These flood gates weren't built until a couple of years after Katrina, so i't not like they've been sitting open for 30+ years. Still cool to see them in action. Here's hoping they're not needed ….
Operation Comprehension -- you mean rights to get harassed while sitting on their porch? Rights to walk the street and be harassed by cops and killed and shot from the back? You mean rights to protest, as long as they know they will be targeted, pepper sprayed for the heck of it? You mean rights to apply for a job , but no guarantees? You mean those rights!.? Rights to be represented at the round table of decision making, that never happens! Yeah rights to be manhandled to the ground and murdered without any justice! . You mean those rights? Yeah 🗣HOUSTON ,🗣 we got a problem! Yeah the right to spend the oppressors money and get stopped and accousted because you actually paid your bill while black!! You mean those rights! Can I hear you! Huh!? Or are you retarded, there was nothing great about America , that's why they needed to kidnap people and convert them to slaves!
Darrick Thomas - my dear, the mere fact that we have a birth certificate with a given name instead of our original tongue name that is the selling, the bondage, social security numbers all on stock exchange, using negroes for human capital, just different methodology! Yes bought and sold by ships is exactly what happened! Kidnapped for sex and talent and ability to be systematically abused by any means through any means necessary including Spanish Inquisition in case there are objectors! Know your history! Think about your circumstance!
Thank you. He said he'd lived there 34 years and never seen them closed, which implies that they'd been there for that length of time, which automatically raises the question of Katrina. Them being a direct result of that storm makes way more sense. :)
I'm not going to pretend like I'm very educated on flood gates but it seems like having a flood wall In the middle of the highway would make it very difficult for people trying to evacuate
The Flood Control Authority came into existence as the result of the great and preventable tragedy of Katrina. The three major contributory factors were: 1) The New Orleans Levee Board refused permission or funding to install locks or gates at the three major canal outfall openings draining from the city into Lake Pontchartrain. As the storm winds drove Katrina in her counter clockwise motion through the Rigolets (another location the US Corps of Engineers had recommended a lock), and a wall of water 20+ foot high rushed into the canals. There were no locks. 2) Mayor Roy Nagin was offered a relief train by Amtrak- which could come in via the trestle track before rising flood waters closed the escape route. Mayor Nagin rejected the offer-saying he would keep his “chocolate city”, then flew to Dallas with his family. 3) Governor Kathleen Babineaix Blanco refused President George W. Bush’s offer to send the National Guard. She spent the first 36 hours, as shown by emails, setting up her New Orleans Hurricane Relief Foundation. A 501c organization, the officers were Governor Blanco, her husband and their lawyer, Robert Perret. As the size of this great catastrophe became clear, every state in the United States sent money as did almost every country in the world. The deaths and destruction have been nailed on the U.S. Corps of Engineers. Governor Blanco is gone, but her charity is still listed in Newport Beach, Ca. The Flood Control Authority is no longer controlled by the city, but by the Governor with an advisory council appointing at least one certified civil engineer. 1,590 lives, $91 billion dollars later.
Preventable tragedy???? LOL You do realize that the Army Corp of Engineers gave ZERO guarantee that the levies would hold a Cat 5 storm......right??? And isn't it interesting that 91 BILLION was given to this....but 2 Billion for the Trump wall??? WHERE WE GONNA GET THAT MONEY???? LMFAO
Hold on... so a black Democratic mayor denied New Orleans help, fled the city with his family, was racist in his following speeches, the Democratic Governor also refused help from the Republican President... yet Kanye said George W Bush doesn't care about black people? What?
What if it did? That could've been a lifesaver. Plus, if New Orleans created better, more effective, and beneficial flood prevention techniques, lives could've been saved. If I had a time machine, I should make that happen.
Hiden is finding that W A L L S Work in more ways than one. Unfortunately, for the American people, he isn't smart enough to have the level of understanding to KNOW this without it needing to be demonstrated on a daily, disastrous basis. 16000 unaccompanied minors, and growing daily.
Actually, it slowed the water down in that one spot only but didn't stop it entirely from seeping through the cracks and holes. And it couldn't stop the water flooding in from elsewhere. Nice try though.
