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  • čas přidán 12. 03. 2020
  • 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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Komentáře • 448

  • @TheGreatLordApples
    @TheGreatLordApples Před 2 lety +40

    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
      @TMW_Photography  Před 2 lety +7

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

    • @pierrenavaille4748
      @pierrenavaille4748 Před rokem

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

    • @elizabethclaiborne6461
      @elizabethclaiborne6461 Před měsícem

      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
    @e.paradigm7415 Před 2 lety +67

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

    • @TMW_Photography
      @TMW_Photography  Před 2 lety +13

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

    • @e.paradigm7415
      @e.paradigm7415 Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @Bobby007D
      @Bobby007D Před rokem

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

  • @tiagomori2534
    @tiagomori2534 Před 2 lety +80

    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
      @Meemeeseecoo Před 2 lety +12

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

    • @voteZDLR
      @voteZDLR Před 2 lety +14

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

    • @chazl9531
      @chazl9531 Před 2 lety +7

      @@Meemeeseecoo Same with Chicago

    • @la7era1u54
      @la7era1u54 Před 2 lety +9

      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
      @voteZDLR Před 2 lety +1

      @@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.

  • @emanueljoel7971
    @emanueljoel7971 Před 2 lety +180

    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
      @GiraffeHendrikJan Před 2 lety +27

      *laughs in dutch*

    • @chiarosuburekeni9325
      @chiarosuburekeni9325 Před 2 lety +5

      @@GiraffeHendrikJan do they have to deal with hurricanes?

    • @GiraffeHendrikJan
      @GiraffeHendrikJan Před 2 lety +4

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

    • @chiarosuburekeni9325
      @chiarosuburekeni9325 Před 2 lety +21

      @@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
      @GiraffeHendrikJan Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @coahomajno6888
    @coahomajno6888 Před 2 lety +159

    It’s very eerie watching this today

    • @Calilou52
      @Calilou52 Před 2 lety +11

      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
      @Jake-rs9nq Před 2 lety +8

      @@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
      @scorpixel1866 Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @Calilou52
      @Calilou52 Před 2 lety +1

      @Shoenheim because eeeeverythings a conspiracy right?

    • @dadestarmysteries255
      @dadestarmysteries255 Před 2 lety

      @@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.

  • @ohigh6
    @ohigh6 Před 2 lety +41

    How many are watching this after Ida?

    • @KB-ke3fi
      @KB-ke3fi Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @user-uo7fw5bo1o
      @user-uo7fw5bo1o Před 28 dny

      Here! Her eye went over N.O.

  • @blcouch
    @blcouch Před 2 lety +25

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

    • @rachaelhowey4106
      @rachaelhowey4106 Před 2 lety +2

      isn't that America?

    • @indiecraze5227
      @indiecraze5227 Před 2 lety +4

      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
      @gooxh Před 2 lety +5

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

    • @SmartChannel01
      @SmartChannel01 Před rokem +1

      Florida too

  • @ricenoodlegaming
    @ricenoodlegaming Před 3 lety +126

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

    • @tonyfournier3298
      @tonyfournier3298 Před 2 lety +10

      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
      @nickhill8612 Před 2 lety +3

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

  • @pierrenavaille4748
    @pierrenavaille4748 Před 2 lety +23

    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.

  • @AdviceDuck
    @AdviceDuck Před 2 lety +29

    Ida just came through and wrecked our shid

    • @downsouth822
      @downsouth822 Před 2 lety

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

  • @KAlovesherkitties
    @KAlovesherkitties Před 2 lety +37

    Watching this while currently living in New Orleans: Eep.

    • @Meemeeseecoo
      @Meemeeseecoo Před 2 lety +8

      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
      @supersentaipepsi3736 Před 2 lety

      You guys got your power on yet?

    • @BeefHamMan
      @BeefHamMan Před 2 lety

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

    • @coreysayles2002
      @coreysayles2002 Před 2 lety

      Doing the same

    • @ahmadpickett
      @ahmadpickett Před 2 lety

      Right after Ida

  • @cantsay8894
    @cantsay8894 Před 2 lety +61

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

    • @khao4577
      @khao4577 Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @tiko4621
      @tiko4621 Před 2 lety +3

      The Netherlands has been doing it for the longest…

    • @khao4577
      @khao4577 Před 2 lety +1

      @@tiko4621 you mean the nether?

