You know, this might be a good time for those of us who aren't prepared to start thinking about having basic supplies in case something like this happens in Seattle.

I'm not being paranoid, but I know that my survival supplies amount to nothing. I'm gonna get some stuff I think. That way I don't have to loot the qfc.

Hmm build levees that stop sediment from being deposited, build city, city settles below sea level, build dikes to keep sea water out up to a Cat 3 hurricane. Cat 4 comes through....

no doubt. wtf were they thinking? "let's build a city below sea level! what could go wrong with THIS brilliant scheme????"

http://slate.msn.com/id/2125346/nav/tap2/



"If it's not too callous to say so while the tragedy on the Gulf Coast is still unfolding, the stadium mishap is an apt metaphor for New Orleans' environmental history. The sodden city has long placed itself in harm's way, relying on uncertain artifice to protect it from unpredictable environs.

New Orleans is utterly dependent for its survival on engineered landscapes and the willful suspension of disbelief that technology has allowed its citizens to sustain. As most people know by now, much of New Orleans lies well below sea level and also beneath the Mississippi River, which flows high above the city it helped create. If you visit New Orleans you can't actually see the river unless you're willing to climb its steep banks, mini-mountains that jut above the Mississippi's endlessly flat delta. From the relatively high ground of the French Quarter, you might catch a glimpse of a huge container ship, seemingly levitating above the roofline of most houses. New Orleans is, in other words, a shallow bowl surrounded by a ridge of levees, which are supposed to keep out water from the Mississippi and from Lake Pontchartrain at the city's rear—and this week didn't. When the levees fail, as they have many times before, a flood occupies the recessed terrain in the city's center. Like the people trapped in the football stadium, water has no natural way to leave New Orleans. It must constantly be pumped over the lip of the bowl formed by the levees.
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I think when the tsunami hit's we should all comandeer Jake and Matt's apartment. C'mon...high ground, a building full of scared hot chicks? What could be better?

I think when the tsunami hit's we should all comandeer Jake and Matt's apartment. C'mon...high ground, a building full of scared hot chicks? What could be better?

Agreed, but he's probably prepared.


"We're on the 10th and 11th floor of a corporate high rise on Poydras Ave., right near St. Charles. We have generators and tons of food and water. It is 5 of us total. I am not sure how the internet connection will be affected. I have a camera and my gun."

yeah, they hired him to be their 'crisis contingency manager'. he's doing alright thus far i'd say.

also, what's up with all this tsunami talk? i'm no seismologist but the predictions for a moderate tsunami in puget sound are that it would be about 3-4m, everything on lakes union and washington are 6-8m above sea level. we'd be fine.

the waterfront would be fucked though, alki, and harbor island.

I beleive a 4m tsunami means that the swell is 4M high as it hits land. think "fast moving 12 foot wall of water". The water would have sufficent momentium to travel uphill a fair bit.

You're all welcome to hang out at my house on Puget Ridge (easily 100' higher than Aaron's). BYOHC.

that, or i also fear a canadian invasion. scotty and matt are a fifth column, ready to start setting up IED's and sniping people at a moment's notice.