mississippi goes down a channel it shouldn’t be. Add in the poorly designed shipping channels that have been added into the area and the lack of levy maintaince and repair (due mostly to the high costs) plus the loss of the wetlands that traditionally protected this area and it should be no wonder that everything falls apart every few years.
New Orleans is a great city I am sure. The culture and the food and the girls gone wild activities all make for a huge attraction. But the very idea that we can “reform” nature and keep it incheck indefinatily (on a shoe string budget to boot) is just retarded.
Considering the negative aspects of that subculture, (crime, corruption, racism, institutionalized poverty) and we should be expecting this kinda stuff every few years. Eventually it will kinda be like twisters somewhere in the Midwest, it’ll be front page for a day and then forgotten tomorrow because everyone knows it is just happen again soon.

A short intro on the old river stuff:
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/oldriver.htm

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