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by beerandt 5y ago
It was an option presented to the politicians and they rejected it in favor of starting in sync with the grid. If they would have done a black start, rejoining the grid would have apparently been more complicated. But the bigger point is: w
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by beerandt 5y ago
Depends- at some point it usually becomes cheaper to provide flood protection, if enough houses are close to one another. Plus those grants are kinda complex to navigate, and you can't do it as an individual. It has to be part of a loc
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by beerandt 5y ago
That meteor equation isn't the right one to use. It's based on assumptions that don't apply here. It has to be re-derived, at a minimum, if it can even be repurposed. Any dt equation like that should have some value of X_fina
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by beerandt 5y ago
No- but they also shouldn't open a store just to try and catch thieves.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Your source is container only. Total Tonnage US: 1 Houston, TX 284.9 2 South Louisiana, LA, Port of 238.0 3 New York, NY and NJ 136.6 4 Corpus Christi, TX 111.2 5 Beaumont, TX 101.1 6 New Orleans, LA 92. 7 Long Beach, CA 80.7 8 Baton
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by beerandt 5y ago
The federal government actually does have block grant programs to buy out homeowners, or will pay to raise their house, if the cost is cheaper than building a levee or similar flood protection.
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by beerandt 5y ago
It just means everything gets built on piles, so there's a lot of local experience. I wouldn't say better, because there are/were multiple skyscrapers with chunks of facade falling off them. At least a couple are abandoned
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by beerandt 5y ago
Will? New Orleans already has.
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by beerandt 5y ago
It was mostly geotech failures related to the organic material mentioned above, combined with a patchwork system at that point in time. The post-Katrina improvements have combined the patchwork systems into one. The improvements should have
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by beerandt 5y ago
I don't think that's the counter point you think it is. The fact that Entergy has to do so much to convince the city to allow a power plant to be built, should be all the proof you need, as far as why no one wants to invest in the
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by beerandt 5y ago
The LA CPRA coastal master plan, combined with army corps of engineers studies on further improving the post-Katrina levees. I'm trying to find the levee recommendations, but Biden's takeover seems to have broken all my bookmarks
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by beerandt 5y ago
Oil companies are responsible for the canals, but that only allowed salt water to intrude quicker after rain or floods. But it doesn't change the overall regime of becoming salt dominant. It just means maybe 40 freshwater days a year i
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by beerandt 5y ago
The levees can be raised. And the buildings are on piles already. Relatively simple to raise, if needed, compared to what other coastal cities will have to do. With extra stress on the word relatively .
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And I only use New York City as an example, because of the argument about spending money on investments and infrastructure near sea level. People aren't currently avoiding New York because of sea level rise. And are spending far great
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by beerandt 5y ago
>a 1.5ft rise in sea level It won't, precisely because New Orleans already has many places below sea level. It's got a head start. It's spent billions of dollars over 100+ years making the outer boundaries water tight, a
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by beerandt 5y ago
We're not talking about a beach here. Sand underground with overburden pressure is quite stable, to the point that piles driven to it are treated as bearing piles (supported primarily on the end/tip), not friction piles (supported
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by beerandt 5y ago
Probably high 5 figures to mid 6 figures, depending on what you count as rebuilding. Lots of houses with no roof, or with trees through them that could go either way re teardown or repair. I don't think anyone knows just yet. It took 4
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by beerandt 5y ago
Still gonna argue that's more politics than fear of flooding.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Climate isn't the problem with any of those issues, politics is. It's not fear of flooding that prevents anyone from investing in, eg New Orleans East. It's two decades of zero policing. And there's a reason Entergy cont
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by beerandt 5y ago
The problem in San Francisco is entirely different. It's on poorly designed building. Even if every building in San Francisco had that problem, it still wouldn't be relevant. The problem strata in New Orleans is the top 10-20&#x27
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by beerandt 5y ago
Outside of levee protections, structures are all on piles above the flood elevation, so floods literally go under the house. Inside levee protections, as the system currently exists, it doesn't, so houses have to have sand pumped under
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by beerandt 5y ago
If you don't go through it, it must not be that bad. If you do go through it, it was worse than the category/ windspeed/ storm surge numbers convey. "You just had to be there! It was way worse than just a tropical depres
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by beerandt 5y ago
If you've never had to deal with it, you don't comprehend the danger. I know workers that moved to New Orleans after Katrina to do the actual post storm cleanup, first hand, and didn't evacuate for Ida, knowing it was a more
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by beerandt 5y ago
>For an area that is already on average 7 feet below sea level. There are areas as low as -22' msl. Maybe -25'. But that's irrelevant, because the edge of the bowl and protection is at a minimum elevation ~+20' msl an
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by beerandt 5y ago
With the political nature and extreme size of the project, there weren't many engineering companies with a presence in SE LA that didn't get a sizable contract out of it.
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by beerandt 5y ago
News coverage is really dropping the ball on this one. It might not have the optics of Katrina, but it was a far more powerful, even if smaller, storm. Eg: New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and SE LA power outage maps [0][1][2] Based on the damage
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by beerandt 5y ago
Cities across the country will die much sooner from economic and political reasons than New Orleans will die from subsidence. (Although New Orleans is likely included in that first set as well, based on current leadership.) But we don'
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by beerandt 5y ago
This is alarmist BS. I worked on the surveys and cors equipment that directly measures subsidence in Louisiana, and have worked on many of the levees and other coastal civil works. Relocation? For a problem that hasn't happened yet and
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by beerandt 5y ago
>that is covered under statute, And this Texas law gives statutory standing.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Isn't this just over the top, perhaps unintentional, method acting?

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