After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking

Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by CPLX on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:06PM (#19696491)

People rebuild all sorts of stuff all the time. Look around your average city or drive around and tell me how old all the buildings are. You’ll notice most of them are less than 20-40 years old. And the ones that aren’t have almost certainly been essentially rebuilt recently in practice.

We knock stuff down and change or rebuild it all the time, there’s no such thing as permanent against the weather. Or just changing tastes and technology, I mean indoor plumbing is less than 100 years old. Shit changes.

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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by jefftk on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:44PM (#19696678)

> indoor plumbing is less than 100 years old

Huh? The house I grew up in was built in 1895 and had plumbing from the start.

It looks like rich people started getting indoor plumbing in the early 1800s (the White House got it in 1833) and it was widespread in new construction by the end of the century.

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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by CPLX on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:59PM (#19696760)

I mean it existed before that of course. But it wasn’t widespread until the 1930s.

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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by Gibbon1 on Thursday April 18, 2019 @11:41PM (#19696925)

Cities had indoor plumbing, electricity, and teliphones fairly early.

Isolated rural houses often much later.

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