    • @4realjacob637
      @4realjacob637 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @KB-ke3fi
      @KB-ke3fi Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @ivryrayborn5970
    @ivryrayborn5970 Před rokem +7

    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.

  • @datking9184
    @datking9184 Před 2 lety +39

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

    • @deandre2680
      @deandre2680 Před 2 lety +6

      Same for Mexico city

    • @nickhill8612
      @nickhill8612 Před 2 lety +2

      And California is falling into the ocean.

    • @alex22153
      @alex22153 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @andrewnunnes
      @andrewnunnes Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @alex22153
      @alex22153 Před 2 lety +4

      @@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
    @Madskillsuniversity Před rokem +4

    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

  • @agentpr24
    @agentpr24 Před 3 lety +22

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

  • @JPerez-zm4kr
    @JPerez-zm4kr Před 3 lety +3

    Great video. Super informative

  • @LegalShield3000
    @LegalShield3000 Před 3 lety +130

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

    • @elibullockpapa9012
      @elibullockpapa9012 Před 2 lety +21

      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
      @Whyoakdbi Před 2 lety +8

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

    • @kaloianmitrev6279
      @kaloianmitrev6279 Před 2 lety +4

      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
      @beldinalanti1850 Před 2 lety +8

      @@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
      @Menibor1 Před 2 lety +1

      Tell that to Arthur curry

  • @johngordonwyland
    @johngordonwyland Před 2 lety +16

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

    • @Johnn_Vasquez
      @Johnn_Vasquez Před 2 lety +1

      Houston got very lucky.

    • @candyjjames9040
      @candyjjames9040 Před 2 lety

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

    • @Johnn_Vasquez
      @Johnn_Vasquez Před 2 lety +4

      @@candyjjames9040 we weren’t lucky in 2017 😓

    • @KB-ke3fi
      @KB-ke3fi Před 2 lety

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

    • @haroldpurcell4656
      @haroldpurcell4656 Před 2 lety

      @@candyjjames9040 what about harvey

  • @Victor-tl4dk
    @Victor-tl4dk Před rokem +6

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

  • @NEWNATURE777
    @NEWNATURE777 Před 2 lety +2

    Great contents! You should have more subscribers 👍

  • @ChristChickAutistic
    @ChristChickAutistic Před 2 lety +5

    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.

  • @forcedair92gt94
    @forcedair92gt94 Před 2 lety +16

    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.

  • @FlowerItzel18
    @FlowerItzel18 Před 2 lety +9

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

    • @tikilanichols8023
      @tikilanichols8023 Před rokem +2

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

    • @e92mattt
      @e92mattt Před rokem

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

    • @bangzoom22
      @bangzoom22 Před rokem +1

      I’ve heard it’s a dirty city

    • @javiermoretti1825
      @javiermoretti1825 Před 9 měsíci

      @@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.

  • @deluxeh0
    @deluxeh0 Před 2 lety +5

    Home prices in Nola have dropped after this video

  • @sagemulkey9890
    @sagemulkey9890 Před 3 lety +3

    Great video.

  • @h.b.3557
    @h.b.3557 Před 2 lety +7

    Guess we're about to find out

  • @alexwood5425
    @alexwood5425 Před 2 lety +2

    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.

  • @Chai_biscuits77
    @Chai_biscuits77 Před 2 lety +4

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

  • @theodoremonroe6440
    @theodoremonroe6440 Před 2 lety

    Very informative

  • @arfythefoxmovedchannels1926

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

    • @Sxwayz15
      @Sxwayz15 Před 3 lety

      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
      @brycenurding8133 Před 2 lety

      @@Sxwayz15 very wise advice.

    • @Sxwayz15
      @Sxwayz15 Před 2 lety

      @@brycenurding8133 thank you.

    • @Hold_Fast_Clanmcleod
      @Hold_Fast_Clanmcleod Před rokem +2

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

  • @Deeplycloseted435
    @Deeplycloseted435 Před 2 lety +15

    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
      @PoboyMusic Před rokem +1

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

    • @smartmarketing173
      @smartmarketing173 Před rokem

      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?

