re: Jay banks (nola city council) suggests flooding is the new normal bc of climate

Can someone access historical data that would show, say, how many 7plus inch rains NO has had in last 50 years. A tall task, I know,

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Getting better at what exactly? Circular speak? She never answers direct questions. 

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I know bro.

My poor Grandmaw is in that oh isn't that nice stage. They are done with thinking and into relaxing, it's all our problems now. They put their work in already.

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How hard can it be to put a unified focus on cleaning out storm drains and repairing or replacing damaged pumps?

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I don’t know current stats but it’s like 72,000 drains in the system and 4(?) cleaning trucks. At least after the August floods I’m near positive of that. I don’t recall the average maintenance time (cleaning, repairing etc...) but it was substantial

Roll in that they feed to broken pipes

And the pumps are an obscene project

And they claim to be near bankrupt at SWB.

I do think the solution is a challenge.

But coming out and saying lightning, and climate change instead of acknowledging ancient broken systems and poor decision making is a huge disservice. In the “if you don’t laugh you’ll cry” category - it came out they overflowed the Lafitte canal by over pumping into it and flooded a bunch of stuff over there. I’m talking consistently overtopping for an hour. When asked about it - the way the building is set up makes it so they can’t see what they are pumping into without going outside and could really use some cameras or sensors instead of just guessing.

We don’t have to radically change the system to get an inch or two off the top of these floods and that saves millions in damage.

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Would you expect anything less considering who’s running the city?

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It’s not just them. Half the country believes this.

It's been flooding since before 1718.

I'd offer that it's flooding less in the last 30-50 yrs.

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I’m surprised they didn’t blame white people for the flooding

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You mean like blowing up the levees in black populated areas during a major hurricane? Who would dream of making an accusation like that?

How fricking ironic is it that Baton Rouge and New Orleans have governmental frick ups with the initials SWB?

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So they didn’t want to walk outside to check the water level?

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Apparently so.

Which I want to give benefit of the doubt and say they were less worried about getting wet but didn’t want to leave the controls... but knowing how little they have there, it’s hard to do it

That kind of comment is going to cause a massive outflow of property owners. If they're literally willing to tell the citizens to "deal with it" then they're throwing in the towel. There's no hope.

Why would anyone want to invest their money in a city that's given up?