How Long Does New Orleans Have Left?

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New Orleans is known for its susceptibility to flooding, but latest studies shows that it’s only going to get worse.
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@TheGreatLordApples 2 года назад

I noticed that when on the map you show the initial settlement you show the outline of a walled city. The diagram that was sent to the French crown showed new Orleans as a walled city, but the walls were actually never built. It was a lie to curry favor with the french nobility to that they'd invest in the settlement.

@TMW_Photography 2 года назад

That I didn't know! That's rather interesting.

@pierrenavaille4748 Год назад

Rampart Street is where one of the walls would have been.

@elizabethclaiborne6461 Месяц назад

So what? What does that have to do with the utter lack of half the story of where things are today? Look at flooding in Houston which is orders of magnitude worse and has been constant for a century? This isn’t just poorly done, it’s bullshit.

@e.paradigm7415 2 года назад

I've visited New Orleans a few times, loved it there, hate to see flooding. There's a certain charm to Louisiana.

@TMW_Photography 2 года назад

Couldn't agree more, it's an incredible city, filled with charm and character.

@e.paradigm7415 2 года назад

@@TMW_Photography yes! I will be back to NOLA one of these days, I promise. 😎

@Bobby007D Год назад

@@TMW_Photography let's not forget , out of control corruption , racism , crime and apathy.

@tiagomori2534 2 года назад

New Orleans is literally building on a swamp, the engineering that the use to build this city back a 3 hundred years ago is crazy

@Meemeeseecoo 2 года назад

A lot of the country is built on swamp land, same with DC.

@voteZDLR 2 года назад

Washington, D.C. was also built on a swamp.

@chazl9531 2 года назад

@@Meemeeseecoo Same with Chicago

@la7era1u54 2 года назад

Most of the pumps they still use to pump out the water were built when electricity was a fairly new technology. I live just outside of New Orleans, about a 15 min drive, and most of those pumps are usually not working. The large majority of them are nearly 100 years old. Last year a regular round of rain storms, which happens often in this part of the country, flooded parts of the city within hours, causing a few feet of floodwater in places because all but a few of those pumps were in disrepair. Also it's the people several miles up river and then south toward the gulf that have to deal with the consequences of New Orleans being built in a bowl more often than the people living in NOLA. When the river gets high they open the spillways to protect NOLA and this causes the water they released to flood several communities south of the spillways. These poor people have to deal with this much more often than NOLA floods. I'm lucky not to live in that area below the spillway, but thousands of families do

@voteZDLR 2 года назад

@@la7era1u54 Yeah I feel terrible for people outside of the levee system. Every time a big one comes along that knocks out power for weeks like Zeta, and in this case Ida, a percentage of the population have literally had it and they start planning to move as soon as it becomes financially feasible for them to do so. Sadly, a lot of them never really get to that point, where it becomes a financial possibility for them to leave. It does disproportionately effect people outside of the levee system, with some of them who still don't have power yet. And of course then there's others who don't even have roofs on their houses anymore to have electricity in even when it does come back on. Very challenging place to live in the worst of times.

@coahomajno6888 2 года назад

It’s very eerie watching this today

@Calilou52 2 года назад

Not really if you saw Katrina when it happened. Essentially all of NOLA was underwater at one point. Not downplaying Ira at all, its definitely been devastating but its a blessing compared to Katrina

@Jake-rs9nq 2 года назад

@@Calilou52 Ida would've flooded the city if the new levees failed. With the current rate of erosion, sea level rise, and strengthening storms, it's an inevitability.

@scorpixel1866 2 года назад

@Shoenheim *Chest-high water on his house's second floor* "This inundation story is all fake news!"

@Calilou52 2 года назад

@Shoenheim because eeeeverythings a conspiracy right?

@dadestarmysteries255 2 года назад

@@Calilou52 Just because someone doesn't believe something's true doesn't automatically mean they think it's a conspiracy. Saying they do is a great way to discredit them. History overrides global warming or climate change as it's now called. Curious why the change, maybe because it changes and has gone through ups and downs for all history? I think it's a lot more about money. A lot of people have a lot of money to make from this by pushing it. That's not a conspiracy, that's just life.

@emanueljoel7971 2 года назад

To be honest there is no amount of upgrades and technology that can compete with nature. This will probably become the future Atlantis. The fact that half the city was built on former wetlands such as marshes and swamps is alarming and unsettling.