This reminds me of a zombie apocalypse!!!! Hurry up and close the gates before the zombies get us !!!! But to be serious for a moment this is my question ??? What happens if you get stuck on the wrong side of the wall
@Kevin Warriner I guess I spoke too soon LOL by the end of the video I can see the driveway going up and down LOL 😂 ❤️ thank you so much for your comment! Hugs hugs hugs
This took way too long, and involved way too many workers. The simplest of hook, cable, and pulley systems could make this so any police or fire vehicle could hook up, and pull these into place with a winch or just the power of the vehicle itself. That way, the proper authority with the proper code could make what amounts to a single nine one one call, the nearest unit is dispatched, and 5 to 10 minutes after the word is given, those gates are closed. The system should be exercised or drilled once or twice per year just so nothing gets seized up, and some moving parts can get lubricated. Dispatching half a dozen guys in the ubiquitous day-glo vests and hard hats whose job seems to be pointing and shouting and talking to someone on the radio, plus some guy with a skid-steer to engage some tiny little tabs he can barely see, and just push, like he was pushing a wrecked vehicle off the road- ? Really? This just doesn’t seem very well thought out at all. Brought to you by the same people that will hold your life in their hands when TSHTF, whether flood or other calamity. Remember, the whole of all society, the entire nation, is about nine meals from anarchy... and that’s for average people... remember Katrina? The looters didn’t wait that long.
Agreed on all points... events of the last couple years ought to show you all you need to know about how delicate the balance of society is, and how incompetent the people we rely upon are.
You'd think those 2 vehicles down the road would want to get on this side of the barricade before the gate was closed. If the gate is needed those vehicles have no way of getting out.
Cairo, IL has had a flood wall as early as 1960, maybe longer. Wall is meant to control Ohio River flooding. Unfortunately, it empties into the Mississippi River, which to my knowledge cannot be tamed.
What do you do whene all these workers ore equipment is not available due... THE STORM...? And did somebody not tell the engineers about some form of automated systems for the closing and securing the doors?
Such huge gates took very little effort to close, and locked into position by what appeared to be 1/2” bolts and wing nuts, are they aware of water pressure?
I'm just guessing (and hoping) there is another locking mechanism apart from that. Even if its sufficient enough, I would have a giant nut and bolt just in case!
LOL at all the people saying those on the wrong side of the wall were going to be stuck there. The video literally panned to the temporary elevated roadway that takes cars and pedestrians from one side to the other, over the levee next to the gates 7:40 . Including some people walking up and down it!
They'll never learn. Long ago the sections of New Orleans that are from five feet above sea level or lower should have been turned into canals in a Venice-like fashion.
Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord. Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord. Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord. Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord. Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord. Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord. Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord. TT
That doesn't seem to be high enough. Does anyone feel the same? Not high enough. You are talking about mother nature. It almost feels like power of a matchstick.
So, if gates, are close. How, do you get home. Do you park car. Outside gates walk, home. That is wrong. It should be some way. In or Out. Are you sure, it water. Or something else. Like Prison.
Anyone else think that this is perfect for a zombie apocalypse defense...
Resident evil 2
Not like they could pile up on each other like the zombies lol
Yes
@@ahmednoseir7433 Lol WWZ
@@user-pr9kh9xc3t hy
Thanks to The Netherlands for the help in constructing the flood gate !!!
😂😂😂😂
Archer western was contracted in that section. A bunch of Texas boys were working that east area. I don't recall Netherlands anything lol
These flood gates weren't built until a couple of years after Katrina, so i't not like they've been sitting open for 30+ years. Still cool to see them in action. Here's hoping they're not needed ….
Thanks! I was just going to ask about Katrina and those gates.
@@operationcomprehension6206 ....how do you know the color of the skin of the other commenter?
Operation Comprehension -- you mean rights to get harassed while sitting on their porch? Rights to walk the street and be harassed by cops and killed and shot from the back? You mean rights to protest, as long as they know they will be targeted, pepper sprayed for the heck of it? You mean rights to apply for a job , but no guarantees? You mean those rights!.? Rights to be represented at the round table of decision making, that never happens! Yeah rights to be manhandled to the ground and murdered without any justice! . You mean those rights? Yeah 🗣HOUSTON ,🗣 we got a problem! Yeah the right to spend the oppressors money and get stopped and accousted because you actually paid your bill while black!! You mean those rights! Can I hear you! Huh!? Or are you retarded, there was nothing great about America , that's why they needed to kidnap people and convert them to slaves!
Darrick Thomas - my dear, the mere fact that we have a birth certificate with a given name instead of our original tongue name that is the selling, the bondage, social security numbers all on stock exchange, using negroes for human capital, just different methodology! Yes bought and sold by ships is exactly what happened! Kidnapped for sex and talent and ability to be systematically abused by any means through any means necessary including Spanish Inquisition in case there are objectors! Know your history! Think about your circumstance!
