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

Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by nickthemagicman on Friday April 19, 2019 @02:15AM (#19697452)

What you're missing is the Nola has the highest port tonnage in the country. The impact on GDP is estimated in the hundreds of billions. There's also billions and billions of dollars of infrastructure here.

Most goods that pass through to the midwest and rest of the country come through here.

Without Nola, hundreds of billions of dollars of the economy will go away. Gas prices set a record after Katrina.

14 billion is a bargain to keep this city going.

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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by Youden on Friday April 19, 2019 @03:43AM (#19697782)

For anyone else who might be confused like I was, "Nola" seems to be a nickname for New Orleans, derived from "New Orleans, Louisiana" -> "New Orleans, LA" -> "NOLA" -> "Nola".

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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by kobayashy on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:47AM (#19698716)

What if we just keep the port and relocate the rest of the city? It's not that you need hundreds of thousands people to run port facility. Damn, if you even need 500.

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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by nickthemagicman on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:27AM (#19699402)

There's also one of, if not the, largest petrochemical manufacturing corridors as well. Tens to hundreds of billions of dollars of GDP.

How about you guys just pay the money so you can keep your gas prices low, GDP up, and imported goods flowing to your house?

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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by kobayashy on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:54AM (#19699617)

That's sounds like something that can be easily relocated to Texas.

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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by selimthegrim on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:57AM (#19699631)

To noted non-flooding at all cities Houston and Galveston?

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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by nickthemagicman on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:20AM (#19699820)

Yeah but it's not there? Why not relocate Wall Street to Cleveland? Or Silicon Valley to Pittsburg?

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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by nickthemagicman on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:19AM (#19699810)

'easily'

Why not just relocate silicon valley to Pittsburgh where rents are cheaper?

Problem solved!

So much plain and simple arrogance and ignorance in this thread. Mind blowing.

14 bil year is a bargain for what this city provides.

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