Anyone else think that this is perfect for a zombie apocalypse defense...

Thanks to The Netherlands for the help in constructing the flood gate !!!

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 ….

The day they finish building the gate. “ wow it really looks great.... how do we close it?”

W: “Honey, go get me some milk” H: “ Sure, my love , I’ll be right back” Gates closing in progress...

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.

guy talking "this little peice of equipment" me "I TS CALLED A SKID STEER

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?

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

Fascinating to watch. Wonderful job.

People can't seem to contemplate there being more than one road and some being high enough not to require gating

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.

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.

Good live shot! Unique and interesting.

Good target for drivers on their cell phone. "That gate came out of nowhere and hit my car!"

I like how fast it goes in place

The Medieval walled city of New Orleans!

Something is not right with this picture 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Cooool ~~> Always wanted to see this.

If you go Chef Highway to Irish Bayou, you can get to I-10 still.

Wow that's awesome 😊😊😊 trying to stop 🛑 the water

Very Good...

Wow great reporting 4 dudes really earning that pay

Too bad that wasn't there for hurricane Katrina.

What came first? The skid steer or the flood gate?

Awesome!

Which side would the water be coming from? ... I mean there are trucks and people on both sides.

Ok, now this is concerning to me!

I had no clue this existed.

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.

@3:50 This is the beginning of the toll road between the haves and have nots. Reminds me of the movie, "In Time."

Nice piece of equipment.

I would like to see during flood how that gate protect people's

This is the starting scene(s) of "The Dead Don't Die."

So walls do work. Mmmm

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

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?

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.

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.

California needs these gates !

So if the bobcat is broken how will the gate be shut?

Wow how exciting

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

In all his 34 years, the flood gates were installed after Katrina

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?

It kind of brings back memories of Escape From LA .

How will it stop hurricanes, tsunamis, or floods?

You would think that someone can design a closing system that involves hydraulic rams and a bit of electricity , not a skid steer

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.

Skid steer : "nope.. I'm not starting today" Everyone else :" "

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.

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.

Wouldn't these also hold water inside the area?

did they work?

Wish they'd do this for all of Kalifornia.

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

That's the most sophisticated closing mechanism I've ever seen. Better than a donkey. 😂

Y'all dedicated this amount of time to a gate

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!

This means NOTHING, Mother Nature will WIN ALWAYS unless we ALL change our ways.

Let's build a city below sea level, what could go wrong!

cool we got it closed, "um, we are on the other side"

Strange to have to do this

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

Close the flood Gates!!!!!!!!!

better safe than sorry

Noone leaves

I'm 41 never new they had this NO native here.

Wow

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

Mother Nature.....undefeated

Damn a year already

And who is going to close the doors?

What about people behind the wall?

where is water/ flood?

why not just make a hill and have the road go over the hill instead of locking everyone in

That should keep out the walking dead!

i wonder how many tons of water that gate can handle

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.

Nicely engineered.

Why the hell does this remind me of the opening scene of "Jurassic Park"...?

i would expect that they did NOT need a skidsteer to close/open the door ...

Why don’t they just have a ramp or a bridge over the top of the walls for vehicles and people?

I hope it works today with Hurricane Ida!

Better safe than sorry !

Now _this_ is the type of wall that I support!

New gates?? Can you all pass those over to the borders? Those are better than a wall. 🤷

What happens when Truman tries to leave Seahaven.

Once again, we have one of those reporters who uses the word “again” way too much.

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.

if you have to close a wall to prevent flooding. maybe folks should try to move

No traffic management. Cars all backing up.

And this is the most efficient way to close the gates that the greatest minds of America can think of?

Why isn't this a little hill? That would make it permanently closed off and cars can just drive over.

The stop signs will stop the water

Do this work on mexico

Hopefully it held up in hurricane Ida