What is going on in New Orleans?

[Osiris]

Now Tornadoes rip through the town when it's reparing, religion or not, something is going on there i think, just seems to be center of disaster, they need a break! Someone come up with some shield techonolgy and cover the dang city!!!!!!!!


http://articles.news.aol.com/news/ar...00010000000001

Ok so i may watch toooo much stargate.

[Torpedo]

i use to live in a suburb of New Orleans up until 2000. i guess its a good thing i left when i did!

[Fishfirst]

I believe this is only the beginning of bad natural disasters...

dare I say global warming... wait... I'll probably get a reply that there is no such thing.

[TheOldSalt]

Not from me, you won't.

I think that 2005 was really bad, but we ain't seen nuthin' yet. I predict 5 hurricane landfalls in Fl in 2006, with 3 of those storms hitting Cat-5 before hitting land.

I also think Seattle will win the Superbowl, 17-14. I had a dream about it nearly a YEAR ago, and lo, Seattle is sure enough in the Superbowl. If I'm right about that, all you floridians might want to RUN.

[Fishfirst]

glad I'm here in wisconsin... you all down south are goners!

[Georgia Peach]

I think we are going to see alot of natural disasters in the coming years and that the US will be affected by most.

[Osiris]

I agree, when i build a house, i've always largely debating about installing a super huge basement with a even deeper shelter cuz here we get literally hundreds of tornardo'es in a season, each one getting worse, last year was bad.

LMAO TOS, We'll see soon enough!!!!!
If he's right i will eat pop rocks and drink a pepsi!

[Cliffizme2]

I don't see how people can go back to New Orleans and rebuild knowing that something like Katrina can happen to them next year. They should know better than to live near an ocean on land that is under sea level. Thick levees or not, that is not a good setup.
The funniest thing about Katrina was when everyone started blaming it on Bush saying he is causing global warming. And then the finger was pointed at his lack of sending government assistance, these people should have evacuated, the warning was made but their local government was faulty and didn't prepare to react. I'm a firm believer that if you want help, you have to try to help yourself and not sit back and take handouts. We have pretty serious tornadoes here in Memphis and we keep our stuff ready for when we hear those sirens, we have gallons of water and radios with batteries, etc. If they told us evacuate a day before one came, we would.

Originally Posted by MalawianPro

If he's right i will eat pop rocks and drink a pepsi!

I saw that on Mythbusters and the guy ate a bunch of packets of it and drank a coke but nothing happened. I still don't want to try it though.

[Baby_Baby]

I think I'm ok here in okie. but ya know we got tornadoes too, but they usually hit Ok city before gettin to Tulsa. I never even heard about those tornadoes in New Orleans
and Old Salt I think I had that dream too =)

[leveldrummer]

ok, im gonna get yelled at, but here we go, first of all, new orleans, i think god (well my version of him/her) just wanted to wash that town out a little, and scatter the crap. (not racist like the tv says, N.O. is a center for terrible things, fun as they are) the pop rocks thing? impossible, thats why we burp, and burp out the other end. (you know what i mean) now then, for the real fight (are you ready??..... ready??) global warming is garbage, any evidence you might have towards it, usually begins with, "this is the hottest its ever been since 1673" or something like that, where was the polution back then? the earth has natural changes over many many years from warm to hot, as the axis tilts, and many other things i wont get into. the real trouble, is a magnetic revearsal of the poles, everything will go hay wire, the last one was billions of years ago, and they think another is comming (i think) around 2008... look it up, scary spit.

[Meeocky]

God's punishing Mayor Nagin for calling New Orleans "Chocolate City" haha j/k

it's a shame.

[fishfreaks]

That's a shame, I wonder why people still move back there after all of this

[leveldrummer]

i wonder why people sit there and look for a hand out, instead of moving or rebuilding, i dont think rebuilding is a great idea, but at least its better than government cheese. it jsut makes me mad that everyone was calling that whole fiasco rascist, like there werent white people, or asians, or mexicans, like the huricane only hit black peoples houses and thats because george W dont like black people?? thats genious

[Osiris]

Yea, i don't know, i was very unimpressed with the way they moved on that, look how fast they moved when the twin cities were bombed! This is more devastation then that IMO.


But keeping race out of this, I completely agree with FF on this, sea temperatures have been rising for how long? I can see "day after tomorrow" completely happening.

[AshleytheGreat]

I read that the oceans temp is rising 1 degree F per year. Im sure that will add up.

[Fishfirst]

not only that, but this has been the fastest increase in temperature since the beginning. You may not be feeling it the south, but seriously, up here, temps are in the 30's and 40's when they should be in the negative 10's. Also in the north, the ice caps are receeding enough to strand many sea ice living polar bears on land. Again, we don't really know if it is us that are causing this increase in temperature, but then again, it hasn't happened since the dinosaurs, when there was this much carbon in the atmosphere.

[Osiris]

Yes, completely agree FF weather here has been nuts, a thunderstorm in jan? and rain, that is a very rare thing here i dont ever remember there being one in jan. We should have lots of snow too and we dont.

Lightening storm back in dec. that was very very odd.

[leveldrummer]

yea weather is hay wire, but to blame "global warming" i think is crazy. not to sound like bob, but there is no evidence. there is evidence that the earth has always changed temperatures over time, and no one looks at other options, they just blame suv's or nintendo, anyone think that maybe the earths rotation around the sun is slowing due to friction? as it slows it would loose centripital force (spelling) and slowly get closer and closer to the sun. hot hot hot

[Osiris]

eh? we're going to hit the sun?

[leveldrummer]

who knows, but i dont think its deforestation or suv's. studies recently showed that if the earth was covered with more trees, the temperature would actually rise, so most eco nuts are way off.