AP: Feds Confirm Fears of New Orleans Flooding

[Eugene]

Feds Confirm Fears of New Orleans Flooding

By CAIN BURDEAU
The Associated Press
Thursday, July 27, 2006; 6:45 PM

NEW ORLEANS -- New data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirms fears
that rain from hurricanes and tropical storms could flood some neighborhoods
with up to 5 feet of water when new floodgates are closed at the mouths
of three major drainage canals.

The floodgates are designed to prevent storm surges from Lake Pontchartrain
from backing up into the canals, preventing the surge flooding that inundated
most of the city during Hurricane Katrina. But the floodgates also would prevent
rainfall from draining through canals into the lake.

The data released Wednesday shows 9 inches of rain in six hours _ which happened
during Katrina _ could leave some neighborhoods under 1 to 5 feet of water.
That's less than the storm surge that topped houses last August, but it could
still flood some homes and endanger the city's recovery, said U.S. Sen. David
Vitter, R-La., who requested the data.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/27/AR2006072701511.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. K and R n/t

[ixion]

2. uh, no one thought of that in the design phase?

:shrug:

Seems pretty obvious to me.

[mom cat]

5. I bet you still believe in things like logic, science and reality!

[ixion]

7. ah, yes... you're right... for this I need to use 'faith-based' physics

how silly of me. :+

[mom cat]

10. All you have to do to get raptured is to stop believing in gravity.

[lovuian]

3. So in other words the Sea reclaims New Orleans

and its foolish to build there!!!

[Bridget Burke]

6. The Sea never owned New Orleans....

Neither did the Gulf of Mexico.

Let's not build on places that (1) get too hot, (2) get too cold, (3) are on fault lines, (4) are near dormant volcanoes, (5) are near rivers that flood, (6) are in Tornado Alley, or (7) are too close to the Sea. (Or the Gulf. Or an Ocean.)

[AngryAmish]

8. Well said!

[uppityperson]

9. don't forget On hills or Near any burnable vegetation(did you notice pic?)

National Guard July 8, 2006 Nice to see houses getting mucked out, and in less than a year even.

[cap]

13. except for one thing...

NOLA is at the mouth of the Mississippi and the big port that connects the Midwest to the world. There is gonna be a city there... location... location... location...

We just gotta make it work.

[pitohui]

12. new orleans is on the river and lake ponchartrain

it is not on the sea

next question or can you wait until you get to third grade to read the geography text there?

[Megahurtz]

4. Well if they would stop pouring billions of dollars

into every other country in the fucking world and invest money at home
and fix the obvious problems here, there would be no fear of flooding!:think:

Buuuuuut........they just don't care!

[pitohui]

11. 9 inches happens more often than katrina!

in additional to hurricane season (may 31-november 30) which may bring storms that can drop a lot of rainfall

there is another kind of storm, the spring rains, such as may 3 in the 1970s and may 10, 1995 -- i remember may 10 v. well since it dropped 22 inches of rain on my neighborhood on the northshore and as far as i know it dropped the same amount of rain throughout the area, including new orleans, since there were many flooded houses in that storm -- and you never even heard of it if you don't live here, true hurricanes get all the glory

people need to be damn choosy now if they move back to orleans or jefferson -- damn choosy and maybe consider elevating if they decide to rebuild at all

the army corps of engineers and fema are apparently in a contest to see which is more piss-pitiful when it comes to helping people stay safe and dry