@GiraffeHendrikJan 2 года назад

*laughs in dutch*

@chiarosuburekeni9325 2 года назад

@@GiraffeHendrikJan do they have to deal with hurricanes?

@GiraffeHendrikJan 2 года назад

@@chiarosuburekeni9325 sometimes it's windy. But that is not what the comment is about, now is it?

@chiarosuburekeni9325 2 года назад

@@GiraffeHendrikJan because the waters around the Netherlands are relatively calm in comparison and they don't have to deal with massive category 3-5 hurricanes so your laughing in Dutch is stupid

@GiraffeHendrikJan 2 года назад

@@chiarosuburekeni9325 the first comment isn't about that. Read it again.

@ohigh6 2 года назад

How many are watching this after Ida?

@KB-ke3fi 2 года назад

Most. We have backups. We're not THAT backwoods. And we can cook anything in a swamp....unlike the cities.

@user-uo7fw5bo1o Месяц назад

Here! Her eye went over N.O.

@ricenoodlegaming 3 года назад

Patrick star: “what if we push the city?”

@tonyfournier3298 2 года назад

I live in New Orleans and this is sooooo disrespectful but so fucking funny!!! I’m literally cleaning up from hurricane ida right now and laughing at this! F you good sir lol

@nickhill8612 2 года назад

@@tonyfournier3298 Hoping you, your family and friends are safe.

@blcouch 2 года назад

Eventually, insurance companies will refuse to insure areas that have to be rebuilt over and over again.

@rachaelhowey4106 2 года назад

isn't that America?

@indiecraze5227 2 года назад

Its happening in CA as well, people keep rebuilding in areas that frequent burning so insurances are refusing to renew their policy, i mean why build in an area that burns down every other year doesnt make sense

@gooxh 2 года назад

Already happened here. Insurance isn't affordable in any form

@SmartChannel01 Год назад

Florida too

@KAlovesherkitties 2 года назад

Watching this while currently living in New Orleans: Eep.

@Meemeeseecoo 2 года назад

Same here. The amount of mis-information about the city from outsiders is wild. I’ve lived here almost 8 years and I’ve literally never had flooding issues. My parents in Ohio have had their house flood more often.

@supersentaipepsi3736 2 года назад

You guys got your power on yet?

@BeefHamMan 2 года назад

@@Meemeeseecoo sounds like your family really enjoys living on flood plains

@coreysayles2002 2 года назад

Doing the same

@ahmadpickett 2 года назад

Right after Ida

@pierrenavaille4748 2 года назад

When you re-capped the post-Katrina works, you left off the closure structures at the north ends of the 17th Street, Orleans Ave., and London Ave. canals. Those are intended to isolate the undermining failures from the storm surge.

@cantsay8894 2 года назад

The city is below sea level. It’s only a matter of time.

@khao4577 2 года назад

yeah then we can have a real Atlantis you lose some you win some

@tiko4621 2 года назад

The Netherlands has been doing it for the longest…

@khao4577 2 года назад

@@tiko4621 you mean the nether?

@4realjacob637 2 года назад

@@khao4577 Atlantis was a real city. They found an underwater city in the Mediterranean

@KB-ke3fi 2 года назад

Well so far it's been 400 years. Let us know when that matter of time is.

@AdviceDuck 2 года назад

Ida just came through and wrecked our shid

@downsouth822 2 года назад

& it wasn't even a direct hit on us!! Jus outer winds,if IDA would hav hit us dead on,would b nothing left!!

@LegalShield3000 3 года назад

No amount of technology can overcome the fact it is technically under water.

@elibullockpapa9012 2 года назад

the netherlands have done it for hundreds of years. About 1/3 of their land is below sea level - so it is possible! - just expensive :(

@Whyoakdbi 2 года назад

@@elibullockpapa9012 The Dutch are very smart and very organized. I think they have the best infrastructure in the world.

@kaloianmitrev6279 2 года назад

Tell that to us European... We got Venice and Netherlands for centuries reclaimed and out of the water... It's only 3rd world countries and corrupt declining USA tha have reclaim problems

@beldinalanti1850 2 года назад

@@kaloianmitrev6279 How many times have the Netherlands flooded over the the past 1200 years and yet they still continue to live there, how many victims during that period? Only foolish humans believe they are able to control nature. Dutch are humans just like those in New Orleans and Venice. And since we're talking about humans here, no point in dividing them up by nationality when they all believe they can dominate nature regardless.

