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re: Morganza 101 for dummies
Posted on 5/13/11 at 12:26 pm to mgdtiger
Posted on 5/13/11 at 12:26 pm to mgdtiger
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New Orleans exports up to 25% of the nations exports. Louisiana makes up to 25% of the nations petrochemicals. A large portion of that is b/w BR and NO.
I am sure no one is happy anywhere is flooding. Unfortunately you have to make a choice. One choice is from Morganza down the Mississippi. The other is the spillway area downstream on the atchafalaya. Economic impact is not comparable when you compare infrastrucutre loss esp. when 40% of the pop. lives in one area. And a large portion of the petrochem is in this area. As opposed to a lesser amount of pop and a lesser portion of the petrochem. Neither is ideal, nothing is good. Lesser of two evils
agree with this.. but ag overall statewide is a much bigger player in state economy than urbanites and suburbanites realize or care about.
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Posted on 5/13/11 at 12:47 pm to choupiquesushi
Just another fact about the Port of South Louisiana. Taken from Wikipedia which I know isn't the best source but we are talking about an message board argument here.
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The Port of South Louisiana is the largest volume shipping port in the Western Hemisphere and 9th largest in the world.[1] It is the largest bulk cargo port in the world. It extends 54 miles (87 km) along the Mississippi River between New Orleans, Louisiana and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, centering approximately at LaPlace, Louisiana, which serves as the Port's headquarters location. This port is critical for grain shipments from the Midwest, handling some 60% of all raw grain exports.
Posted on 5/13/11 at 1:01 pm to Fratastic423
Chicken should be pleased. This thread is appropriately titled for sure.
Posted on 5/13/11 at 1:11 pm to Kajungee
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Chicken should be pleased. This thread is appropriately titled for sure.
Posted on 5/13/11 at 1:35 pm to choupiquesushi
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to say the port and tourism are a larger part of the economy is assinine and ignorant.
How exactly do you figure?
Louisiana
Total Employment October 2010
1,927.2 (in Thousands)
Total Nonfarm
1,889.3
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities
366.2
Leisure & Hospitality
196.0
LINK
So in terms of raw employment numbers you are very wrong. How about this document from Chase about the state's GDP:
LINK
Not so much there either. So please explain your wild assertion that flies in the face of common knowledge and sense...
Posted on 5/13/11 at 1:38 pm to Fratastic423
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Just another fact about the Port of South Louisiana
Just to add in, that's just the Port of South Louisiana. Technically, the Port of South of Louisiana is considered separate from the New Orleans and Baton Rouge ports. There's also the Plaquemines port as well.
By total volume, the Port of South LA, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Plaquemines rank 1, 6, 14, 15
Posted on 5/13/11 at 1:53 pm to Adam4LSU
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Most of the agriculture in Louisiana is carried by 18wheelers. My family has been farming for the last 3 generations...I know a little about it.
We export most of our rice and Soy Beans, so I guess the trucks drive all the way to Asia.
Posted on 5/13/11 at 2:11 pm to glaucon
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to say the port and tourism are a larger part of the economy is assinine and ignorant.
Agriculture is undoubtedly a large part of LA's economy's, but the thing to consider is the percentage of LA agriculture that will be affected by the morganza spillway. While we would lose a small percentage of ag for a period of time, a catastrophic failure of the river control structure would almost entirely wipe out the port and tourist aspects of our economy. FYI, if you include the total port activity along the river between NOLA and BR, it is the most active port complex on the planet. The scale of a loss of tourism and the port will be much larger than the loss of farmland isolated to the morganza flood plain.
Posted on 5/13/11 at 2:25 pm to STEVED00
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Not really as shitty considering how much La relies on the Port of New Orleans
Which heavily relies on Louisiana agriculture.
Posted on 5/13/11 at 2:34 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Which heavily relies on Louisiana agriculture
The port of New Orleans handles a large part of the agricultural yield of the entire midwest and plains region. Louisiana and US agriculture will still exist even after flooding a strip of land in south Louisiana. Not to trivialize the impact on those that live and work in that region, but their hardship will be much less significant for the US and state economy than a major failure of the levee system in New Orleans or a divergence of the river into a new course.
Posted on 5/13/11 at 3:00 pm to Dumplin
Why not just read up on the different ports "straight from the horse's mouth"?
Port of South Louisiana
Port of New Orleans
Port of Baton Rouge
Port of South Louisiana
Port of New Orleans
Port of Baton Rouge
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