How Long Does New Orleans Have Left?

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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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@TheGreatLordApples 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@pierrenavaille4748 Жыл бұрын

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

@elizabethclaiborne6461 2 күн бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@TMW_Photography 2 жыл бұрын

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

@e.paradigm7415 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Bobby007D Жыл бұрын

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

@emanueljoel7971 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@DeEnigeHertog 2 жыл бұрын

*laughs in dutch*

@chiarosuburekeni9325 2 жыл бұрын

@@DeEnigeHertog do they have to deal with hurricanes?

@DeEnigeHertog 2 жыл бұрын

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

@chiarosuburekeni9325 2 жыл бұрын

@@DeEnigeHertog 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

@DeEnigeHertog 2 жыл бұрын

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

@tiagomori2534 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@voteZDLR 2 жыл бұрын

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

@chazl9531 2 жыл бұрын

@@Meemeeseecoo Same with Chicago

@la7era1u54 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@ohigh6 2 жыл бұрын

How many are watching this after Ida?

@KB-ke3fi 2 жыл бұрын

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

@coahomajno6888 2 жыл бұрын

It’s very eerie watching this today

@Calilou52 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Calilou52 2 жыл бұрын

@Shoenheim because eeeeverythings a conspiracy right?

@dadestarmysteries255 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@ricenoodlegaming 3 жыл бұрын

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

@tonyfournier3298 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@blcouch 2 жыл бұрын

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

@rachaelhowey4106 2 жыл бұрын

isn't that America?

@indiecraze5227 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@SmartChannel01 11 ай бұрын

Florida too

@ivryrayborn5970 Жыл бұрын

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.

@cantsay8894 2 жыл бұрын

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

@khao4577 2 жыл бұрын

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

@tiko4621 2 жыл бұрын

The Netherlands has been doing it for the longest…

@khao4577 2 жыл бұрын

@@tiko4621 you mean the nether?

@4realjacob637 2 жыл бұрын

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

@KB-ke3fi 2 жыл бұрын

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

@pierrenavaille4748 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@LegalShield3000 3 жыл бұрын

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

@elibullockpapa9012 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@kaloianmitrev6279 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

Tell that to Arthur curry

@datking9184 2 жыл бұрын

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

@deandre2680 2 жыл бұрын

Same for Mexico city

@nickhill8612 2 жыл бұрын

And California is falling into the ocean.

@alex22153 2 жыл бұрын

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

@andrewnunnes 2 жыл бұрын

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

@alex22153 2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@AdviceDuck 2 жыл бұрын

Ida just came through and wrecked our shid

@downsouth822 2 жыл бұрын

& 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 2 жыл бұрын

Watching this while currently living in New Orleans: Eep.

@Meemeeseecoo 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

You guys got your power on yet?

@BeefHamMan 2 жыл бұрын

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

@coreysayles2002 2 жыл бұрын

Doing the same

@ahmadpickett 2 жыл бұрын

Right after Ida

@Victor-tl4dk Жыл бұрын

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

@alexcostelloe4204 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@chiarosuburekeni9325 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@DavidVillaTorre 2 жыл бұрын

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

@KB-ke3fi 2 жыл бұрын

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

@r.a.6459 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Meemeeseecoo 2 жыл бұрын

This comment is pretty ignorant / mis-informed.

@craigweaver8542 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Madskillsuniversity Жыл бұрын

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

@TMW_Photography Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@ChristChickAutistic 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@johngordonwyland 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Johnn_Vasquez 2 жыл бұрын

Houston got very lucky.

@candyjjames9040 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Johnn_Vasquez 2 жыл бұрын

@@candyjjames9040 we weren’t lucky in 2017 😓

@KB-ke3fi 2 жыл бұрын

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

@haroldpurcell4656 2 жыл бұрын

@@candyjjames9040 what about harvey

@agentpr24 3 жыл бұрын

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

@TMW_Photography 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@FlowerItzel18 Жыл бұрын

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

@tikilanichols8023 Жыл бұрын

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

@e92mattt Жыл бұрын

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

@bangzoom22 Жыл бұрын

I’ve heard it’s a dirty city

@javiermoretti1825 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@JPerez-zm4kr 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Super informative

@TMW_Photography 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you found it informative

@deluxeh0 2 жыл бұрын

Home prices in Nola have dropped after this video

@NEWNATURE777 2 жыл бұрын

Great contents! You should have more subscribers 👍

@Chai_biscuits77 2 жыл бұрын

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

@forcedair92gt94 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Deeplycloseted435 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@smartmarketing173 Жыл бұрын

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?