@Menibor1 2 года назад

Tell that to Arthur curry

@datking9184 2 года назад

New Orleans Miami New York we all are sinking 🤷🏾‍♂️

@deandre2680 2 года назад

Same for Mexico city

@nickhill8612 2 года назад

And California is falling into the ocean.

@alex22153 2 года назад

@@nickhill8612 not really lol it’s actually really elevated it can’t fall in the ocean

@andrewnunnes 2 года назад

@@alex22153 yeah the edge of Cali is gonna be under water once the San Andreas Fault breaks apart

@alex22153 2 года назад

@@andrewnunnes it can’t tho💀it’s planted on the earths crust the big one can’t knock it into the ocean like San Andreas the movie

@Madskillsuniversity Год назад

Very nicely done! Now I get it. I've heard this below, and knew what they meant, but now I see the entire picture. Thanks for the details and well edited video. - Ron

@TMW_Photography Год назад

Thank you so much!

@ivryrayborn5970 Год назад

Honestly this is not just a new Orléans issue, but a view of what most coastal cities will look like with climate change and rising sea levels.

@JPerez-zm4kr 3 года назад

Great video. Super informative

@TMW_Photography 3 года назад

Thank you, I'm glad you found it informative

@NEWNATURE777 2 года назад

Great contents! You should have more subscribers 👍

@Victor-tl4dk Год назад

Everyone in New Orleans should have their own inflatable flood boat as part of their emergency kit.

@agentpr24 3 года назад

Great video, good narration and excellent research on the subject.

@TMW_Photography 3 года назад

Thank you!

@johngordonwyland 2 года назад

The Big Easy. Still cleaning up Hurricane Ida and Hurricane Nicholas has landed and spared Houston. On its way to Mobile, Alabama.

@Johnn_Vasquez 2 года назад

Houston got very lucky.

@candyjjames9040 2 года назад

@@Johnn_Vasquez we always lucky 🗣️🗣️🗣️ no major hurricane will ever come here

@Johnn_Vasquez 2 года назад

@@candyjjames9040 we weren’t lucky in 2017 😓

@KB-ke3fi 2 года назад

@@Johnn_Vasquez We weren't lucky with Isac's storm of 1900 and many others.

@haroldpurcell4656 2 года назад

@@candyjjames9040 what about harvey

@FlowerItzel18 2 года назад

I honestly hope I get to visit New Orleans in the near future. It would be a shame to not experience the culture.

@tikilanichols8023 Год назад

Come on down.. we'll be waitin fa ya while it lasts

@e92mattt Год назад

This city is amazing! Sad it is where it is, but what can ya do? Just don’t invest in any properties!

@bangzoom22 Год назад

I’ve heard it’s a dirty city

@javiermoretti1825 10 месяцев назад

@@bangzoom22 Very. I've been to NOLA at least a dozen times for conferences. It's very dirty with lots of broken sidewalks. Some might call that "charming," but I find it revolting.

@alexcostelloe4204 2 года назад

It’s just a part of life down here. Every few years there’s a “catastrophe.” Locals have been through it severaltimes before and know how to prepare well or when it’s time to leave. You come back because there’s no where else like New Orleans. If you’ve never been here you wouldn’t understand

@Meemeeseecoo 2 года назад

Very true, I’m back lol. My house is in great condition, got lucky.

@chiarosuburekeni9325 2 года назад

Eventually that entire area will be completely uninhabitable so enjoy it while it lasts It was such a dumb idea to keep expanding it beyond the original settlement. Thousands and thousands dead over the centuries for absolutely nothing

@adadadatt 2 года назад

Not all residents have the rosey eyed picture of this place like that.

@DavidVillaTorre 2 года назад

@@adadadatt honestly, I've been a couple of times and I don't like it at all

@KB-ke3fi 2 года назад

@@DavidVillaTorre I've been to Mexico City a couple of times and I don't like it at all.

@ChristChickAutistic 2 года назад

If you look at NOLA from above, it's a giant bowl. Back in the mid 90s, I had a bf whose brother in law worked for the Mandeville water department, and he said that the city was sinking at an AVERAGE rate of a centimeter per year. That was a rough guesstimate, he said. This is what happens when you build on a swamp ya'll. Remember, in the cemeteries down there you have to be buried above ground. Hell, Manhattan is built on essentially a big garbage heap.

@deluxeh0 2 года назад

Home prices in Nola have dropped after this video

@sagemulkey9890 3 года назад

Great video.

