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When will it be time to abandon Grand Isle, Lafitte, lower Plaquemines, etc?
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:25 am
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:25 am
When will the people down there finally agree that, “OK, it’s time to go.”
We have already pumped billions (with a B) over 40 years in the form of insurance payouts, coastal restoration, levees, rebuilding of electric and water infrastructure, with near zero return on investment. How long can we continue to spend like this for the sake of a few thousand people who choose against logic to live there?
I know this is a delicate issue to many and I’m not flaming. But y’all it is NEVER GONNA GET BETTER. It is only going to get worse as the land continues to sink and the ocean continues to rise.
We have already pumped billions (with a B) over 40 years in the form of insurance payouts, coastal restoration, levees, rebuilding of electric and water infrastructure, with near zero return on investment. How long can we continue to spend like this for the sake of a few thousand people who choose against logic to live there?
I know this is a delicate issue to many and I’m not flaming. But y’all it is NEVER GONNA GET BETTER. It is only going to get worse as the land continues to sink and the ocean continues to rise.
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Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:28 am to kciDAtaE
Below sea level building on the ocean sounds like a great idea.
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:30 am to Slippy
About the same time we abandon the War on Poverty/Drugs which dwarfs the B by multiple T’s.
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:30 am to kywildcatfanone
As long as people can earn a living they will live down there
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:31 am to Slippy
Grand isle needs a seawall like Galveston and other coastal cities.
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:31 am to kywildcatfanone
Brah if it were below sea level it would literally be below sea water, all the time. It's 7'.
**Whoopsie. I see you referenced NOLA. That's on me, that's on me.
**Whoopsie. I see you referenced NOLA. That's on me, that's on me.
This post was edited on 9/5/21 at 9:33 am
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:31 am to Slippy
In about 10 years this question will be when will it be time to abandon South Louisiana, a land which will continue sinking into the sea unless a broke America squanders billions to save it through ever complex levees and sediment diversion projects?
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:32 am to Slippy
Is this kinda like when all the northeast dumbasses were on the internet questioning why anyone would live in a flood zone and then proceeded to get flooded out by the exact same storm two days later?
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:33 am to Slippy
When need to get those baws from Dubai to build a barrier island along the SE LA coast.
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:34 am to nicholastiger
quote:everyone who earns a living in Hopedale and Delacroix can do it with a house in Chalmette (or at least on the right side of the flood wall). Just keep their boats down there
As long as people can earn a living they will live down there
These are the people who give us our uneducated and trashy reputation. frick em
This post was edited on 9/5/21 at 9:46 am
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:34 am to Captain Crackysack
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Is this kinda like when all the northeast dumbasses were on the internet questioning why anyone would live in a flood zone and then proceeded to get flooded out by the exact same storm two days later?
Yeah, we should probably raze NYC and Jersey while we’re getting rid of Grand Isle.
Fair is fair.
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:35 am to Slippy
I have been saying since Katrina, only camps and Industry, fishing, oil, etc should be allowed in many of the coastal area.
Plaq for example. No one should have permanent residence below the flood walls.
Move them out and blow the levees.
Plaq for example. No one should have permanent residence below the flood walls.
Move them out and blow the levees.
This post was edited on 9/5/21 at 9:37 am
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:36 am to kciDAtaE
im pretty critical lately of nola but the recovery has been impressive in only a weeks time
if anything this will give people more confidence in it's future.. the people who leave already had one foot out the door anyway
if anything this will give people more confidence in it's future.. the people who leave already had one foot out the door anyway
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:37 am to GREENHEAD22
At some point the water will be over the road 6 months out of the year. I think that will probably be when we shut it down.
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:38 am to rocket31
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im pretty critical lately of nola but the recovery has been impressive in only a weeks time
if anything this will give people more confidence in it's future.. the people who leave already had one foot out the door anyway
But it’s gonna happen again… maybe next week
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:38 am to Slippy
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with near zero return on investment.
How do you know that?
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:41 am to GREENHEAD22
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I have been saying since Katrina, only camps and Industry, fishing, oil, etc should be allowed in many of the coastal area
Believe it or not, there are plenty of people who have called some of those areas home for multiple generations. I don't think they'd go easily. Yes, you have to really want to live down there, to call it home, but those who do, it's in em pretty strong.
Posted on 9/5/21 at 9:42 am to GREENHEAD22
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Plaq for example. No one should have permanent residence below the flood walls.
Like the Morganza Spillway where there are 100's of camps?
What about Fourchon? Should we get rid of the port and all the shipyards and businesses below the flood gates in all parishes while we're at it?
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