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New Orleans shouldn't exist because it's a fundamentally unsuitable place to build a big city. These billion dollar bandaid fixes will buy a few decades, maybe even 100 years for the city…. who knows. But it's still just throwing good money after bad and kicking the can down the road to the next generation. New Orleans will flood again someday and anyone who buys a home there is taking a huge risk.
4:31 huh, you don't say?
Let’s build in a below sea level flood plain! What could possibly go wrong?…tiny brained idiots got exactly what they deserved.
I remember my first visit to New Orleans and walking up at least 50 steps to look at the river. At the top I just looked at the river back down at the town and just didn’t see how any of it made any sense.
The US government is so wrong for what they did to our people on that day. 🖕the US government
The government blowed down the levee walls. People even heard the explosions going off.
Bllions upon billions of dollars being spent on a doomed city. How freaking stupid. The whole area should be declared unfit for habitation and abandoned before the next Katrina comes along and kills more people. The cycle will continue, mother nature is not a force to be ignored.
07/24/2022- One of my sons went with the Indiana Army National Guard, to help with the relief efforts. He was down there for 2 weeks. He came back and said that he would never forget the odors and the sights, down there. Prayers for anyone who has to give relief anywhere in the world!
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The New Orleans levee was coast guard approved while the south lafourche levees was not approved. The lafourche levees held. The Mathues levee also failed. In south Louisiana we had known since the 1970s that New Orleans and Plaquemine parrish was not safe in storm conditions. They always tried to save New Orleans while ignoring South Louisiana. I had seen this in the 1973 Mississippi flood.
Maybe all of New Orleans should be confined to the French quarter and let the rest of the city return to swamp?
They intentionally blew those flood walls and levees up using dynamite to purposely flood the black community.
Completely unrelated, but I have not seen a single navy ad or air force ad with a single male in it anyone else seeing this. I mean months on months of just straight lgbt propaganda with not a single man in sight
New Orleans sits on hundreds of feet of silt which is extremely soft. The city has subsided (sunk) two feet since it was measured in 1970. Also the city itself is below sea level. The location of New Orleans with the exception of the old French Quarter, has always been untenable from an engineering point of view. Engineering band-aids will only make the problem worse. All the money in the world ( 42:22 ) cannot remove the triple threat of Lake Pontchartrain, the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
Katrina was the worst hurricane the entire city of New Orleans was destroyed in the surge and it took days to rebuild after the storm.
♫♪ when the levee breaks, mama you got to move ♪♫
Here's a idea pay everyone to move out. Turn it into a national park of what not to do when building a city.
they shouldn't be playing commercials!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U know u gotta wonder y the electrical equipment was below the water table,,especially in New Orleans….
ONCE AGAIN. THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST DOESN'T GET NOTICED. GTH MODERN MARVELS
God flushed his toilet
Just for the record Hurricane Katrina did not even hit New Orleans the problem was with the billions of dollars of infrastructure money that was funneled off to elicit projects by the government and if another storm were to come there today of the exact same thing would happen because the same people are still in charge
The government blowed the levee walls down. People even said they heard the explosions going off.
Humanity get it through your heads, Mother Nature is undefeated, no matter what spin doctors tell you!!!🙏😢
It really sounds like the city has been riding on it's loreals, milking the money and investing NOTHING into the future issues they KNOW they'd see. Weak levies, old pumps, etc.
Basically the way I see it the French shouldn't have even tried building there. Let alone the US. I mean come on what did you think was going happen? The hurricane danger was known the soil problems were known it was known to clearly be below sea level not far from the coast.
I was 15 & 127 miles away from NOLA during hurricane Katrina it was so sad to watch on tv I actually thought the water would come our way . we did have alot of people from NOLA in our area days after the storm Lafayette area
Yea, God knew what he was doing, replacing land sunken with flooding. It is humans who refuse to respect Gods work and are too greedy for what they want not necessarily what they should have
that was their 1st mistake was building a city on swamp land that's 20-30 feet below sea level. smh. matthew 7:26 don't be like the foolish man who built his house upon the sand
I'm pretty sure that the home boy on the thumbnail hangs out on the offramp in downtown Milwaukee with a "Gimmie free money, I'm to lazy to work for my crack" sign.
Finally near the very end, somebody says it: maybe it was um yeah, a bit dumb to build the city there in the first place. It's 100 times more insane to rebuild it now! This is like taking a 1972 Ford pinto and moving heaven and Earth to keep it working 40 years after the model was universally denounced as a dud. I really can't believe that they're talking about these insanely huge costly measures for NOLA — those miles of debris should be left as they are for the next thousand storms to play with.
"incidents of looting" — you have a gift for understatement :-s
We have known for two decades about the southern states sinking, yet they keep building back.
My tax dollars to help rebuild areas that should have NEVER been built on in the first place. Pay for your own stupidity. I do not feel sorry one bit.
When you’re told to evacuate, LEAVE! Don’t wait for the government to come save you.