@TMW_Photography 3 года назад

Thank you

@forcedair92gt94 2 года назад

It doesn't help the area with all of the oil and salt bed drilling. Sink holes are also happening in the state. Key West and Miami are in the same sinking boat.

@Chai_biscuits77 2 года назад

Who is here after Hurricane Ida ? I am looking at a hole in the ceiling too hahaha

@Deeplycloseted435 2 года назад

The mouth of the Mississippi River has completely changed location at least 4 times in the last 10,000 years. Practically ALL of the land where so many people live, only exists because of this sediment deposition, spread out over hundreds of miles of coast line. Now, we have been FORCING the mouth to be where it is, for the foreseeable future. As such, most of the sediment from North America is depositing in a location too close to the continental shelf, running deep into the Gulf of Mexico. This is a disaster waiting to happen that is beyond comprehension where millions of people live. At some point, humanity will not be able to hold one of the world’s largest rivers from doing what it wants to. Everything I just said doesn’t even take into account sea level rise. What a mess.

@PoboyMusic Год назад

Yep the levees are both a blessing and a curse. Louisiana is losing lots of land because no new sediment can be deposited.

@smartmarketing173 Год назад

And we all just pretend like everything’s fine. Like, how is the Governor of Louisiana not on air every day pitching his plan to protect this city?

@h.b.3557 2 года назад

Guess we're about to find out

@r.a.6459 2 года назад

New Orleans is basically Bangladesh in America. Rising sea levels mean this city will not just flood, but will _stay_ flooded for eternity. It's underwater!!

@craigweaver8542 2 года назад

Allah abkar!! your own country please. I tried to tell these mirror loving assholes. Feeling is illegal in the united states now it's a terrorist action to have common sense, and care about your neighbor. We don't need terrorism, we need the war on drugs (our people). I'm scared we negate love for technology. I wish those two worked together, so those deaths would have been prevented. Don't use tech to control use it to love humanity.

@Calilou52 2 года назад

@@craigweaver8542 you need to go outside and make friends buddy

@Meemeeseecoo 2 года назад

This comment is pretty ignorant / mis-informed.

@craigweaver8542 2 года назад

@@Calilou52 I was on a base and went thru the hurricane, the social engineering and outlook towards each other didn't help. One must choose their friends wisely. I'm in Oregon now and went thru our election cycle and riots. Let me tell you, people don't view each other any better. National monuments destroyed, and covid response coupled with political unrest does no help for anyone who has not lived in the same town thier whole life.

@foxgeist3129 2 года назад

@@craigweaver8542 you are wrong. Feeling isn't illegal. It's the ruling power now. There is no logic, only feelings. Forced to get a vaccine that dosnt even protect you from catching and transmitting. Segregation in the schools based on color. Retreating our military before our citizens and leaving tools to start another war. There is no science. There is no logical thought. Only hypocrisy and vanity in this species now. All so worried about how to stop NATURAL events on this planet none of you have figured out that we must ESCAPE our planet, our prison. We were not made for it, we were created by it and are as expendable a the millions of species that go extinct around us all the time that we take no heed of. This planet will continue to heat up as it was doing before we began heavy industry. The climate WILL get more and more severe as it has proven to show over the course of a century that we can actually study irregardless of us. This species faces the great filter and it is not going to make it. Not in the time we have left now. A fitting fate for an evolutionary dead ended species that is capable of understanding the end is coming and chooses to focus on everything BUT actually saving itself.

@arfythefoxmovedchannels1926 3 года назад

I didn’t know New Orleans was flooding..... I don’t wanna lose my home due to its flooding... :(

@Sxwayz15 3 года назад

It’s flooding in 2100 idk what age you are, but if your old enough I’d move to any state by lane or a lake, not a whole golf or a ocean

@brycenurding8133 2 года назад

@@Sxwayz15 very wise advice.

@Sxwayz15 2 года назад

@@brycenurding8133 thank you.

@Hold_Fast_Clanmcleod Год назад

Bruh tf you mean you didn’t know it was flooding how do you live there and not know this

@theodoremonroe6440 2 года назад

Very informative

@TurtleFootMining 2 года назад

This aged well didn’t it?

@lil_zadeh6064 2 года назад

What happened?

@lordflako5324 2 года назад

Wdym?

@trae701 2 года назад

Interesting sense of humor RU-vid

@tylerspeier3161 2 года назад

Yeah I haven’t had power for a week thanks for putting this on my recommended RU-vid

@DylanMcMullen 2 года назад

Ikr? At least i got power back

@alexwood5425 2 года назад

The wind is a part of a storm surge, the major part is the low air pressure allowing the general area sea level to rise.

