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Environment & Energy

lapfog_1

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1. It won't even take a major hurricane

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 06:26 AM

Aug 30

the amount of water carried by the atmosphere is enough that a stalled out tropical depression over New Orleans will fill the city like a bathtub. The pumps will not keep up.

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20 Years After Katrina, New Levees Sinking, Oceans Rising And Corps/FEMA Funding Already Being Eliminated [View all] hatrack Aug 30 OP

It won't even take a major hurricane lapfog_1 Aug 30 #1

Oh well. FAFO we can do it Aug 30 #2