New Orleans levees sinking faster than planned

[@booksteer7057]

I moved away from New Orleans four months after Katrina, in part because I didn't trust the Army Corp of engineers to get anything right. Sounds like I was right.

[@lamarsmith5971]

My uncle works the corp of engineers down there...he said, New Orleans will be under water by 2100, regardless of what the government or politicians tell you.

[@darensmith5270]

Forget the US Army Corps of Engineers! Hire Dutch engineers! They have been keeping the North Sea away from the city of Amsterdam for many, many ,many years!

[@any12u]

Even the best engineer can't hold back the rise in sea level.

[@fredverkerk838]

@@any12u the dutch 800 years

[@kelvinw.1384]

The city is built on a swamp. The netherlands is not. This country not going to continually pay for and bail out idiots who built on land that is continually sinking.

[@shawnpitman876]

You are insisting on living on land humans are not meant to live on, you will not win this battle and need to just face that fact and give up on the area.

[@MrJimheeren]

Tell that to the Dutch. We live 6 meters under sea level. It does cost a lot of money though

[@snowangel1066]

@@MrJimheeren the Dutch aren’t at risk of category 5 Hurricanes…

[@MrJimheeren]

@@jasonsmith-qm3vx the Netherlands used to be nothing but swamps. We drained it all. But yeah we don’t have hurricanes

[@shawnpitman876]

@@jasonsmith-qm3vx more than 50% of the nation would be underwater without the engineering in the Netherlands. But please do keep showcasing your IQ of 2 and how little you know of the world.

[@wade5941]

New Orleans was underwater in 1735, again in 1785, and levees (albeit not the structures of today) were in place at the time. Floods in 1862, 1866, and 1867 with levee failures at the time. No one, including the Corps of Engineers, is going to stop the Mississippi from doing what nature dictates that it do. It is just a matter of time before the great carves a new path. Given the information we have and the scale of the levees today relative to the past, additional monies put into levees along the lower Mississippi seems irresponsible and short sighted. Maybe if I lived there I would feel different, but I don't think so. The facts in this case are clear.

[@elkochav]

God plaques

[@melodyhart2017]

You can not save New Orleans if you do not allow the parishes below New Orleans to flood ,10 years ago a study was done from geologist! The silt that flows past all the levies is settling on the continental shelf,it it is bending under the weight and is causing all of the top soil to slide into the gulf,there is not enough dirt to build the levies you need .The only way is to let plaquimine and other parishes to be flooded every flood season.

[@dinosaurus598]

Sadly these coastal "Master" plan people are dumb.

[@dinosaurus598]

Trying to make diversions will lead to massive amounts of land loss. 15-20 years ago areas of Plaquemine would be forest , now dead Wetlands

[@Shazzyhtown]

This a lovely city with a vibrant culture. However, it’s time to accept the truth:NOLA is not livable anymore. You will continue to sink. Move elsewhere.

[@asafaust8869]

Get out of her my people.

[@shawnpitman876]

@jojofromtx They have a completely different attitude towards EVERYTHING compared to Americans, that's why. You people refuse to spend money on things unless they have an IMMEDIATE benefit, so you only respond to flood disasters, the netherlands is always planning for the next flood disaster and spending money on preventing it, something that you Americans would riot about claiming it was unnecessary spending.

[@andyrendon7753]

Shawn Pitman well it’s not easy when your country is the size of Europe. Your country would barely be our 42nd largest state. Its easy to say we can change, but when we have 35x the people your country has, sorry to say but people don’t change easily.

[@andyrendon7753]

Mara L lol I love holland but this guy is like every European that loves to talk about the US but can’t keep its nose or mouth away from mentioning the US. Our country is the size of Europe and population 50% of Europe of course we’re going to have problems yet we won’t collapse

[@shawnpitman876]

@@andyrendon7753 Typical American, thinks that anyone who's educated about a place must be from there. Nah you moron, some of us just don't have our heads shoved up our rear end, and actually have educations and IQs north of 50.

[@roberthawkins4364]

It does not matter what they build or how big it is nothing can stop the force of water fire or wind nothing...you build a city with water on all corners of it below sea level means its going to flood..no were there is safe during storm season

[@Shazzyhtown]

Sounds like a city should not have been built there.....

[@MrJimheeren]

Weird we in the Netherlands are doing just fine

[@geraldspud36]

The us government blowed the levee Walls down.

[@raymondjones5909]

Mother nature gets more and more powerful as the years pass you can't beat mother nature.

[@NancyRutland]

‘I live 12 blocks from a levee. This freaks me OUT.

[@Dredster747]

Why do you choose to live in a bowl below sea level that's surrounded by water? That was your first mistake

[@kenteno822]

New Orleans is not going t o last ! It's below sea level and the Mississippi River. 😳

[@dinosaurus598]

Biggest reason - Southeast lost like 80% of Wetlands in Louisiana.

[@MrErnest18045]

RIP LA

[@ans1283]

Well its almost 2023 now so y’all better figure it out

[@rahmreekoo86]

"I'm not an engineer, but I just can't see water pushing those sheet piles away." 😳 ....Katrina dude. What the hell is wrong with this guy's imagination??