Thank you. He said he'd lived there 34 years and never seen them closed, which implies that they'd been there for that length of time, which automatically raises the question of Katrina. Them being a direct result of that storm makes way more sense. :)
W: “Honey, go get me some milk”
H: “ Sure, my love , I’ll be right back”
Gates closing in progress...
When is daddy coming home?
@@himhim3344 4 weeks later, he still ain’t back...
0:30 , 2:46 they have sloping cement stairs on both sides of the hill areas and ladders on the damn, so should not be an issue
So take the detour road up and over?
@@himhim3344what's your favorite kind of milk, the one my dad never brought back
The day they finish building the gate. “ wow it really looks great.... how do we close it?”
_The guy who just made it for the looks and didnt put any Redstone in it:_ *"ya dont"*
guy talking "this little peice of equipment"
me "I TS CALLED A SKID STEER
USUAL dumb reporter/ talking head. all mouth. no knowledge.
I think that "little piece of equipment" is called skidsteer
Not gonna lie. it looks like a good setting for a zombie apocalype movie where that specific gate is the only way to enter/exit the city.
Exactly!
People can't seem to contemplate there being more than one road and some being high enough not to require gating
I'm not going to pretend like I'm very educated on flood gates but it seems like having a flood wall In the middle of the highway would make it very difficult for people trying to evacuate
Lol thats the point man and people dont realize it
Ut ohhh.
They gave out mandatory evacuate before they close them. If you don't leave it's on you.
Practice make perfect, just initiation thinking.
Yes almost like people will be trapped.
Good target for drivers on their cell phone.
"That gate came out of nowhere and hit my car!"
The Flood Control Authority came into existence as the result of the great and preventable tragedy of Katrina.
The three major contributory factors were:
1) The New Orleans Levee Board refused permission or funding to install locks or gates at the three major canal outfall openings draining from the city into Lake Pontchartrain. As the storm winds drove Katrina in her counter clockwise motion through the Rigolets (another location the US Corps of Engineers had recommended a lock), and a wall of water 20+ foot high rushed into the canals.
There were no locks.
2) Mayor Roy Nagin was offered a relief train by Amtrak- which could come in via the trestle track before rising flood waters closed the escape route. Mayor Nagin rejected the offer-saying he would keep his “chocolate city”, then flew to Dallas with his family.
3) Governor Kathleen Babineaix Blanco refused President George W. Bush’s offer to send the National Guard. She spent the first 36 hours, as shown by emails, setting up her New Orleans Hurricane Relief Foundation. A 501c organization, the officers were Governor Blanco, her husband and their lawyer, Robert Perret.
As the size of this great catastrophe became clear, every state in the United States sent money as did almost every country in the world.
The deaths and destruction have been nailed on the U.S. Corps of Engineers. Governor Blanco is gone, but her charity is still listed in Newport Beach, Ca.
The Flood Control Authority is no longer controlled by
the city, but by the Governor with an advisory council appointing at least one certified civil engineer.
1,590 lives, $91 billion dollars later.
Preventable tragedy???? LOL
You do realize that the Army Corp of Engineers gave ZERO guarantee that the levies would hold a Cat 5 storm......right???
And isn't it interesting that 91 BILLION was given to this....but 2 Billion for the Trump wall??? WHERE WE GONNA GET THAT MONEY???? LMFAO
The gears of change are always greased by blood
Hold on... so a black Democratic mayor denied New Orleans help, fled the city with his family, was racist in his following speeches, the Democratic Governor also refused help from the Republican President... yet Kanye said George W Bush doesn't care about black people? What?
Democrats man
I love the stop sign screwed to the middle of a flood gate the size of a barn....I wonder if there is a story behind that?
It’s reflective. Probably for night time
I see there's a road off to the side that goes up the side of the berm and over so that people can still get through.
Fascinating to watch. Wonderful job.
I like how fast it goes in place
Good live shot! Unique and interesting.
Something is not right with this picture 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Are you looking at it with ur good eye?
Halojump123 😂
What came first? The skid steer or the flood gate?
The Medieval walled city of New Orleans!
If you go Chef Highway to Irish Bayou, you can get to I-10 still.
Too bad that wasn't there for hurricane Katrina.
