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If they move back they are on their own.

New Orleans is a democrat town and little will go as planned. On a positive note for the defeated president, Ida will take Afghanistan off as the lead story for a few days.

Has NO been keeping up with the pump maintenance?

LMFAO….yeah, because that’s exactly the same thing as building an oceanfront city 30’ below sea level. 😂😂

Mother Nature doing what she’s done since the dawn of time is not the same thing as engineering failures or human shortsightedness. If you really must stretch to draw an equivalence between building a seaside city 30 feet below the sea level and something else then that something else ain’t a natural occurring event like earthquakes. It would be more accurate to compare building a city below sea level to building a city on top of a volcano. Each time the volcano burps the rest of the country shoulders the costs of rebuilding the city on top of the volcano. 😉

With that said, I do hope everyone in harms way is able to ride this out with minimal damage and no injuries. NOLA is an interesting city with a rich history and a lot of people in harms way. I don’t believe that “moving” NOLA or relocating the city is in any way viable so at this point we put our faith in the engineers, hydrologists and the Good Lord each time a storm threatens her. I’m likely in the minority when I say that rebuilding NOLA (again) is our collective “responsibility” as a nation whether we like it or not, just like it is for earthquakes in California or tornadoes in Kansas.

For everyone in the potential path of the storm…..STAY SAFE and get out while you can. 👍

No worries , when the pumps seize up Toot will show up with a bucket and bail like hell..... can't keep a coonass Jew down!!!!!

You are mistaken to assume that drinking water is causing the shrinking because it is not. The very pumps that will be pumping the city dry tomorrow are part of the problem as are the canals that are dug to drain low lying areas. The same thing happened in the Netherlands when they built massive dykes to keep the people safe and dry because after they did they actually worked the land dried out and contracted and is still contracting today. So as the land dries it contracts even if no one drinks

Not really. The system is antiquated and difficult to maintain. The main problem is the power supply. See This

The lowest point in NO is 8', not 30', below sea level. But other than that, I think you're correct.

The gent in charge of drainage was on tv a little while ago. He claims that the pumps are tested and ready.

The wildcard as always is how much rain falls in what period of time.

Biden needs to put on his cape and head down to the LA coast to direct the hurricane away from New Orleans. Didn’t the media portray him with these kind of powers in the run up to the election?

Are we talking those little gas station packs or the 1lb packs?

SO that means they have done nothing in 16 years.

Heh !
Quite possibly.

They’ll know by noon tomorrow or thereabouts.

If one believes the rumors of how things work in NOLA, that means multiple people are on the payroll to test and maintain the pumps and the maintenance funds are gone at the end of every year. Whether any testing and maintenance was actually done, well that's a different question.

For their sake I hope everything runs ok. If it doesn't it will be blamed on Trump.

Oldman03, Thanks for the clarification. I thought I had read somewhere during Katrina that NOLA was 20’ or 30’ BSL but I am obviously mistaken since I’ll believe a “local” over my memory. 😁

Did his pump calculations include the influx of MD2020 bottles, beer cans, crack pipes and used rubbers?

Trash at the pumps’ suction barriers has always been a problem.