Wanna bet New Orleans is going to get wiped out again within 3 years? 5?

Question

john - what the h*ll are you talking about???

gary - you're just trying to weasel out of the main issue by playing dumb.....

jeff - pay attention to the question....

jas - where is "2 hours south" ??? do you have homeowners insurance? what company?

Answer 1

put me down for 3 years. 2 years have already passed so that would really be a total of 5 years. Figure with global warming making hurricanes more intense, a category 6 should be on the way. I wonder what property insurance company is still doing business in that area?

Answer 2

You may be right. We have to remember that when Katrina hit land, it was only a Category 3 hurricane. And, almost all the damage came AFTER the hurricane passed by ... water from the north caused the levees from Lake Ponchatrain to break ... not the storm surge from the south.

According the Army Corp of Engineers, the levees are NOT as strong as they were before Katrina hit. It will be one more year before they are up to that strength. If a Category 3 hits in the next 2 years, it will be another disaster. The Corp also has no plans to build up the levees to withstand a Category 4-5 hurricane! It's just a matter of time.

Answer 3

Considering only a small portion of New Orleans actually got wiped out and then 50% of the damage in the city was because two of pump plants in the northern part of the metropolitian area were mechanically knocked off line and have be upgraded since.

I don't believe it will get completely wiped out.

There will be some additional damage if another equally sized storm hits but the low laying areas still have not been rebuilt (for good reason).

Answer 4

If I was a betting man, which I am not, I would take that bet. They have beefed up the levees and other flood control measures and it will take a much worse storm to flood the city again. I don't think it will happen again for a very long time. 50 or 100 years.

Answer 5

i dont think it will get wiped out again i live 2 hours south of NEW Orleans.New Orleans is coming back sowly but they are coming back and they aleardy started building new higer and stronger levees.Hurricane Katria hit at a catorgy 4 and drowned most of New Orleans but the are coming back Louisiana was supposed get 6 billion dollars but 2 billion dollars was lost before they even gave it to New Orleans.

Answer 6

It's just a matter of time....may not be that soon but it will happen. A lot of New Orleans was built on flood plain; it flooded annually until a system was built to drain it so the city could expand. They're stupid for rebuilding these parts of the city.

Answer 7

This is an easy one. If the world gets too hot, we've proven that we can survive it because the "Cradles of Civilization" were in hot, dry areas. If the world gets cold, then we've already proven that we can withstand ice ages, and that's without any "high" technology. If the world gets overpopulated, it will, out of necessity, balance itself out. I don't think we need to worry about surviving the next 100 years. The real question is how to we keep the next 100 years from becoming the next Dark Age.

Answer 8

actually it will be gone in 150 years. sooner if the glaciers melt. the city is sinking at a rate of about an inch a year. subsidence if you remove oil from the ground the ground will sink to close up this void. at present time it's roughly 4 feet below sea Level.

Answer 9

That's a suckers bet. Of course it's going to happen. They still haven't taken care of the actual issue.

Answer 10

yes I'll bet you.
but you probably didnt know that katrina didnt hit new orleans. what destroyed the city was the levees breaking. the storm caused minor damage by comparison.