[@any12u]

He's another one of those "blind them with bullshit" guys.

[@shawnpitman876]

Probably just needs people to stay in the area so he doesn't go out of business. People almost always have ulterior motives.

[@gatesxtreme8]

Wonder where they're getting the materials from? Example the clay? Is it from Louisiana or somewhere else? Idk if I'd want more moistened clay earth.

[@xlncy]

Why people live in those places

[@NancyRutland]

It’s like people who live in California live with the risk of earthquakes; or people in Hawaii live there even tho volcanoes sometimes pour over homes. The same reason people living in “tornado alley” don’t all move somewhere else. When Katrina hit I was living in South Mississippi, 90 miles from the Gulf, a place I thought could never be a devastation area. I was wrong. Disasters can happen wherever one lives-just different kinds. And NOLA is “home” for thousands of people. Our city is over 300 years old. Imagine how many generations of the same families still live here. Most often that is why people stay-or choose to stay & live at the foot of the volcano that took Pompeii out. I guess we “never think it’s gona happen to us” no matter WHERE we live-& we’ll always be wrong. Disaster can strike anywhere.

[@lxnny2357]

You have to live somewhere I guess.

[@Dredster747]

@@NancyRutland yes, but you must be a special kind of stupid to choose a bowl below sea level that's surrounded by water.

[@Kam87900]

This is unfortunate but don’t move to Atlanta ✌🏽

[@wade5941]

North Dakota has room.

[@MajinMist603]

so much for being the UNITED states................

[@RégentDeMarquis005]

@@MajinMist603 facts lol

[@calba24]

Don’t come next door to Texas! We never knew so many ratchet people existed in the world until Katrina hit. It just takes some people who don’t give a damn to make the whole city look bad. I understand homes were destroyed by the hurricane, but some came to destroy our homes with all the ruckus they brought and blamed it on FEMA not paying. Hurricane Ida is on her way, and most of us are wishing they close down the highways leading to Texas. They can do Arkansas and Mississippi a favor, and pay them a visit.

[@tweetfame7724]

@@calba24 stop bitchin tightening up 🦃

[@baracktrump1410]

45 Billion would go a long ways towards moving citizens to higher ground out of the toilet bowl.

[@Romany1111]

Corps is responsible for more damage nationwide than they protect. Worthless organization, widely assumed (mainly by inland dwellers) to be heroes. They have a great marketing department.

[@Tr1Hard777]

Just move. Don't trust these clowns.

[@matjebonklumen147]

Checking as Ida 2hrs away before landfall! Settlement issues, men, this gonna hit engineer corp in the face!

[@PershingOfficial]

Well most of them worked so guess your wrong

[@matjebonklumen147]

@@PershingOfficial good for them,

[@parisp721]

Just make huge water pipelines to desertic states like California, and Nevada. Is possible we have the keystone pipeline 1850miles long and Cochin Pipeline 1900 long. Cochin's capacity is 95,000 barrels per day which is around 3,990,000 gallons a day. Spend the money on that instead. Google is I'm not lying, share it! Print it and post it on the keystone pipeline coated 5.2 billions to build, just do the math.

[@desmondburnett9286]

Take $45 billion, replant the marshes and make curvy man made rivers. Sorry people, relocate.

[@dinosaurus598]

People trying to make manmade deltas has lead to more land loss in Plaquemine Parish.

[@raziel7148]

just bring in the Dutch

[@dinosaurus598]

Destroy Levees south of new Orleans ( Plaquemine Parish) and relocate.

[@johnprendergast1338]

Yeah ,they are sinking to the point where it won't take much of a hurricane ...🐬

[@davidcross701]

NOPE... The STATE and NEW Orleans pic up the bill. We Tax payers out side the state spent more than enough.

[@carleensmith5864]

The city will loose! Get out of town.

[@streetcar6080]

The levee held with Ida but New Orlean will always get flooded. The whole area is at least a foot under current sea level. They would need to invest a lot more in pumps to get everyone to stay dry. I don't even think you can do that. Some area are just too low...should really be natural wetland

[@dinosaurus598]

Metairie is 3 feet above sea level it's barely above sea level.. And apart of new Orleans * is Orleans above sea level barely since half of it is below

[@wescald]

Why don’t they just make them like wayyy to big to where it’s impossible to break them. Seems expensive but obvious

[@Adam-rr4ro]

More adds than cable, I don't need that garbage

[@terronparker2929]

And them ppl bout to witness Katrina all over again in 2021

[@NAWFMATIC]

Nah , send more money to Ukraine 😂

[@ac-ir9gs]

good luck nola

[@patriciaalexander9751]

Good reason to move!!

[@madameblackimusprime]

Oh

[@garrettmarlowe6733]

Why she so fine tho

[@Kevin-ck6bu]

I was thinking the same thing. That yellow dress is looking good on her

[@Manigo1743]

Just shows that you are bad at planning.

[@any12u]

2021... In comes hurricane Ida. Will the levees hold given climate change? You'll never hold the ocean back. When will you learn??? Be wise, relocate.

[@eternalnjem]

Texas here I come