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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dane on August 29, 2012, 07:23:42 AM
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the focus had to shift to someplace else.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021214261
malaise (96,459 posts)
Will the Levees hold?
We watched Spike Lee's documentary again last night - stay safe NOLA DUers
On a side note, in the meta forum that the unwashed masses are not allowed to read, another DUmmy wants to buy a star for MyLays because "...she made it through Isaac..." Jamaica had a shower or two last week as the system passed the island, and "...she made it through..."
More recently, DUatman provides an update in a new threadhttp://www.democraticunderground.com/10021223380
Atman (24,490 posts)
People back on rooftops, stuck in attics in NO
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Rescue ops underway in Plaquemines Parish. According to CNN this morning...live, no link.
Various news sources tell us about flooding and power outages.
One might imagine that the idea of building anything in an area that is essentially below sea level surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico, a big river, and a big lake would cause a prudent person to have second thoughts, but a DUmmy in DUatman's thread thinks it should be regulated by the "powers that be". Is this another "the government will tell me if it's a good/bad idea"?SoCalDem (97,930 posts)
5. Sometime soon, the powers that be, should take a long hard look at which areas are not suitable for
building homes.. It sucks, but Louisiana has just lost too much marshland to protect areas that used to be protectable
Edited to add this update from MyLayshttp://www.democraticunderground.com/10021223540
malaise (96,460 posts)
The good news and the bad news re Isaac
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The good news
#1 - rain - here endeth the drought - Ole man river should be laughing
#2 - jobs
#3 - ReTHUG dislocation
#4 Anti-government ReTHUGs begging for Federal money
The bad news
#1 serious flooding in Plaquemines Parish and expected in other parts of NOLA
#2 36 hours of rain anticipated in NOLA
#3 time it takes to rescue people given the non-stop rain
#4 over 400,000 folks without power so far
Let's go FEMA!!!
Good to see in her item 3 of the 'good news' that typical DUmmies can still get pleasure from the misfortune of others.
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Just saw a gaggle of FEMA trucks heading south on I-35. Who is running the camps if they are going to NO?
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Just saw a gaggle of FEMA trucks heading south on I-35. Who is running the camps if they are going to NO?
Someone didn't respond to his 'deployment order' . . . :whistling: :tongue: O-)
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Considering how much warning people had to evacuate, I have limited sympathy for those who chose to stay.
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Lets see how this plays out. Last time we had a democrat governor wanting to make a republican president look bad. This time we have a democrat president wanting to make a republican governor look bad.... :whatever:
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The DUmmies want to see total death and destruction so bad they can't hardly stand it. :mental: :censored:
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The return of the tin foil hat brigade. Of course in 2005 it wash Bush and Rove that blew the levees now it was the 1% :rotf:
valerief (31,818 posts)
9. Let's hope the 1%ers don't blow them up again. nt
malaise (96,467 posts)
10. Good point
My worry is the forecast of 17 inches of rain - this is a slow moving storm.
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Considering how much warning people had to evacuate, I have limited sympathy for those who chose to stay.
+1
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malaise (96,459 posts)
Will the Levees hold?
Nope.
Hurricane Isaac pushed water over a rural Louisiana levee, knocking out power to more than 500,000 customers across the state as it began a drenching slog inland from the Gulf of Mexico with New Orleans in its path.
Wind gusts and sheets of rain pelted the barren streets of New Orleans, where people watched the incoming Isaac from behind levees that were strengthened after the much stronger Hurricane Katrina hit seven years ago to the day. Power has been knocked out to 512,647 customers across southern Louisiana, about 157,000 of them in New Orleans, utility Entergy told FoxNews.com.
Water driven by the large, powerful storm flooded over an 18-mile stretch of one levee in Plaquemines Parish south of New Orleans, flooding some homes in a thinly-populated area. The levee, one of many across the low-lying coastal zone, is not part of New Orleans' defenses.
http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2012/08/29/isaac-thrashes-new-orleans-overtops-levee/
So since it happened again....and this time it happened on a Dem President's watch...can we ask the same questions about why they weren't prepared that the DUmmies did in 2005?
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Just remember it isn't 0bama's fault until something goes right. So far only killing Osama has been 0bama's fault in his reign of incompetence.
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No and no and Hell no. It's not a real storm until the Bald headed Dwarf Gnads post a storm waring about it all the way back there in safety in CALIFORNIA.
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"Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was........GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!"
TV News was talking to the head of the ARMY corps of engineers. There has been over a billion dollars spent on levees and new pump stations in New Orleans and they aren't finished yet. Is New Orleans really worth all that?
....and most of the reason the levees broke last time was that they had been giving money for them to the local government agencies....and they bought statues of MLK and other unrelated junk with the money.