  • @TurtleFootMining
    @TurtleFootMining Před 2 lety +24

    This aged well didn’t it?

  • @denisewilliams9987
    @denisewilliams9987 Před 2 lety +5

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

    • @deandre2680
      @deandre2680 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @KB-ke3fi
      @KB-ke3fi Před 2 lety

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

  • @jaredlewis8689
    @jaredlewis8689 Před 2 lety +5

    Harvey was a 100 year storm for reference

    • @candyjjames9040
      @candyjjames9040 Před 2 lety

      Harvey was houston storm 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽

    • @KB-ke3fi
      @KB-ke3fi Před 2 lety

      @@candyjjames9040 We know that, Forrest.

  • @dwjoseph59
    @dwjoseph59 Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @MrHistory269
    @MrHistory269 Před 4 lety +20

    The Dutch
    *Amateurs*
    But good video 👍

    • @TMW_Photography
      @TMW_Photography  Před 4 lety +1

      I like it

    • @inyobill
      @inyobill Před 2 lety +1

      Not directly comparable environments.

    • @r.a.6459
      @r.a.6459 Před 2 lety +1

      You cannot compare New Orleans and Amsterdam. Different mindsets.

  • @lamarsmith5971
    @lamarsmith5971 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @trae701
    @trae701 Před 2 lety +10

    Interesting sense of humor CZcams

    • @tylerspeier3161
      @tylerspeier3161 Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @DylanMcMullen
      @DylanMcMullen Před 2 lety

      Ikr? At least i got power back

  • @alexcostelloe4204
    @alexcostelloe4204 Před 2 lety +58

    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
      @Meemeeseecoo Před 2 lety +9

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

    • @chiarosuburekeni9325
      @chiarosuburekeni9325 Před 2 lety +23

      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
      @adadadatt Před 2 lety +5

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

    • @DavidVillaTorre
      @DavidVillaTorre Před 2 lety +2

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

    • @KB-ke3fi
      @KB-ke3fi Před 2 lety

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

  • @gilbertcavazos6541
    @gilbertcavazos6541 Před 2 lety +24

    Too much infrastructure issues just to keep a city going wow

    • @Meemeeseecoo
      @Meemeeseecoo Před 2 lety +5

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

    • @Neppy1414
      @Neppy1414 Před 2 lety

      But it’s an extraordinary city🥰🥰🥰🥰

  • @RespawnJupiter
    @RespawnJupiter Před měsícem

    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 ☹️

  • @tbori180
    @tbori180 Před 3 lety +14

    They’re bout to get hit again 😔 🙏🏾

    • @TMW_Photography
      @TMW_Photography  Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @johnedmonds674
      @johnedmonds674 Před 3 lety

      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
      @TMW_Photography  Před 3 lety

      @@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, CZcams Studio is a little funky with notifying me of comments.

    • @LouisianaCreole
      @LouisianaCreole Před 3 lety +4

      New Orleans was completely untouched by hurricanes in 2020

    • @deaconrich6317
      @deaconrich6317 Před 3 lety

      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.

  • @kevinnapier8996
    @kevinnapier8996 Před 2 lety +6

    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
      @markrobinson1135 Před 2 lety +4

      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
      @jayrowell2468 Před 2 lety +1

      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
      @black_horse_lover2655 Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @booksteer7057
    @booksteer7057 Před 3 lety +8

    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
      @pierrenavaille4748 Před 2 lety +1

      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
      @booksteer7057 Před 2 lety

      @@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!)

  • @spaniardprince
    @spaniardprince Před 3 lety +1

    Subbed

  • @la7era1u54
    @la7era1u54 Před 2 lety +5

    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

  • @jorgeher3233
    @jorgeher3233 Před 2 lety

    No worries. Life goes on!

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 Před 2 lety

      Though better somewhere else.