@arfythefoxmovedchannels1926 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Sxwayz15 3 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@@Sxwayz15 very wise advice.

@Sxwayz15 2 жыл бұрын

@@brycenurding8133 thank you.

@Hold_Fast_Clanmcleod Жыл бұрын

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

@williamdennis3574 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Meemeeseecoo 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Thank God for Texas

@dinosaurus598 2 жыл бұрын

NOLA has about 20-30 years left.

@lamarsmith5971 2 жыл бұрын

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

@h.b.3557 2 жыл бұрын

Guess we're about to find out

@alexwood5425 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@gilbertcavazos6541 2 жыл бұрын

Too much infrastructure issues just to keep a city going wow

@Meemeeseecoo 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Neppy1414 2 жыл бұрын

But it’s an extraordinary city🥰🥰🥰🥰

@trae701 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting sense of humor KZfaq

@tylerspeier3161 2 жыл бұрын

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

@DylanMcMullen 2 жыл бұрын

Ikr? At least i got power back

@TurtleFootMining 2 жыл бұрын

This aged well didn’t it?

@lil_zadeh6064 2 жыл бұрын

What happened?

@lordflako5324 2 жыл бұрын

Wdym?

@jaredlewis8689 2 жыл бұрын

Harvey was a 100 year storm for reference

@candyjjames9040 2 жыл бұрын

Harvey was houston storm 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽

@KB-ke3fi 2 жыл бұрын

@@candyjjames9040 We know that, Forrest.

@denisewilliams9987 2 жыл бұрын

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

@deandre2680 2 жыл бұрын

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

@KB-ke3fi 2 жыл бұрын

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

@theodoremonroe6440 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative

@sagemulkey9890 3 жыл бұрын

Great video.

@TMW_Photography 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@MrHistory269 3 жыл бұрын

The Dutch *Amateurs* But good video 👍

@TMW_Photography 3 жыл бұрын

I like it

@inyobill 2 жыл бұрын

Not directly comparable environments.

@r.a.6459 2 жыл бұрын

You cannot compare New Orleans and Amsterdam. Different mindsets.

@MrCubFan415 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like New Orleans could learn a lesson from the Netherlands

@dwjoseph59 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@faithsfabulousbeautybar6756 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@booksteer7057 3 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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!)

@la7era1u54 2 жыл бұрын

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

@kevinnapier8996 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@RandomLBS 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@SuperKrisnelson800 2 жыл бұрын

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

@niceguy2832 3 жыл бұрын

I guess we will all die in/with new Orleans, it's sad that people still say that climate change isn't a thing

@MrPanther67100 3 жыл бұрын

RadTheLad like the people who fly around in private jets like Al gore, who narrated a movie on climate change

@MrPanther67100 3 жыл бұрын

RadTheLad I agree

@Yo_rese_ 2 жыл бұрын

Ida going to kill us now

@jeffm2787 2 жыл бұрын

Climate change, what climate change, surely your mistaken. Ohh you mean the thing the Sun is causing... 🙄😆😐 Guess I better go read my translation of some ancient writing so I can find some parallels and blame it on that. See look, the 'book' says so right here. Ohh wait, self fulfilling prophecy you say. Why would we be so foolish as do do something like that. Don't expect anything to change, too many people want this 'change' to happen for greed, religion, politics, etc.etc. I just keep waiting for all of my neighbors to step up and do something and then maybe I'll join them 😆

@NwoFresh 2 жыл бұрын

Is not

@richardgalli7262 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@Shoenheim nice hairline

@nickhill8612 2 жыл бұрын

@Shoenheim Haha haha that's funny

@nickhill8612 2 жыл бұрын

@@usawrestling8835 To funny

@georgek8182 2 жыл бұрын

'the polar caps are intact' lol

@stewartgames6697 2 жыл бұрын

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

@keefmeister77 Жыл бұрын

"...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.

@bevleighlange3312 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@brandywine1548 2 жыл бұрын

There you have it you warning move away from sea

@eustatic3832 Жыл бұрын

This isn't just New Orleans, this is how the USA has built its oil refineries, in swamps. And now, it's seeking to build Methane Gas refineries and export terminals for Europe in much lower places than New Orleans.

