OT: Status of the D-Day Museum in New Orleans ?

Yep - despite the best efforts of many to pretend that they do. One of the washed up Kennedys who wasn't able to pimp the family name beyond a stint in Congress actually pinned Katrina on Bush. I think he was the Kennedy last seen bouncing up and down on his kids' babysitter.

WmB

There was a general lull in the number and ferocity of hurricanes from about 1940 to 1990, we're seeing a return to "normal" storms. What we didn't have before the lull was such massive infrastructure to destroy in hurricane alley.

Google "the little climactic optimum" sometime.

Robert Jr.

Local TV station just announced that "Fats" Domino is among the missing. Too Bad! He probably could have afforded to leave, but leaving "home" is sometimes just too painful. A Professor of mine some years ago pointed to New Orleans as a disaster waiting to happen. He was referring to the city being basically below water level, with that unpronounceable lake to the North and a couple of canals and the river and the ocean, it was just a matter of time till this happened. It's like here in Baltimore, the "Jewel of the Chesapeake". The weather experts say that if a Hurricane comes straight up the Chesapeake we are gonna look like N.O. That one a year ago passed inland but close enough to scare the bejesus out of yours truly and it was losing power by the time it dropped trees on my street. It mike make sense to write N.O. off instead of re-building it. It will probably cost as much to rebuild as to re-locate the people and give industries and businesses a tax break to help with re-locating expenses. If we rebuild it, the location is still it's weakness and sooner or later there will be another Katrina.

Bill Shuey

"William H. Shuey" wrote

It won't be a decision based on logic.

KL

I was in Baltimore earlier this year (April?) and my wife and I were walking around the Inner Harbor when a squall blew in, coinciding with high tide.

Practically all of the wharves and piers were water-covered - just from a squall. I can only imagine what would happen if, as you point out, a hurricane of any intensity were to come up the Chesapeake.

Andy

Wow, now I see the light - thanks! While we are at it lets do some advanced preparation. Of course the 1/3 of the nation's population within 20 miles of a coast line should be immediately moved to avoid hurricanes and tsunamis. All coastal cities evacuated, abandoned and demolished: NYC, Boston, Washington DC, Baltimore (your hometown), Jacksonville, Miami, the Keys, Tampa, Mobile, Lafayette (my hometown), Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Nome. Oh and let's not forget the entire state of Hawaii, to name just a few. What about the earthquake, mud slide and avalanche prone areas? The tornado alleys of the central US? The cities in the flood planes of the major rivers of the US? The ice storm prone Northern states. Let's see, to avoid these pesky and expensive rebuilding efforts of these selfish peoples who dare live in risky environments, we move the entire population of the US to Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Yeah, that should do it. Is there a repellant spray for scorpions and rattle snakes?

I can think of a few exceptions. New England got pummeled quite hard in '55 IIRC. I remember weathering Hazel when a kid and we all remember Agnes here in the Northeast.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

I was afraid I'd hear there was a great shop in New Orleans. I was just looking at an old map of Louisiana tonight and located Lafayette so I know where you are now. We were on the east side when Katrina passed by. No major damage but there are quite a few tree limbs strewn about the neighbourhood. The severest weather was in Adams and Cumberland counties where tornadoes touched down. A few barns passed into history. Those who know Adams County can rest assured that all this was east of Gettysburg.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

whose daughter is a New Orleans fan and was a visitor a couple of years back...

It was pointed out around 1993 when levees upstream broke, it was pointed out again in 2001 in a Corps of Engineers report.....

That's what happens when you live on the water, it can rise up and bite you in the ass. Same thing goes for living in tornado alley, the wind gets all pissy and trashes mobile homes. California you have an area known for earthquakes, mudsildes and wildfires....I geuss the planet doesn't like granola either....;)

Unfortunately you overlook the fact that is THE major port for the US heartland. The Mississippi River system pretty much dictates a port there for economic reasons. The best bet would be to blast the delta and Lake Ponchartrain into a huge harbor, rebuild the port and refinery facilities on at least slightly higher ground with Dutch ctyle seawalls and not rebuild the residential areas in such a stupid place.

I did NOT say there were no bad hurricanes, simply that they were less in number and ferocity in general. You forgot Cecille and David (rapidly followed by Fred).

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Nor the media mircroscope to see the anguish in every victim's eye. People so stupidly believe that their time on earth is so unique, when in fact in is no more or less than a moment in a varied cycle.

Frank

Let's not forget Andrew (91') Got my first field trip out of the agency in that clean up. People were a mess but the alligators, snakes and mosquitos survived just fine!

Bill Shuey

Unfortunately, there is this animal called a developer and he has a tendency to build where ever he can buy the land and then sell to some one who wouldn't know sea level from his knothole. They will probably make a big emotional appeal to "rebuild the birth place of jazz" or some such and common sense will never even enter the argument.

Bill Shuey

I think the problem is not the proximity to water, rather it lies in being below sea level.

Doug Wagner

Perhaps it's time to bring out Blue Thunder ;~(

Perhaps the good Lord was just giving Louisiana an enema. The weird part about Biloxi is that many of them had been through another deadly Cat 5 hurricane before. I spent over four years in Biloxi in the early 1980s (before all the casino boats). There were still old foundations along Hwy

90 from where Camille took down most of the beachfront buildings then. One of the nurses that works for my wife has family down there. She spoke with her brother on the phone before the stork hit and begged him to leave but he said he and his wife and kids were going to ride it out. When she asked what his plan was for flooding and a storm surge, he told her he was going to drag his peerogue up and tie it to the house. If the water got too high, they'd get in the boat and be safe. As of today, no one has heard from any of them. A line from Forrest Gump comes to mind...."I'm not a smart man....."

I can understand a small percentage (a very small percentage) of New Orleanians who physically couldn't evacuate but I don't think that 10,000 people fell into that category. Of course, I suspect that some of them knew that if they left, they wouldn't be able to get back in to loot and steal. I remember all the announcements prior to the hurricane coming ashore that warned people to evacuate. They also warned that, if the people of NO didn't evacuate before the storm hits, they will be without power for an extended period of time. will be without food and water and emergency services personnel would not be able to reach them for an extended period of time. Sooooo, why did 10,000 people not heed the warnings and evacuate? Beats me? Why are they surprised that it's taking a while to get emergency services to these people? Beats me?

Why not? Their ancestors lived there before the coming of the erect-walking apes. On the news tonight I heard the Guard talking about the various poisonous snakes in the area that workers are going to have to deal with. "You too can be on Wild Kingdom!" Oooo, I hate snakes!

Bill Banaszak, MFE