  • @MrCubFan415
    @MrCubFan415 Před 2 lety +3

    Sounds like New Orleans could learn a lesson from the Netherlands

  • @richardgalli7262
    @richardgalli7262 Před 2 lety +11

    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
      @usawrestling8835 Před 2 lety +6

      @Shoenheim nice hairline

    • @nickhill8612
      @nickhill8612 Před 2 lety

      @Shoenheim
      Haha haha that's funny

    • @nickhill8612
      @nickhill8612 Před 2 lety

      @@usawrestling8835
      To funny

    • @georgek8182
      @georgek8182 Před 2 lety +2

      'the polar caps are intact' lol

    • @stewartgames6697
      @stewartgames6697 Před 2 lety

      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

  • @calengr1
    @calengr1 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @bevleighlange3312
    @bevleighlange3312 Před 2 lety +7

    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
      @bevleighlange3312 Před 2 lety +1

      @@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

  • @AltairKennedy
    @AltairKennedy Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @brandywine1548
    @brandywine1548 Před 2 lety +3

    There you have it you warning move away from sea

  • @thehorrorartist9317
    @thehorrorartist9317 Před rokem

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

  • @williamdennis3574
    @williamdennis3574 Před 2 lety +24

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

    • @Meemeeseecoo
      @Meemeeseecoo Před 2 lety +7

      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
      @jasonrock5220 Před 2 lety +3

      Thank God for Texas

    • @dinosaurus598
      @dinosaurus598 Před 2 lety +1

      NOLA has about 20-30 years left.

  • @SpeedyCorky
    @SpeedyCorky Před 2 lety +1

    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
      @TMW_Photography  Před 2 lety

      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.

  • @keefmeister77
    @keefmeister77 Před rokem +1

    "...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.

  • @tedsmith6137
    @tedsmith6137 Před 2 lety

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

  • @Sam-vo1lf
    @Sam-vo1lf Před 2 lety +7

    Maybe they should explore green alternatives like floodplain restoration

    • @amibeingdetained3417
      @amibeingdetained3417 Před 2 lety +4

      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
      @Sam-vo1lf Před 2 lety

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

  • @RandomLBS
    @RandomLBS Před 2 lety +5

    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
      @SuperKrisnelson800 Před 2 lety

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

    • @SuperKrisnelson800
      @SuperKrisnelson800 Před 2 lety

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

  • @WildWestPros
    @WildWestPros Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @forcemajeur.5138
    @forcemajeur.5138 Před 2 lety +1

    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
      @roxannehudson7410 Před 10 měsíci

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

    • @roxannehudson7410
      @roxannehudson7410 Před 10 měsíci

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

    • @forcemajeur.5138
      @forcemajeur.5138 Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@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.

  • @donaldgibbons2616
    @donaldgibbons2616 Před 2 lety +2

    Never did exactly say when

    • @TMW_Photography
      @TMW_Photography  Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @ddeeddee1380
    @ddeeddee1380 Před 2 lety +1

    They been saying that since I was born

  • @jusgie
    @jusgie Před 2 lety +3

    Im a nola native smh.

  • @norml.hugh-mann
    @norml.hugh-mann Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @r.a.6459
    @r.a.6459 Před 2 lety +56

    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
      @craigweaver8542 Před 2 lety +3

      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
      @Calilou52 Před 2 lety +20

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

    • @Meemeeseecoo
      @Meemeeseecoo Před 2 lety +2

      This comment is pretty ignorant / mis-informed.

    • @craigweaver8542
      @craigweaver8542 Před 2 lety

      @@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
      @foxgeist3129 Před 2 lety

      @@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.

  • @jermaineb4602
    @jermaineb4602 Před 2 lety +1

    Do one on baton rouge

  • @KingSpaceySprockets
    @KingSpaceySprockets Před 3 lety

    *enters the Jetsons

  • @linniem5982
    @linniem5982 Před 6 měsíci

    They keep working on solutions here. ❤😊😊

  • @morpheus6394
    @morpheus6394 Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you for using metric

  • @JamesJones-cx5pk
    @JamesJones-cx5pk Před rokem

    Those 100 year old pumps don't instill confidence.