@MrHistory269 4 года назад

The Dutch *Amateurs* But good video 👍

@TMW_Photography 4 года назад

I like it

@inyobill 2 года назад

Not directly comparable environments.

@r.a.6459 2 года назад

You cannot compare New Orleans and Amsterdam. Different mindsets.

@lamarsmith5971 3 года назад

Read an article recently that said New Orleans would be underwater by 2050.

@denisewilliams9987 2 года назад

I’m watching this in New Orleans rn 🥶. I’m here for school tho I’m passing through….

@deandre2680 2 года назад

Yeah i would move as fast as I’m are finished with school and get enough money.

@KB-ke3fi 2 года назад

@@deandre2680 yeah it's all about the money...locusts are like that too. Just make sure you don't major in English.

@jaredlewis8689 2 года назад

Harvey was a 100 year storm for reference

@candyjjames9040 2 года назад

Harvey was houston storm 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽

@KB-ke3fi 2 года назад

@@candyjjames9040 We know that, Forrest.

@williamdennis3574 2 года назад

It might have longer time than the rest of the US, the way the US is going.

@Meemeeseecoo 2 года назад

For sure. I’d be far more concerned with the fires in CA. Plus New Orleans will literally never run outta water unlike many other US cities.

@jasonrock5220 2 года назад

Thank God for Texas

@dinosaurus598 2 года назад

NOLA has about 20-30 years left.

@gilbertcavazos6541 2 года назад

Too much infrastructure issues just to keep a city going wow

@Meemeeseecoo 2 года назад

That’s how important this city is to America. Their going to try and preserve it for as long as possible.

@Neppy1414 2 года назад

But it’s an extraordinary city🥰🥰🥰🥰

@RespawnJupiter Месяц назад

I don't live in New Orleans but I do live in Mississippi and my Grandma (and Grandpa, I think) is from here. When the dam broke after Hurricane Katrina, it affected Mississippi incredibly 🎉 too and tons of people were dead in both states. My mom was pregnant with me during the time and my Dad told me that he and my Uncle Robby had gone down to the Gulf Coast to help people evacuate and volunteer for Red Cross and they saw dead bodies floating in the water ☹️

@la7era1u54 2 года назад

I live just outside of New Orleans, about a 15 min drive, and most of those pumps are usually not working. The large majority of them are nearly 100 years old. Last year a regular round of rain storms, which happens often in this part of the country, flooded parts of the city within hours, causing a few feet of floodwater because all but a few of those pumps were in disrepair. Also it's the people several miles up river and then south toward the gulf that have to deal with the consequences of New Orleans being built in a bowl more often than the people living in NOLA. When the river gets high they open the spillways to protect NOLA and this causes the water they released to flood several communities south of the spillways. These poor people have to deal with this much more often than NOLA floods. I'm lucky not to live in that area below the spillway, but thousands of families do

@booksteer7057 3 года назад

The city is not just below sea level. More immediately, it is 15 ft. below Lake Pontchartrain, and it's 30 ft. below the Mississippi River. :-(

@pierrenavaille4748 2 года назад

Only a tiny bit of is 15 feet below the Lake and it's only 30 feet below the River at peak flood stage for a few weeks every so many years.

@booksteer7057 2 года назад

@@pierrenavaille4748 But peak flood stage is when the river is most likely to breach. The retaining wall on the river levee tops out at 23' above sea level. That's much taller than anyplace in the city. It's even 5.5' taller than the lake's retaining wall. (Damn, I'm more scared now than when I made the original post!)

@dwjoseph59 2 года назад

What's even more scary about new orleans, la & a lot of my home state of louisiana is that there is no bedrock/carse terrain underneath the city & a lot of the pelican state. The city & the majority of the state sit on top of mud, clay & dirt and is at or below sea level.

@tbori180 3 года назад

They’re bout to get hit again 😔 🙏🏾

@TMW_Photography 3 года назад

They are, here's to hoping for the best for them.

@johnedmonds674 3 года назад

Hey Media War, I want to ask you a question. Do you think new orleans will be hit in 2020? Because hurricane season is going crazy right now. I don’t think we can keep dodging the bullet

@TMW_Photography 3 года назад

@@johnedmonds674 Honestly, I'm not the best person to ask, but, odds are it'll get hit again, and probably quite soon. Also, sorry for the three week delay in reply, RU-vid Studio is a little funky with notifying me of comments.