Ikr I wasn’t not even alive when hurricane Katrina happened
@@jordanhudson3417 dam it’s almost like people were here before you
What if it did? That could've been a lifesaver. Plus, if New Orleans created better, more effective, and beneficial flood prevention techniques, lives could've been saved. If I had a time machine, I should make that happen.
Which side would the water be coming from? ... I mean there are trucks and people on both sides.
Cooool ~~> Always wanted to see this.
This is the starting scene(s) of "The Dead Don't Die."
I had no clue this existed.
Ok, now this is concerning to me!
gRosh08 they tryna trap them ppl in tht water.
Huge gates but tiny bolts that press them to to concrete?
Why are these gates do thick?
I can't be all steel throughout can it?
I see that walls do work.
Build The Wall, Build The Wall 2020 USA, AMERICA FIRST, AMERICANS FIRST !!!
Hiden is finding that W A L L S Work in more ways than one. Unfortunately, for the American people, he isn't smart enough to have the level of understanding to KNOW this without it needing to be demonstrated on a daily, disastrous basis. 16000 unaccompanied minors, and growing daily.
Actually, it slowed the water down in that one spot only but didn't stop it entirely from seeping through the cracks and holes. And it couldn't stop the water flooding in from elsewhere.
Nice try though.
Wow that's awesome 😊😊😊 trying to stop 🛑 the water
This reminds me of a zombie apocalypse!!!! Hurry up and close the gates before the zombies get us !!!! But to be serious for a moment this is my question ??? What happens if you get stuck on the wrong side of the wall
Ohhhhhh I see now! They have a roadway to get in and out
@Kevin Warriner I guess I spoke too soon LOL by the end of the video I can see the driveway going up and down LOL 😂 ❤️ thank you so much for your comment! Hugs hugs hugs
Was the camera in East Berlin or west Berlin. Just saying...what happens if someone closes the gate and there are hundreds of people on the other side
So if the bobcat is broken how will the gate be shut?
This took way too long, and involved way too many workers. The simplest of hook, cable, and pulley systems could make this so any police or fire vehicle could hook up, and pull these into place with a winch or just the power of the vehicle itself. That way, the proper authority with the proper code could make what amounts to a single nine one one call, the nearest unit is dispatched, and 5 to 10 minutes after the word is given, those gates are closed. The system should be exercised or drilled once or twice per year just so nothing gets seized up, and some moving parts can get lubricated. Dispatching half a dozen guys in the ubiquitous day-glo vests and hard hats whose job seems to be pointing and shouting and talking to someone on the radio, plus some guy with a skid-steer to engage some tiny little tabs he can barely see, and just push, like he was pushing a wrecked vehicle off the road- ? Really? This just doesn’t seem very well thought out at all. Brought to you by the same people that will hold your life in their hands when TSHTF, whether flood or other calamity. Remember, the whole of all society, the entire nation, is about nine meals from anarchy... and that’s for average people... remember Katrina? The looters didn’t wait that long.
Agreed on all points... events of the last couple years ought to show you all you need to know about how delicate the balance of society is, and how incompetent the people we rely upon are.
I would like to see during flood how that gate protect people's
Haha go check recent videos!! It held flood water from coming in other then a little running through the bottom.
You'd think those 2 vehicles down the road would want to get on this side of the barricade before the gate was closed. If the gate is needed those vehicles have no way of getting out.
So walls do work. Mmmm
Cairo, IL has had a flood wall as early as 1960, maybe longer. Wall is meant to control Ohio River flooding. Unfortunately, it empties into the Mississippi River, which to my knowledge cannot be tamed.
@3:50 This is the beginning of the toll road between the haves and have nots. Reminds me of the movie, "In Time."
It kind of brings back memories of Escape From LA .
Or..... locked up at Myrtle Beach.
In the video, I think I heard him that someone can walk over them. Did I hear him correctly? If so, how does someone walk over it.
Wtf. You can walk on the levees
What do you do whene all these workers ore equipment is not available due... THE STORM...?
And did somebody not tell the engineers about some form of automated systems for the closing and securing the doors?
They are mandated 24 hours during a storm.
In all his 34 years, the flood gates were installed after Katrina
I noticed that too. All my twenty-five year's living in New Orleans. Those were not there before Katrina. Lol
Lolll
Skid steer : "nope.. I'm not starting today"
Everyone else :" "
Such huge gates took very little effort to close, and locked into position by what appeared to be 1/2” bolts and wing nuts, are they aware of water pressure?
