re: New Orleans s not only sinking, but it is also being engulfed by rising seas.

In geology classes there was the discussion about sea level rise and relative sea level rise. Relative sea level rise is when the land is sinking relative to a static sea level. Hence relative sea level rise (and a landward shift of coastal onlap). Another concept we studied was interpretation of subsurface sediments. River born or coastal sediments can be found thousands of feet below the surface. This wouldn't happen unless the land was sinking. I would put much less stock in rising sea levels as opposed to subsiding land. The Mississippi finds its way to the sea where it does because that is the topographic low and sinking. Otherwise who knows, it could find its way to the ocean some other way.

No, sea levels aren't rising. Not any measurable amount,though.

couldn't happen to a better place

New Orleans sinking puts me on Team Global Warming. Cesspool of a city.

But then we’d have to live in Baton Rouge. *shudders*

NOLA needs a cleansing.....bigtime!

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Baton Rouge isn't sinking and is on relatively high ground.

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But Baton Rouge sucks. NOLA has a much better vibe and is immeasurably more fun.

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Why not just relocate farther up north of Louisiana? Build a new city with modern technology is the way to go.

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We’ve been hearing this environmental BS since the mid 80’s. I can’t tell you how many times we’ve been told we would be underwater by the year 2000.

I guess someone doesn’t understand the immense importance of the Port of New Orleans to the USA, as a whole.

New Orleans became a very important city to Spain, France, and ultimately the USA with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

The Port of New Orleans is one of the largest ports in the United States.

The Port connects 14,500 miles of inland waterways in the US to the Gulf of Mexico.

Cargo from 30 different States move through the port of New Orleans as well as 190 countries world wide.

The Mississippi River is 50 feet deep at the port allowing very large Ocean going vessels to arrive, and depart from the port.

The port is the primary port for Steel, and other important metals, petroleum and other chemicals, grain, soybean, corn, and other agricultural products grown in the nations heartland.


But…. Other than that, sure…. Let’s move New Orleans. lol. So freaking dumb!!!

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New Orleans is built on soft, marshy land formed by centuries of Mississippi River sediment," Scott Ploof wrote for the magazine. "Over time, that land naturally compresses and sinks, a process called subsidence. But it's not just nature at work here — human intervention has made it worse."

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And ploof, NOLA is gone!

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I have weird flashbacks of that scenario.

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Same here.

I remember going to a few Saints games at Tiger Stadium after Katrina.

It was a disaster of course Saints were stuck in rebuild years after finally winning a playoff game in 2002. Saints got sloppy and Haslett got too comfortable and had to be fired at the end of the 2005 season, but on the bright side, change brought us Sean Payton and Drew Brees and a championship in 2010.


I also remember Tom Benson having words with Lee Zurik under the stadium after a hard line of questioning if the team was moving to San Antonio since the other home games not played at Tiger stadium were played there.