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2. More brooms!

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2019, 11:43 AM

Jul 2019

We'll sweep this rising tide back out to sea if we just put more brooms on the beach.

But I'm confident that the men who have made themselves so wealthy in the petroleum industry in Louisiana will freely share their wealth to save the citizens of New Orleans and other threatened communities. Right?

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After a $14-Billion Upgrade, New Orleans' Levees Are Sinking [View all] Ohiogal Jul 2019 OP

Love New Orleans, but... Freethinker65 Jul 2019 #1

Mother Nature always bats last. n/t cloudbase Jul 2019 #11

More brooms! gratuitous Jul 2019 #2

And rakes SoCalNative Jul 2019 #5

New Orleans is screwed ... I hope the pumps and levees work Botany Jul 2019 #3

Plus the Mississippi is rising... Wounded Bear Jul 2019 #9

Storm surge TheRealNorth Jul 2019 #12

Ouch! MFGsunny Jul 2019 #4

Our tax dollars at work! Nt USALiberal Jul 2019 #6

New Orleans may be effectively uninhabitable by 2100 VMA131Marine Jul 2019 #7

Start abandoning the city now, stop spending money on the lie that the status quo can be RockRaven Jul 2019 #8

Mother Nature eventually wins... Wounded Bear Jul 2019 #10