New Orleans - Before and After...

[Wing Nut]

Wow!

[Ben_M_K]

Those are just amazing Kevin! It's so sad...I wish all familys involved in this good luck...

[Wing Nut]

oops...  :)

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

I am afraid that link keeps timing out for me...

[ozzy72]

Is it true that people have been shooting at the rescue helicopters? Just this is what they're saying on the Hungarian news and I trust the news service here about as far as I could spit a 747!

[Craig.]

Yes its true Mark.

[pete]

Apparently true - nothing on CNN but

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4205074.stm

[ozzy72]

Flippin' loonies! Risking dozens if not hundreds of other lives so they can steal stuff.......... speaks volumes about New Orleans Bad enough that the lead singer of the Kinks was stabbed there not so long ago trying to prevent a lady being mugged....

[Wing Nut]

And now they're saying Fats Domino has gone missing as well...

[Saitek]

Dear me, that's sad. Can't even imagine the repair bill. I hope everyone had insurance. Most folks here in the UK do.

[Triple_7]

Its a sad thing alright...but it goes to show what happens when you build a major city below sea level...and a huricane with the force of an F3 tornado strikes :-/

Speaking of the huricanes...Anyone know anything about the Typhoon headed for that just hit Taiwan  Not much news about it.  But any info would be apricieated.

[Wing Nut]

The below sea level part isn't the cause of the destruction.  New Orleans used to have about 30 mile of wetland between the city and the Gulf.  Over the years, that has been allowed to erode until there is nothing left of it.  Unfortunately, that wetland is what used to absorb the storm surge from hurricanes in the past.  Without it, all of that water went into the city and the lake, and that caused the levees to break and that's all she wrote.  One more example of man's destruction of nature coming back to bite him in the a$$...

[ozzy72]

True enough Kevin, bit like the Boxing Day tsunami, if people didn't buy bits of coral to take home the reef would have been in one piece and absorbed the worst of the force, where the reef was undamaged waves went in-shore about 10 meters, where it was wrecked it went in a mile!
Homo sapiens really are rather stupid.... just look at some of my family

[Fozzer]

......Homo sapiens really are rather stupid.... just look at some of my family

...thank-you Mark, for those few kind words... ... ... ...!
LOL...!

Actually, quite a large proportion of London is lower than the River Thames, and it's citizens can access a map of areas likely to flood. My Sister lives in Fulham and she is well aware of the dangers of flooding of the city during North Sea surges.

I always amazes me the number of people who live in, and construct buildings on flood plains.... ...!
...and hope to get insurance... ...!

In my town of Hereford, which straddles the River Wye, we are all very well aware that large portions of the lower city regularly get flooded during heavy rains.....
...and guess what...
The ASDA Super-Store group have just obtained Council planning permission to build a massive super-store, car park, houses, flats, pharmacist, etc, etc....
...right on this low-level flood plain...!

I'm thinking, "How many of the people who purchase these properties will never get insurance for flood damage"...!!

The insurance companies are well aware of areas where flooding can occur, and anyone stupid enough to build there are asking for problems...!

Every time I look at ground level photo's of New York from Manhattan Island,  I am reminded that the city appears to be about two inches above sea-level...if that... ...!

Cheers all...!

Paul...My house?...about 350 feet ASL...Sorted.... ... ...!

[ozzy72]

Why do you think I want to have a house on the side of the hill overlooking the wet ones Paul?