@tbori180 3 жыл бұрын

They’re bout to get hit again 😔 🙏🏾

@TMW_Photography 3 жыл бұрын

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

@johnedmonds674 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@LouisianaCreole 3 жыл бұрын

New Orleans was completely untouched by hurricanes in 2020

@deaconrich6317 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@joshuagould548 Жыл бұрын

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.

@norml.hugh-mann 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ahmadpickett 2 жыл бұрын

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

@altairkennedy9627 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jorgeher3233 2 жыл бұрын

No worries. Life goes on!

@Yora21 2 жыл бұрын

Though better somewhere else.

@Sam-vo1lf 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they should explore green alternatives like floodplain restoration

@amibeingdetained3417 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@forcemajeur.5138 2 жыл бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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

@roxannehudson7410 9 ай бұрын

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

@forcemajeur.5138 9 ай бұрын

@@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.

@jim2376 9 ай бұрын

Bienville had to wait for floodwaters to recede before he could plant the French flag at the site that would become New Orleans. The city flooded the very first year of its existence. A small levy was built. It flooded the next year. Nature to New Orleans: "Why are you here?"

@tedsmith6137 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jameswillard1 2 жыл бұрын

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 😳

@SpeedyCorky 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@spaniardprince 3 жыл бұрын

Subbed

@TMW_Photography 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@bee6384 Жыл бұрын

I'm a new orleans native so i say this with love it's time to let this place drown already...

@thehorrorartist9317 Жыл бұрын

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

@scotsasnett 2 жыл бұрын

The city will be fine.

@jamesjoslin7586 2 жыл бұрын

Right.

@Meemeeseecoo 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jusgie 2 жыл бұрын

Im a nola native smh.

@calengr1 2 жыл бұрын

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

@JamesJones-cx5pk Жыл бұрын

Those 100 year old pumps don't instill confidence.

@linniem5982 5 ай бұрын

The biggest problem they have in New Orleans is No Jobs. They have some hotels, restaurants and tourism, but no business going on. Jobs are low paying 😮😂😅😅😊

@standingbear998 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ddeeddee1380 2 жыл бұрын

They been saying that since I was born

@cognitivepawn 2 жыл бұрын

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

@linniem5982 5 ай бұрын

They keep working on solutions here. ❤😊😊

@neilreinecke3243 11 ай бұрын

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.

@KingSpaceySprockets 3 жыл бұрын

*enters the Jetsons

@SuperKrisnelson800 2 жыл бұрын

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

@stellathefoxgirl3648 2 жыл бұрын

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

@nathaneverson9949 2 жыл бұрын

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

@donaldgibbons2616 2 жыл бұрын

Never did exactly say when

@TMW_Photography 2 жыл бұрын

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

@WildWestPros 2 жыл бұрын

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

@benjaminingram4857 2 жыл бұрын

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

@rustyshakelford1279 Жыл бұрын

So basically N.O. Is fucked. Got it.

@morpheus6394 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for using metric

@bangzoom22 Жыл бұрын

Building a city below sea level is not a smart idea

@medicinaemdia4895 2 жыл бұрын

Let’s not forget that Louisiana has a Republican governor, meaning he can’t “understand” global warming

@brettp.563 2 жыл бұрын

He’s a liberal democrat but good try.

@stephenfletcher1579 2 жыл бұрын

Correction! La. has a democrat gov. , and NOLA has a democrat mayor. The gov. seems to be popular,as for the mayor, typical leftwing socialist like the rest.

@medicinaemdia4895 2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenfletcher1579 actually Louisiana has a Democratic Governor and a Republican lieutenant governor, and is still a very red state !!!

@stephenfletcher1579 2 жыл бұрын

@@medicinaemdia4895 Good for you,count your blessings 👍

@Mobelight369 2 жыл бұрын

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

@angelus_solus 2 жыл бұрын

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

@coreysayles2002 2 жыл бұрын

I'm born and raised still living in nola

@dylanturner3216 2 жыл бұрын

Our fair city, the seat of American culture, is valuable and worth every penny of infrastructure. We supply the middle of the country with food and fuel. There are risks everywhere, read up on the New Madrid fault. If Holland can be vastly further under sea level and design tech to keep dry than why can’t we? We will eventually go under, yes but we do not have to go under without a fight and a long, long life for the city that care forgot.