I'm just guessing (and hoping) there is another locking mechanism apart from that. Even if its sufficient enough, I would have a giant nut and bolt just in case!
did they work?
California needs these gates !
Yea on the border. Lol jk
Very Good...
Wow great reporting 4 dudes really earning that pay
Wouldn't these also hold water inside the area?
so did they really locked the skid truck on the wrong side of the gate ? how are they going to open then when it floods.
How will it stop hurricanes, tsunamis, or floods?
It's a gate. If the hurricane knock and nobody answer, it'll just leave
Nice piece of equipment.
Awesome!
You would think that someone can design a closing system that involves hydraulic rams and a bit of electricity , not a skid steer
Too expensive to use them every 10 years. And then you would have to maintain them too. Skid steer is much more reliable.
Y'all dedicated this amount of time to a gate
That's the most sophisticated closing mechanism I've ever seen. Better than a donkey. 😂
This means NOTHING, Mother Nature will WIN ALWAYS unless we ALL change our ways.
Tell that to the Dutch, they have been doing this for over 70 years.
It's not a little piece of equipment, it's a skidsteer it weighs more than an average car and its capable of tearing down an entire house.
Well, to be fair it is little compared to most heavy equipment... it would fit in the bucket of some excavators....
@Margaret Kpeh Perhaps, but right now it's New Holland c238
Wish they'd do this for all of Kalifornia.
better safe than sorry
Something coming brother stay safe
Special ED aaron .
cool we got it closed, "um, we are on the other side"
That guy on the very top does not have a body harnessed just in case he falls isn't that an OSHA approved job site
I'm 41 never new they had this NO native here.
And who is going to close the doors?
Dear all reporters: It's ok if you don't talk constantly to fill space. We don't mind watching interesting footage with no chatter, honest it's fine
Let's build a city below sea level, what could go wrong!
Ha! now they have walls under sea level jokes on you.
Strange to have to do this
LOL at all the people saying those on the wrong side of the wall were going to be stuck there. The video literally panned to the temporary elevated roadway that takes cars and pedestrians from one side to the other, over the levee next to the gates 7:40 . Including some people walking up and down it!
Wow
That should keep out the walking dead!
They'll never learn. Long ago the sections of New Orleans that are from five feet above sea level or lower should have been turned into canals in a Venice-like fashion.
where is water/ flood?
Close the flood Gates!!!!!!!!!
I hope it works today with Hurricane Ida!
Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord.
Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord.
Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord.
Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord.
Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord.
Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord.
Open your floodgates of Heaven, Lord.
TT
there were no floodgates due to the corrupt New Orleans Levee Board.
What about people behind the wall?
Damn a year already
That doesn't seem to be high enough. Does anyone feel the same? Not high enough. You are talking about mother nature. It almost feels like power of a matchstick.
Sophie Tyrrell
If he was 6'1" then it looked to be about 13-14'. That's not near tall enough.
Wow how exciting
Noone leaves
Why the hell does this remind me of the opening scene of "Jurassic Park"...?
So, if gates, are close. How, do you get home. Do you park car. Outside gates walk, home. That is wrong. It should be some way. In or Out. Are you sure, it water. Or something else. Like Prison.
why not just make a hill and have the road go over the hill instead of locking everyone in
These walls are for outside the levee protection. You can get in and out the city.
No one is locked in Sh!T Head.
Regrettably, you are clearly ineligible for a government job. Your reckless use of logic and planning are clear indicators of an unsuitable mind.
@@1klouisek 😂🤣. Andy England 🇬🇧👍
And this is the most efficient way to close the gates that the greatest minds of America can think of?
New gates?? Can you all pass those over to the borders? Those are better than a wall. 🤷
Right. Republican President gate close. Democratic president gate open
Why don’t they just have a ramp or a bridge over the top of the walls for vehicles and people?
Better safe than sorry !
Mother Nature.....undefeated
What happens when Truman tries to leave Seahaven.
if you have to close a wall to prevent flooding. maybe folks should try to move
Now _this_ is the type of wall that I support!
Once again, we have one of those reporters who uses the word “again” way too much.
This can't be cheaper than building a mound for the highway...
i wonder how many tons of water that gate can handle
i would expect that they did NOT need a skidsteer to close/open the door ...
I thought walls don't work?
Do this work on mexico
Hopefully it held up in hurricane Ida
Nicely engineered.
About time you learned something from the Dutch. We use these for decades! 🤣