New Orleans - "Point of no return"

[wtg]

New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis

[Daniel]

Well, it's already flooded once. Katrina wasn't because of the storm. Everything was fine the next morning. Until it wasn't. So, it will flood again? This time they won't be able to save it? People didn't relocate to higher ground since that city was founded by the French. They aren't going to start now.

[ShiroKuro]

from the article:

Southern Louisiana is facing 3-7 metres of sea-level rise and the loss of three-quarters of its remaining coastal wetlands, which will cause the shoreline “to migrate as much as 100km (62 miles) inland”

Wow, that's terrible! And terrifying!

[Daniel]

That's a nice picture of the city after the levees were, um, taken out by the storm, um, no, um, well, whatever happened to them.

I had moved about a year before this happened.

I left because of the crime. It had the #1 homicide rate.

Avoiding the flood was a random bonus.

[CHAS]

7 meters in feet and inches=22.9659
I drove south from New Orleans to a spot where I could see the Gulf in 1968. That land was about 5/8 inches above the gulf then.
That may affect land far up the river.

[Daniel]

It's all messed up but a lot of the problems with are manmade.

As to New Orleans, of course, it's the terminus port city of the Mississippi River.

People aren't going to abandon it. It's just not going to happen it.

[Mik]

Still, for the time being it's a fascinating city. We're going back for a week in November. If you want to know the city and its subcultures better, read this:

[Daniel]

It's an intense place! I didn't like living there but I was 26 by that time. I think I could have appreciated more if I had been younger or older.