New Orleans sinking faster than thought.

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Post by Cato » Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:47 am

Mark me down as unconcerned. If it sinks, they move to higher ground.

That's life.

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Post by sschaula » Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:43 am

It'll be interesting to see if anything profound happens over this global warming "catastrophe". I always think that nature is adaptable, and if there's a ton of water being released, it will cause something to happen which stops the ice caps from melting. Maybe the extra humid atmosphere will be better at repairing itself, so that it cools down. Who can guess!

It's just strange to think that these signs could be the beginning of the end for humanity.
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Post by oborden » Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:01 am

Scott, I thought the water being released as the ice caps melted was the problem (bringing down ocean temperatures and causing large scale global cooling)?

I know people are attached to their homes, but they have to see that New Orleans is a lost cause. It’s just a bad place for a city.

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Post by MKFaizi » Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:19 am

Well, it certainly does suck that NOLA is sinking fast. If it was my home town, I would not move back there, no matter how much I might long for familiar surroundings. That is, I might move back there if I could afford a large sea going vessel as home.

I hate to see the town go down but it might, Nagin notwithstanding; chocolate or vanilla or coon-ass.

Too bad because NOLA was home to a certain kind of American culture -- jazz. But, as made obvious on international television, it was also a dirt poor town. Lots of medicaid people; welfare people; people without means of transportation; despair; hopelessness.

Great place for jazz and blues. Mardi Gras -- reminiscent of gaudy parades in India. Regular City of Joy.

I would like to see the city come back. I don't want to see it become a casino town.

But, with the levees in less than optimal shape and the mud sinking, I mean, damn. Third World. I might move there if someone gave me some land and money for a house and guarantee of recompense if a flood or hurricane destroyed my residence. But damned if I would go there on my own funds.

Sadly, NOLA is like Pakistan. Pay me and I might live there.

Otherwise, forget it. Most of the ruins from last hurricane season have not been cleaned up. Still looks like a war zone.

If NOLA wants settlers, settlers need payment or homesteading rights with promise of recompense if the stead is destroyed.

Otherwise, I reckon NOLA needs to move to Nebraska with the Jews.

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Post by Cato » Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:49 pm

Global warming fears are foolish.

Not only can man do nothing to cause or stop it, but it happens so gradually that man will easily adapt. Global warming has happend many times in this earth's history. And man was never there to cause it before.

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Post by Tomas » Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:48 am

I'll be sinking 6-foot-under sometime after my last breath. Later, rather than sooner....

I'm being buried out in the country on our (my) family farmstead. Right near a badger colony and some Indian graves. Yup, when the settlers moved_across the country from white Euro-lands, grandmother Berthea, picked this area to make her stand on the lands of North Dakota.

The Arikara, Hidista, and Mandan Indians were simply told to move onto "the Reservation." The point of a gun barrel worked for some ... the others perished depending upon food, shelter AND the time of seasons. Hot in summer and frigid in winters.

That 'sinking feeling' does wonders for the soul. Pray for a low water table.


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Post by Tharan » Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:09 am

Just think how cool it will be to scuba dive in the area in about 10 years once all the pollution has dissipated.

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