@LouisianaCreole 3 года назад

New Orleans was completely untouched by hurricanes in 2020

@deaconrich6317 3 года назад

They had zeta, which was almost a cat 3 that hit NOLA, there was flooding and heavy winds but not as bad as Katrina since it was moving at 24 mph NE.

@spaniardprince 3 года назад

Subbed

@TMW_Photography 3 года назад

Thanks!

@MrCubFan415 2 года назад

Sounds like New Orleans could learn a lesson from the Netherlands

@norml.hugh-mann 2 года назад

Nola is one big puddle of sewage It will vanish if anyone there flushes their toilet

@kevinnapier8996 2 года назад

I wonder if one of these 100 year storms jut now hit? The flood defenses are said, thus far, to have done their job. However, they were still not high enough. Infrastructure investment is a must! The right National Initiatives must be taken into better considerations going forward. My Heart goes out to All those Folks who are experiencing loss of either Lives or Properties.

@markrobinson1135 2 года назад

We give so much money away to foreign governments..... If we kept that money and rebuilt America we wouldn't have these problems. I no longer believe Democrats and Republicans are pro-america Look at America today we're going right down the tubes thanks Congress

@jayrowell2468 2 года назад

No matter how much you put into "protections", mother nature will simply laugh and destroy it again. Man is not in control and never will be. Our arrogance is our downfall

@black_horse_lover2655 2 года назад

@@jayrowell2468 Exactly!!!!! You can’t keep building basically underwater, taunting God and nature. And not expect to reap the consequences of your dumb actions.

@brandywine1548 2 года назад

There you have it you warning move away from sea

@richardgalli7262 2 года назад

The narrator stated the Gulf water level has risen half a meter, that is a lot of water, where did it come from. The polar caps are intact. I can see the land sinking causing flooding.

@usawrestling8835 2 года назад

@Shoenheim nice hairline

@nickhill8612 2 года назад

@Shoenheim Haha haha that's funny

@nickhill8612 2 года назад

@@usawrestling8835 To funny

@georgek8182 2 года назад

'the polar caps are intact' lol

@stewartgames6697 2 года назад

1. Most continental glaciers - the kind that form on mountaintops - have already vanished or are nearly gone. That's a good amount of water that has already flowed into the ocean. Fresh water, too - it's why places like California are running out of drinkable water, and the Colorado river no longer has enough flow to reach the ocean. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_of_glaciers_since_1850 2. Water, like all things, expands when it gets hot. Sea expansion is responsible for most of the sea level rise caused by global warming. 3. Polar caps aren't intact - they are melting at an incredible rate. The Greenland Ice Sheet has had a major calving event nearly every year since 2000. On average these events involve the loss of an ice sheet as heavy as the island of Manhattan. Some of the more robust climate models (the ones that assume we increase greenhouse emissions over the next 30 years) predict Greenland could end up ice-free by the year 2050. If that happens sea levels rise 23 feet, and places like Florida and the country of Bangladesh will be beneath the ocean. So worst case scenario, in 30 years the planet loses most major coastal cities, and billions of climate refugees start fighting for a spot of land in Canada and Siberia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_sheet#Glacial_calving_2000%E2%80%932015

@bevleighlange3312 2 года назад

Nature rules Supreme- always- it's terribly stressful 😪 for people who live around coastal areas particularly - I feel so sad for the people of New Orleans with this devastating hurricane Ida. Once rebuilding is completed people never know when the next will decimate it all again 😭

@bevleighlange3312 2 года назад

@@ffjklj I'm so sorry 😞 😢 that so many residents are so stressed and understandably- what a horrendous situation ....... I prayed for New Orleans........ greetings from South Africa

@RandomLBS 2 года назад

I Love New Orleans. Great food, great people, great entertainment. Unfortunately i fear that in another 100 yrs New Orleans will no long exist, It will be New Atlantis. The clock was always ticking but now with rising sea levels and climate change and worst hurricanes, the outcome is inevitable.

@SuperKrisnelson800 2 года назад

I fear, not just New Orleans will no longer exist, but Armageddon will occur, and the world will end.

@SuperKrisnelson800 2 года назад

I wonder what New Jerusalem will be like, in the “new heaven, and new earth?”

@SpeedyCorky 2 года назад

so you blast us with elevated volume music at the end, while asking for a subscription !? great video, but man that outro was a no-no

@TMW_Photography 2 года назад

Yeah, I've since altered it. Looking back at this video, if I had made it now, I would have done quite a few things differently.