  • @angelus_solus
    @angelus_solus Před 2 lety

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

  • @ahmadpickett
    @ahmadpickett Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @jameswillard1
    @jameswillard1 Před 2 lety +6

    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 😳

  • @rachaelhowey4106
    @rachaelhowey4106 Před 2 lety

    I hope NJ is next

  • @nathaneverson9949
    @nathaneverson9949 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @cognitivepawn
    @cognitivepawn Před 2 lety

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

  • @orkas9027
    @orkas9027 Před 3 lety

    Lol no wonder they made a song called “new Orleans sinking”

  • @calengr1
    @calengr1 Před 2 lety

    06:02 breacxhable very 20 years

  • @stellathefoxgirl3648
    @stellathefoxgirl3648 Před 2 lety

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

  • @scotsasnett
    @scotsasnett Před 2 lety +3

    The city will be fine.

    • @jamesjoslin7586
      @jamesjoslin7586 Před 2 lety +1

      Right.

    • @Meemeeseecoo
      @Meemeeseecoo Před 2 lety +2

      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
      @pierrenavaille4748 Před 2 lety

      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.

  • @benjaminingram4857
    @benjaminingram4857 Před 2 lety

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

  • @Mandas999
    @Mandas999 Před 2 lety

    Lets give it 10 years

  • @hellomyfriends9740
    @hellomyfriends9740 Před 2 lety

    Just came here due to Ida

  • @faithsfabulousbeautybar6756

    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.

  • @Mobelight369
    @Mobelight369 Před 2 lety

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

  • @neilreinecke3243
    @neilreinecke3243 Před rokem

    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.

  • @e92mattt
    @e92mattt Před rokem

    My city man

  • @CharlieFBarassi
    @CharlieFBarassi Před 3 lety +12

    this city showld move ..is the perfect city trap for the greeenhouse effects

    • @lalouisianecreole4883
      @lalouisianecreole4883 Před 3 lety +12

      We won't move honey were to stubborn
      True New Orleanians will die before they even consider moving the city
      It wouldn't even be New Orleans anymore
      Centuries of history and culture and traditions
      Generations and generations of families
      Rich Lore and Deep Passion are embedded into the Hearts of New Orleanians
      We'll Die with our city

    • @eternalnjem
      @eternalnjem Před 3 lety +7

      @@lalouisianecreole4883 true idiot would die before leaving *

    • @lalouisianecreole4883
      @lalouisianecreole4883 Před 3 lety +5

      @@eternalnjem
      ah someone with no Pride, Honor, and Passion. You definitely aren’t a New Orleanian
      It’s something you would never understand, Je n’ai pas besoin de m’expliquer à un étranger, encore 300 ans à partir de Maintenant, La Nouvelle-Orléans restra dans les mémories et chéri.
      For you to insult the pure love that New Orleanians have for their city, many of whom Their ancestors came to, goes to show your upbringing, to jeer at those who have something sacred, you have no Honor
      Vous êtes l’idiot et le déshonorant.

    • @eternalnjem
      @eternalnjem Před 3 lety

      @@lalouisianecreole4883 You are right, my parents aren’t from this country 🤝

    • @arfythefoxmovedchannels1926
      @arfythefoxmovedchannels1926 Před 3 lety +2

      @@lalouisianecreole4883 I don’t wanna die with New Orleans and I want to city to live because... it was my home.. it gave me the perfect life living in it but... it’s dying... and that made me sad

  • @10Peter25
    @10Peter25 Před 2 lety

    And then along came Ida.

  • @elric_310
    @elric_310 Před 3 lety +2

    Hurricane Sally...

  • @standingbear998
    @standingbear998 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @Phamyunx
    @Phamyunx Před rokem

    Just let it go!

  • @joshuagould548
    @joshuagould548 Před rokem

    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.

  • @Fluskar
    @Fluskar Před 2 lety +1

    bruhhhh

  • @tedsmith6137
    @tedsmith6137 Před 2 lety

    The City flood defence upgrading cost of $50,000,000,000 is just 3 weeks worth of Defence spending. Think about that. Where are the priorities?

  • @SuperKrisnelson800
    @SuperKrisnelson800 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @Rickyrab
    @Rickyrab Před 2 lety

    -16 years. Perhaps we should have bailed out of N'awlins after Hurricane Katrina.