Check out this article.....notice what date it was published.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282151.html

Check out this article.....notice what was date it was published.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282151.html
Thats is so frightening.

Thanks for sharing that Tex, it was kind of weird reading it and watching CNN at the same time.

An interesting artical. As a grade student in Louisiana we were taught that New Orleans was sinking. I can't remember how much but an inch a year sounds close.

As a student at LSU we learned a lot about the water pumps and levees. It' sad that with this terrible happening the general public knows very little about what was in this artical and certinaly nothing about the local political climate.

Fingers are pointing at the Federal Government for not doing this and that in a timely manner. I'm sure a lot of that is true. If the City had implemented the Homeland Security Plan I'm sure things would have been much better. The big question is WHAT DID THE CITY OF N.O. DO WITH ALL THAT MONEY. We know what Houston did with thier money. It realy paid off helping the people who realy needed it.

I'm gald you posted that artical and I hope a lot of us will read it.

It's time to go to work and there is a lot to be done.

Tiger

Bush willk get the blame for not building better dyke (spelling?) systems even though him and the past presidents of the last century s*** canned the idea because of cost! :(

I have been to New Orleans many times and I knew they were poor, but I had no idea how really poor they really were until now.

If indeed 25% of entire shipping of the USA goes through New Orleans, people there should not be that poor. Just look at NYC, it get only the shipping from the great lakes which is less than 10% of USA shipping.

Something does not compute in my humble opinion. New Orleans SHOULD be as prosperous as NYC if not more.

A popular Canadian band from Ontario, The Tragically Hip, wrote a song recorded on their 1989 albumn entitled "Up To Here"

TRAGICALLY HIP LYRICS

"New Orleans Is Sinking"

Bourbon blues on the street loose and complete
Under skies all smoky blue-green
I can Forksake the dixie dead shake
So we dance the sidewalk clean
My memory is muddy what's this river I'm in
New Orleans is sinking and I don't want to swim

Prophets??? Seers??? or just pointing out the obvious?

I go to New Orleans every year (had to get a refund on this year's package as I was set to go on Sept. 22nd). It is a great party town but all the years I've been going down there I never really knew it was actually two towns - the white, wealthy tourist area of the French Quarter and the mostly black and poor rest of the city.

I've been to the Zoo once but that is as far as I have ever gone out of the Quarter. In all the years I have been going there, I have never rented a car, just walk up and down Bourbon St. drinking beer, listening to music and eating wonderful food. I always stay in a French Quarter hotel and aside from a walk to the casino or Mother's for lunch, I never even get to Canal St. When you party this way, the troubles of New Orleans might as well be as far away as another country; you don't think that just a few blocks away people are suffering in a poverty that should shame America, not just New Orleans.

Katrina was a terrible thing but it has opened my eyes to the real city I have spent so much time in and what it is really about.

Here is another good one from the National Georaphic.

http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/

Tiger

Here is another good one from the National Georaphic.

http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/

Tiger

Excellent article. Bottom line... Don't go up against mother nature and think you are going to win.

I was visiting the Gulf Coast, Orange Beach, until the Tuesday before Katrina hit. The Gulf was as calm as a mill pond and the water temperature was 90 degrees. Maybe an omen of things to come! Riding out to Fort Morgan for the 1st time, it became obvious that a hurricane of any proportion could devastate this narrow strip of land between the Gulf and Mobile Bay. Little did I know that a few days latter we would be glued to the TV watching the nations worst disaster approching landfall. The weather channel stayed on top the storm and all concerned should have paid attention and taken precautions. Let us all pray for those less fortunate and for those no longer with us.