@faithsfabulousbeautybar6756 2 года назад

It's a bowl of sinking water. I pray for the people there. No technology can make new Orleans safe. Mother nature is mother nature. Can't stop hurricanes or the sinking of the town. Just a matter before it sinks to the gulf.

@jorgeher3233 2 года назад

No worries. Life goes on!

@Yora21 2 года назад

Though better somewhere else.

@Sam-vo1lf 2 года назад

Maybe they should explore green alternatives like floodplain restoration

@amibeingdetained3417 2 года назад

yeah we do that but it’s not as “green” as youd think. Think about the transport and installation of the materials like sand and trees. Gassy. Also think about the size of the areas needed to be covered. Many of us here realize we’re just gonna get shafted for good one day, so we decide to enjoy our time here while we have it.

@Sam-vo1lf 2 года назад

@@amibeingdetained3417 Oh I more so meant reconnecting disconnected floodplains to avoid flooding but the type you mentioned can be beneficial as well

@keefmeister77 Год назад

"...80% of New Orleans was up to 3 meters underwater...." Statements like that compromise this whole video (yes I was there after Katrina). Right now the city's biggest problem is the carjackers.

@AltairKennedy 2 года назад

Maybe 1 week if the pine barrier island trend gets saturated and washed out a levy again!

@ahmadpickett 2 года назад

I feel like that New Orleans should take some advice from the Dutch

@tedsmith6137 2 года назад

The adage of "rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic" comes to mind.

@jameswillard1 2 года назад

I’m working on a solution, hopefully I figure it out before it’s too late. In the meantime, don’t buy property for a long term hold 😳

@jusgie 2 года назад

Im a nola native smh.

@forcemajeur.5138 2 года назад

that and the levees which are largely responsible for the rest of south La disappearing. Although, New Orleans and Baton Rouge really wouldn't be able to have been developed this much had it not been for the levees. Quite the dilemma.

@roxannehudson7410 10 месяцев назад

Who cares about baton rouge we talking about how long does new Orleans have left not baton rouge

@roxannehudson7410 10 месяцев назад

Who cares about baton rouge we talking about how long does new Orleans have left not baton rouge

@forcemajeur.5138 10 месяцев назад

@@roxannehudson7410 It is the same issue the coast is eroding due to the river being constrained. You obviously don't know Louisiana history or what is going on geographically or economically, nor that the river is trying to shift into the basin (which without the levees, neither city would exist for purposes of cargo, not that much cargo can go north of the old BR bridge anyway due to Huey); I would suggest you do some research or read a book.

@niceguy2832 3 года назад

I guess we will all die in/with new Orleans, it's sad that people still say that climate change isn't a thing

@MrPanther67100 3 года назад

RadTheLad like the people who fly around in private jets like Al gore, who narrated a movie on climate change

@MrPanther67100 3 года назад

RadTheLad I agree

@Yo_rese_ 2 года назад

Ida going to kill us now

@jeffm2787 2 года назад

Climate change, what climate change, surely your mistaken. Ohh you mean the thing the Sun is causing... 🙄😆😐 Guess I better go read my translation of some ancient writing so I can find some parallels and blame it on that. See look, the 'book' says so right here. Ohh wait, self fulfilling prophecy you say. Why would we be so foolish as do do something like that. Don't expect anything to change, too many people want this 'change' to happen for greed, religion, politics, etc.etc. I just keep waiting for all of my neighbors to step up and do something and then maybe I'll join them 😆

@NwoFresh 2 года назад

Is not

@thehorrorartist9317 Год назад

its just somethnng we have here in louisiana jsut abit of parlor tricks

@rustyshakelford1279 2 года назад

So basically N.O. Is fucked. Got it.

@calengr1 2 года назад

02:03 "some parts sinking at 5 cm per annum...."

@linniem5982 6 месяцев назад

They keep working on solutions here. ❤😊😊

@scotsasnett 2 года назад

The city will be fine.

@jamesjoslin7586 2 года назад

Right.

@Meemeeseecoo 2 года назад

I’m not sure it’s gonna be fine but it’s gonna take a lot longer than people think. Other parts of the country will be desperate for water by then.

@pierrenavaille4748 2 года назад

It breaks my heart to say so, but I doubt it. The differential between the rising sea and the land grows every year. Another Katrina, or maybe two, but some day, another big flood will fill the City and there will be no appetite to save Her again.

