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#22 ·
Survivalguy72 said:
That would be a great place to film a movie.
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They have..


Angry Cow said:
The low lying areas of NOLA will never be inhabited again, so why not remove the levees (instead of rebuilding them) and turn it into what God meant it to be, a swamp? Build a levee around the French Quarter, and turn the rest into swampland. That would also protect the parts of the city in the west side that didn't flood.
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What do you consider to be lowlying areas on N.O.????? Build a levee around the Qrr??? LOL!!! How about the miles and miles already built to protect the area??? The ones the Army Corps of engineers ADMITTED to building SUBSTANDARD!!!! Geez, I can't even begin to tell you how far you are off the mark w/ geography, the facts, etc.. Where do you live again???

Category5 said:
That particular area of NO was a dumb place to build a theme park before Katrina. Now it is a wasteland.
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No different than Disney, draining wetlands to build amusement parks,S. Cali building on reclaimed trash sites or anyone else right now living in a desert, fault lines, any place named "tornado alley" mountainsides where it floods/ storms/burns, the hundreds of thousands of folks that live along rain swollen rivers right now or in the middle of the woods where fires are raging.:taped:

agonies creep said:
I remember when I was a teen ager (early 80's) when someone told me New Orleans was below sea level I thought they were pulling my leg. I just couldn't believe anyone would be that stupid.
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Blame the French in the 1600s:xeye:
They did it for the shipping, the trading, to protect the MISS. and interior of this country so it wasn't invaded. Where do you live exactly? Also is there property available there since apparently I would not even need to have insurance.

What some of you people keep missing is that this destruction doesn't happen every other year. It has never happened before in most cases. You forget the coasts of Texas, MS, 'Bama, FLA, and up the friggin' seaboard. I can't wait for y'all to see what a Cat. 2 will do to DC and N.Y.

I would post all the images of the levee structure, flood walls, etc. , but you already made up your minds and know it ALL.:mad:
 
#23 ·
I got to party for two days in Subic Bay Philippines before my merry go round of the southern islands. Was completely blown away how bad that city went to crap after the US navy base left. Brand new military bases overgrown by jungle, half made buildings, titty bars with no more neon... It totally was life after humans. It might have changed since then if we're more active there now but urban explorers really need to find this place.
 
#24 ·
Angry Cow said:
I am a ghost town buff, and watched the video in hopes that they'd have more photos of Soul City, only to be disappointed. I have found the same problem with the ghost town of Salton City, California, which was built as a speculative boom community during the 1950s housing bubble-few photos. I sometimes wonder if these "new ghost towns" hit too close to home for Americans for them to be greatly documented in the same way that Goldfield, Nevada (1904-19) is, for example. When the gypsum mining town of Empire, Nevada (1922-2010) was abandoned, an MSNBC story took photos of practically everything BUT the town.

Soul City is not on my 2010 Rand McNally atlas page of NC, but its likely location-in a remote area near the town of Macon-is not conducive to being a viable community. The wiki page says that money meant to go to the building of Soul City was "misappropriated", ie stolen, which is likely why the place never got off the ground, that and the remote setting.

The industrial building that became a prison is telling-states generally locate prisons in remote areas with few residents, so that escapees may be easily captured, and to limit the damage they can do if they do get out. Also, such areas usually have few objections to a prison. If urbanization takes hold of an area somehow, the preferred response is to move the prison, which is what Nevada did with the Silver Springs Women's Facility when "ranchettes" started lapping at its borders.
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You can see ariel photos from Google earth and if you do some more looking there are some pictures of the inside hidden on the net :thumb: I use to have them bookmarked but puter Hard drive bit the dust and they are no more :(
 
#25 ·
PSYOP Soldier said:
NOLA is a dumb place to build a city, period....Oh well....
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The modern parts of NOLA was a dumb place to build a city. The original parts built by the founding fathers of the city were build on the high ground. The French Quarter was spared from all the flooding.

The bigger the city got, the more countermeasures that had to be put in place to protect it.
 
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HomerB said:
The modern parts of NOLA was a dumb place to build a city. The original parts built by the founding fathers of the city were build on the high ground. The French Quarter was spared from all the flooding.

The bigger the city got, the more countermeasures that had to be put in place to protect it.
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Yeah, same thing happened in Sacramento too....It's current spot was not the original spot....Old Sac is actually built on top of the original city, had to be raised due to the flooding....They built it at the intersection of two major river, The Sacramento and American...

As punk kid, we used head down there and prowl the underground...

I would bet that this amusement park would turn into some thug infested free fire zone/base should/when shtf.....

Kinda like Cabrini Green back in the day when cops wouldn't even go there and medics got shot at......

As several posted, it would make a great MOUT site.....
 
#27 ·
PSYOP Soldier said:
Yeah, same thing happened in Sacramento too....It's current spot was not the original spot....Old Sac is actually built on top of the original city, had to be raised due to the flooding....They built it at the intersection of two major river, The Sacramento and American...

As punk kid, we used head down there and prowl the underground...

I would bet that this amusement park would turn into some thug infested free fire zone/base should/when shtf.....

Kinda like Cabrini Green back in the day when cops wouldn't even go there and medics got shot at......

As several posted, it would make a great MOUT site.....
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I grew up in Roseville, and Sacramento's "underground" was legend. They now give actual tours, such is the interest. The waterfront was raised some 12 feet. John Sutter Jr. tried to interest people in building a city instead at Sutterville, south of the current downtown, on a natural bluff, but nobody was interested. Once Sacramento was laid out it just sort of grew naturally. I'm sure you remember the story about the flood of 1862, and how Leland Stanford had to climb out his first floor window of his mansion and take a boat to his inauguration, and by the time he got back home he had to climb in the SECOND story window. After that they raised the city with huge jackscrews.
 
#29 ·
agonies creep said:
I remember when I was a teen ager (early 80's) when someone told me New Orleans was below sea level I thought they were pulling my leg. I just couldn't believe anyone would be that stupid.
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Probably not any more stupid than the big Western cities built in the middle of the desert......or the Midwestern cities built on flood plains.

Never underestimate the endless capacity of the human brain for stupidity.
 
#30 ·
This begs the ethical question....

I see a lot of free resources.

Some purists would argue that it's not yours. Don't touch it.

In a SHTF, I want glass, glass, and more glass. I am thinking old sliding glass doors would be great for greenhouses or solar can air heaters. I want tubs. I am looking at raising fish in containers. I want plumbing.

Between the three, you have the main components to make aquaculture.

Your situation will dictate the risk. I'm in Texas which is only recession like. Nowhere near as bad as many other states. Were I in Nevada or some other really bad off state. I might be out there scavenging like no other scavenger. Maybe I am moralizing it. But if left, the stuff will just get vandalized and thrashed.

Better feeding me than rotting away.


Sierra Dave
 
#38 ·
scrap

As far as the abandoned amusement park being torn down for scrap,from what i read the city of NO now owns it and i dought the citizens are complaining much about it and theirs no one looking to build in its spot. So for someone to tear it down for scrap while their is plenty of money in scrap no one yet has offered a big enough kick back to the city officials to get the job. And allmost all government contracts of large scale have a kick back clause thats why someone will spend millions of dollars to get a job that only pays a little over 100k a year.
 
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