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Bucknola - Get To Higher Ground!

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I appreciate your thoughts!

I believe I am a whole 48 feet above sea level. When they dug my pool the ground was a hard, nasty mix of red and grey clays. I am north of NOLA but we hear and read about this type of thing all the time. Coastal erosion, sinking, salt water intrusion and waiting for the big one, hurricane, all will leave the big easy a big mess someday. People in the NOLA area routinely get truck loads of sand dumped in their yard to fight the sinking.

It is interesting to see a home built there. They drive pilings, which are actually thinner telephone poles, into the ground first just to give the foundation some stability. They do not have basements here, those would quickly be indoor pools.

It has already been hotter than hell here and hurricane season started last week.

Lessez le bob ton roulle.
 
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He's just feeling insecure b/c many of us Michiganders just got our worlds rocked by tornadoes and serious t-storm after t-storm. I can't remember where he's from exactly, but SW MI turned into kansas yesterday.
 
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Nola - That's good to hear, I guess. I was already to send you a dog in preparation for filling up the ark I am sure you are planning to build.

JW - My neck of the woods was nice and quiet. Rain and some winds for less than an hour. I talked to someone who lives not two miles from me and he had rain for less than 15 minutes. Go figure.
 
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Tornados, mudslides, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, something is going to get you. One of my customers lost several salesman riding snow mobiles to an avalanche a few years ago.

I am sure I have posted this before but I went to school with a guy whose job was revenue protection for the local utility company. They did storm studies all the time. If a category 4 or 5 hurricane makes it directly into Lake Ponchatrain everything south of I-12 will be heavily flooded, that would include me! He mentioned something about a 10-12 foot wall of water. If it is a slow moving storm the levies would fail and so would the pumps used to pump the water out of New Orleans. New Orleans could be a big toxic dump, uninhabitable for months.

I have been here since the early 90's and we have been lucky. I have a bad feeling about this year. That could be due to the fact that the inlaws are moving over here to get away from NOLA.:(

Fast or slow this place will eventually end up under water.
 
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