@medicinaemdia4895 2 года назад

Let’s not forget that Louisiana has a Republican governor, meaning he can’t “understand” global warming

@brettp.563 2 года назад

He’s a liberal democrat but good try.

@stephenfletcher1579 2 года назад

Correction! La. has a democrat gov. , and NOLA has a democrat mayor. The gov. seems to be popular,as for the mayor, typical leftwing socialist like the rest.

@medicinaemdia4895 2 года назад

@@stephenfletcher1579 actually Louisiana has a Democratic Governor and a Republican lieutenant governor, and is still a very red state !!!

@stephenfletcher1579 2 года назад

@@medicinaemdia4895 Good for you,count your blessings 👍

@standingbear998 2 года назад

when you build on the coast below sea level, then it's on you. tough shit. the tax payers suffer like always.

@donaldgibbons2616 2 года назад

Never did exactly say when

@TMW_Photography 2 года назад

I presented the latest research, and the estimates contained within, but no, unfortunately I don't have a date and time for you.

@joshuagould548 Год назад

Screw rising sea levels. Imagine what New Orleans, let alone any city, would do without fossil fuels. FF have helped us build electrical grids, heat/cool our homes, the flood walls, build storm monitoring technology, and when a storm hits and we're without power, gas is like gold. That's something New Orleanians know the value of, oil and gas.

@WildWestPros 2 года назад

Wow! If anyone had taken this more serious before Ira & before 15B investment!

@ddeeddee1380 2 года назад

They been saying that since I was born

@JamesJones-cx5pk Год назад

Those 100 year old pumps don't instill confidence.

@KingSpaceySprockets 3 года назад

*enters the Jetsons

@nathaneverson9949 2 года назад

7 days left .......... of summer

@bee6384 Год назад

I'm a new orleans native so i say this with love it's time to let this place drown already...

@neilreinecke3243 Год назад

Every city or state seems to have some sort of environmental issues going on. If it is not worrying about the ocean flooding a coastal city it will be mega drought and fires like in the southwestern usa. You just got be prepared and value your family and pets over items and stuff.

@cognitivepawn 2 года назад

At the 13 second mark you show the Big Dam Bridge located in Little Rock, Arkansas. It has nothing to do with New Orleans.

@morpheus6394 2 года назад

Thank you for using metric

@jermaineb4602 2 года назад

Do one on baton rouge

@TMW_Photography 2 года назад

If I find myself nearby, I shall!

@linniem5982 6 месяцев назад

The biggest problem they have in New Orleans is No Jobs. They have some hotels, restaurants and tourism, but no business going on. Jobs are low paying 😮😂😅😅😊

@SuperKrisnelson800 2 года назад

Boston, MA could sink, being on a bay, and Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maine, may no longer exist.

@benjaminingram4857 2 года назад

I'm born and raised in new Orleans who idea was it to build an city on wetlands?

@stellathefoxgirl3648 2 года назад

Why do people keep draining the marshes and lakes cities are on, it just makes things worse-

@angelus_solus 2 года назад

I'd be for getting the hell out of there.

@coreysayles2002 2 года назад

I'm born and raised still living in nola

@dylanturner3216 2 года назад

Our fair city, the seat of American culture, is valuable and worth every penny of infrastructure. We supply the middle of the country with food and fuel. There are risks everywhere, read up on the New Madrid fault. If Holland can be vastly further under sea level and design tech to keep dry than why can’t we? We will eventually go under, yes but we do not have to go under without a fight and a long, long life for the city that care forgot.

@Mobelight369 2 года назад

Believe you me when they are talking about what’s bound to happen it’s a possibility that’s it shall. Come true

@javiermoretti1825 10 месяцев назад

Correction: Army Corps of Engineers, not "Army Corps of Engineering."

@e92mattt Год назад

My city man

@bangzoom22 Год назад

Building a city below sea level is not a smart idea

@alquarius86 2 года назад

if you build on land, and don't know , and in general but you can build with bricks with 2 holes and moss that helps as well

@rachaelhowey4106 2 года назад

I hope NJ is next

@hebneh 3 года назад

The possibility of a catastrophic New Orleans flood was publicized for years before Katrina, but of course people preferred not to think about it. And then it actually happened.

@2iggy_ 3 года назад

And yet the city’s still here. And your assumption is false. Natives know what could happen when it comes to hurricanes. I can tell you aren’t a native. Katrina wasn’t the first catastrophic storm for NOLA. 🤦🏾‍♂️