Why New Orleans' Geography SUCKS
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Published 2021-09-14
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All Comments (21)
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Fun fact: The European settlers were surprised that the natives hadn’t built any settlements in the modern day New Orleans area. It was flat and solid and between 2 important bodies of water. When asked, the natives told them that it floods all the time and advised that the Europeans should not build a settlement there. They did not listen obviously.
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POV:The year is 2050. New Orleans tourism is now booming as thousands of divers make their way to Louisiana, hoping for a tour of the underwater ruins.
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I am a Katrina survivor. I lost everything at 16yrs old. The stress of rebuilding killed my father and my mother was not able to rebuild her life she had pre-Katrina. We still have not recovered 17yrs later!!!; So many crooked politicians ensuring a large amount of the population couldn't afford to rebuild and fraudulent programs just wore us out. I now live in Baton Rouge but my family still resides in the city. Be vigilant and don't count on the government entities to have your best interest at heart.
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When the French founded La Nouvelle Orléans, it was a perfect spot, both strategically and commercially. The position at the delta of the Mississippi opened a great route to explore inland Louisiana. When Venice was founded, it was at the perfect spot because the swamps offered natural protection from ravaging Visigoths and Lombards. Today, for both cities the submerging swampy ground is a big problem.
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We could easy solve the flooding problem by telling to Nestle that there’s water there
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Patrick Star: “What if we push the city?”
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So Nola is the embodiment of “I’m here for a good time, not a long time”
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I knew the Mississippi was important, but I didn't realize it connected so much of the country together. Really fascinating video, thanks for sharing this information with us.
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The French Quarter of New Orleans is one of the coolest places in America. You can literally walk block after block past the original 1700s buildings still standing.
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The storm surge from Ida was so insane that the mississippi actually flowed backwards for a few hours
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The city itself is decaying. I visited for the first time in years this year in 2022. I was plainly shocked at the state of the place. It breaks my heart. My dad is from Gentilly, I grew up visiting practically every year as a kid. It's a special city to me, and seeing it as it is, is truly tragic
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"When the Levees Broke", a great documentary about Katrina and New Orleans. Very sad but worth a watch. Thank you for creating this documentary. You can learn something new everyday. I had no idea that New Orleans' geography was essentially a bowl.
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When the French were scouting out the land in Louisiana, an engineer very plainly said it was a very bad place to build a port...but was overruled by the nobleman making the decision. Once again, management ran roughshod over technical expertise.
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I knew a guy who worked on levees in Nola, he raised some concerns over safety issues with the levees, and was promptly told to shut up. The construction and maintenance of the levees is so unbelievably corrupt. He said he was literally taken out of the room and told “how things work around here”.
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I grew up in New Orleans, and I felt a bit guilty at the relief I felt that my family moved out the city before Katrina hit. We lived uptown, in a part that would not have been horribly affected, but it still would have had problems. I did have my share of flooding before we left. I remember one May, in the 1990s, when it flooded for pretty much the whole month and they closed the schools down.
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I love New Orleans so much, it's such an incredibly beautiful city and unique with its rich culture and design. It's an absolute tragedy that it might not be around for much longer.
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New Orleans: sinks Venice: yes i’m gonna have a new friend ! Jakarta: can i join your friend group ?
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New Orleans is essentially the real life embodiment of building a sandcastle at low tide and then trying desperately to build more and more walls that keep collapsing as the tide goes up. Eventually you abandon it altogether as it's completely destroyed.
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God this is so depressing. I'm moving to New Orleans for graduate school in July. A big part of that decision, other than liking the school, was wanting the opportunity to immerse myself in the city and its culture before its gone, or hollowed out even worse than it already has been. I've visited on multiple occasions and there was never enough time. I absolutely adore that city.
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Really good video, also around 7:50 he explains the sprawl in the 70s. My parents told me growing up it was common to see bulldozers knocking trees and bushes over and being paved over to make neighborhoods. All those trees rot over decades and cause the ground to sink even more as well.
