Bidness as usual...

[Funkmasterr]

Except that no.

First of all, calling one of your countries most culturally important cities a shithole just continues to further highlight what a seething foaming at the mouth fucktard you actually are.

Secondly, you're hard on for pouring billions and billions of dollars into the bottomless unwinnable pit of war yet crying like a fucking bitch when it involves suggesting you help people in your own country recover from a massive tragedy deserves to be highlighted for its fucking insane degree of stupidity and lack of relativity.

If that is the case, then that part of the state should be marked uninhabitable and no one should live there. By no means should anyone else be paying for them to live there, absolutely no argument in the world could possibly make me change my mind on this.

Hey why stop there?! Why not just ban people from living in semi dangerous spots all over America? Get hit by a random tsunami because you lived by the sea? Lol fuck you! San Francisco destroyed by Earthquake? LOL owned! Yellowstone erupts? You knew the dangers!

You'd think you'd have even a little bit of compassion for your fellow countrymen that got so severely dicked by the event and their government's subsequent lack of response but obviously you're embarrasingly desperate longing to be considered some sort of two bit Machiavellian hardnut is more important.


P.s - Shut the fuck up

None of those other things you listed are a 100% for sure thing like NO is, They happen and maybe a small handful of people die, a few buildings get busted up and are re built within a few months. They don't wipe out an entire large city with the promise of happening again, and probably not too far down the road.

[Deward]

Just for the record I am totally against the Iraq war and the waste of money that is going on their. Just a tiny percentage of the waste there would allow us to build new schools in every state and provide healthcare to every child in America. Instead the politicians want to build bridges to no where and tropical jungles in Iowa.

As for crime rates, I lived in Milwaukee for three years. I left because the crime rate was bad. My wife couldn't go for a walk in broad daylight without being harassed. They would follow her around in Walmart. Point is people have a choice where they want to live. If you live somewhere prone to natural and unnatural disasters then you should not expect the government to bail your ass out when something does happen.

I never realized that there was no flood insurance in New Orleans. In that case, I think the government should provide flood insurance. If you don't buy it and lose everything then your SOL.

As far as history, NO does have some nice historical areas and if the price is right then lets preserve those but we don't need to be throwing billions into rebuilding the ghettos down there.

[Boogahz]

In that case, I think the government should provide flood insurance. If you don't buy it and lose everything then your SOL.

That's basically how Flood Insurance works now.

[Boogahz]

you know you can't buy flood insurance in that part of louisiana, right?

ORLY? Someone should tell the area agents to stop setting up flood policies!

Most of the area sits outside the "high-risk" flood districts designated on federal maps used for insurance, and so, unlike homeowners elsewhere in this low-lying city, most in the Lower Ninth Ward were not legally required by lenders to buy flood coverage.

...

"Flood insurance is a very tough sell -- and very few homeowners seek out flood insurance if it's not required," said Cheryl Small, president of the National Flood Determination Association, a group that represents companies that work with the flood maps.

Most of New Orleans is considered a "special flood hazard area." But most of the Lower Ninth Ward, which is a few feet higher, is not.

"I had flood insurance, but they said I didn't have to," said Jessie Philson, an area homeowner who recently returned for a visit. To save money after retiring, she said, "we dropped it."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 209_2.html

[Nick]

Oh.....I get it now....thes rest of the world is obligated to pay you and make everything all better every time something bad happens. I have not seen the government step in to give me my money back when I have had my shit stolen.

You're just wilfully being a dick here, but then again that's nothing new.

Comparing a vast destroyed city full of millions of financially impoverished people to that gunrack that got stolen off you the last time you went hunting for dem der terrsts is not a very compelling argument.

[Arborealus]

None of those other things you listed are a 100% for sure thing like NO is, They happen and maybe a small handful of people die, a few buildings get busted up and are re built within a few months. They don't wipe out an entire large city with the promise of happening again, and probably not too far down the road.

All of the things he listed are 100% probable given sufficient time. Add Mt Ranier destroys Seattle. Memphis destroyed by New Madrid Earthquake. etc etc...Houston, Miami, Tampa...F5 Tornados Hitting DFW, OKC, St Louis, KC...Manhattan is likely to flood completely within 100 years given the current rate of ice cap melt. For pretty much every major population center there is a probable destroying Natural disaster.

The odds of a Cat 5 hitting New Orleans again are very low, like incalculably small. Just because you have seen it once does not change the probability of an occurence.

[Traz-KOE]

The San Andreas is a strike-slip falt. The western side isn't going anywhere but up to chill with Alaska.

That is all.

[Arborealus]

The San Andreas is a strike-slip falt. The western side isn't going anywhere but up to chill with Alaska.

That is all.

Yeah but getting there releases a lot of energy along the way...

The real danger in that area is the Hayward Fault...Bilateral rupture of 7+ on the Hayward fault would just straight fuck the entire bay area over...And the abundant alluvial soils in the area will greatly exacerbate the damage...

Here is a model of a 7.1 Bilateral Rupture on Hayward from Lawrence Livermore's pretty little Crays...

http://www.llnl.gov/hmc/Larsen/Hayward/hfbib.mpg

The simulations last 90 seconds in real-time. Color key: Green (positive S potential); Greenish Blue (negative S potential); Red (positive P potential); Redish Blue (negative P potential). Other colors (e.g., white, yellow) represent areas where the S and P potentials overlap. The color intensity indicates the amplitude of the ground motion.The simulations last 90 seconds in real-time. Color key: Green (positive S potential); Greenish Blue (negative S potential); Red (positive P potential); Redish Blue (negative P potential). Other colors (e.g., white, yellow) represent areas where the S and P potentials overlap. The color intensity indicates the amplitude of the ground motion.

Here is a ground velocity map for that model. Red = ground movement of at least .25 m/s. Yellows = fuhgetaboutit...




(The researchers next models will be on LLNL's fast machine...ASCI Blue with 5,856 processors @ 3.8 Tflop/s peak) <---put this on my christmas list preasethx

[Animale]

Heh, I work about 200 feet from Hayward Fault. Hope it doesn't go while I'm here.

Animale

[Arborealus]

Heh, I work about 200 feet from Hayward Fault. Hope it doesn't go while I'm here.

Animale

Maybe it'll just go N -> S Unilateral for you...that wouldn't be so bad in Berkley...Bilateral or uni S-> N = Berkley Asspounding...:/