One More Reason To Speed Up Production

[CompTrex]

Louisiana is quickly dropping into the Gulf of Mexico

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014...ntcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork

 

[RUCRAYZE]

With all the planning EM does, I'm sure they took that into account, when the didn't pick New Orleans !!

 

[JEBar]

Shreveport is shown to be 144' above sea level .... they should be good to go for long, long time .. .. New Orleans on the other hand is shown to be -6.5 to 20 ' ....

Jim

 

[RUCRAYZE]

Shreveport is shown to be 144' above sea level .... they should be good to go for long, long time .. .. New Orleans on the other hand is shown to be -6.5 to 20 ' ....

Jim

I live 6 miles inland from the Ocean (south Florida,) and at that distance I'm <8' above the water. After careful analysis by Sept 2034, I'll have waterfront property!!!- Can't wait- let the cows fart- lets speed-up global warming!!
On the other hand owning an Elio will lower my gas costs and emissions, but prolong my beachfront abode!!

 

[Jeff Porter]

It's understandable that this is happening to New Orleans, just looking at a map of that area, it's hard to believe that land is able to exist there. As Jim pointed out, parts of New Orleans are below sea level. Coming from an inlander, that CAN'T be good.

 

[Joshua Caldwell]

I doesn't matter that it's below sea level, it matters that it is below the level of the lake and the river flowing through it.

 

[Mike W]

Having grown up beside the Mississippi I can tell you it's hazardous to live there, floods happen. To live beside that self same river but below the level of that monster is somewhere north of madness! As far as the erosion of LA, the answer of how it could happen lies in large part with the destruction of the protective wetlands that used to absorb the energy of the destructive forces thrown at its coast. Shy of reconstituting those same barriers, I'm not sure what can be done to stop the eliminaton of great swaths of LA.