Why New Orleans' Geography SUCKS
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Fun fact: The European settlers were surprised that the natives hadn’t built any settlements in the modern day New Orleans area. It was flat and solid and between 2 important bodies of water. When asked, the natives told them that it floods all the time and advised that the Europeans should not build a settlement there. They did not listen obviously.
This should be top comment.
@@blllllllllllllllllllrlrlrl7059 interesting. At Mardi Gras in 1982 an old native of the city told me it was a sinking ship.
Cause people have no common sense and just see Dollar signs
Europeans wanted to prove the Indians wrong, I guess, and it turned out well for them, given that the Indians are nearly extinct. 😆
You’re forgetting that it worked well for hundreds of years as a port. They got want they needed out of it.
POV:The year is 2050. New Orleans tourism is now booming as thousands of divers make their way to Louisiana, hoping for a tour of the underwater ruins.
I would love to see that and also the ruins of other great cities, Venice, Manhattan, San Francisco, Los Angeles,etc... 🤣
Even if the city does flood we won’t be able to do this
The water around here is too damn muddy 😂
@@vinniedennywini8126 Well crap, there goes that get rich quick scheme
@@kenmdrt listen listen
underwater city that is self sustaining
@@judaegekikamen4223 LA and SF wont be underwater anytime soon lol by the time that happens we'll be dead and long since forgetten.
I am a Katrina survivor. I lost everything at 16yrs old. The stress of rebuilding killed my father and my mother was not able to rebuild her life she had pre-Katrina. We still have not recovered 17yrs later!!!; So many crooked politicians ensuring a large amount of the population couldn't afford to rebuild and fraudulent programs just wore us out. I now live in Baton Rouge but my family still resides in the city. Be vigilant and don't count on the government entities to have your best interest at heart.
I was affected by hurricane Sandy on the Jersey shore. My family never saw a penny of the FEMA money. Either did my friends families. It’s all a scam.
Never have, never would.
I'm sorry about that, hope you're doing well right now
vote red
@@ZeBescht Lmao
When the French founded La Nouvelle Orléans, it was a perfect spot, both strategically and commercially. The position at the delta of the Mississippi opened a great route to explore inland Louisiana.
When Venice was founded, it was at the perfect spot because the swamps offered natural protection from ravaging Visigoths and Lombards. Today, for both cities the submerging swampy ground is a big problem.
truth
I mean, consider this.
France was able to build one of the largest (geography wise) American colonial empires based solely around New Orleans and Quebec.
I guess both New Orleans and Venice have something in common.
France is gay Cajuns are tough
That’s just not true. The natives told them it was a stupid place for a settlement because it floods so often.
We could easy solve the flooding problem by telling to Nestle that there’s water there
That is pretty nice 😂
Good joke 💀
My God!
I prefer PERRIER water.
LMAO
The French Quarter of New Orleans is one of the coolest places in America. You can literally walk block after block past the original 1700s buildings still standing.
Mexico says hi . We have buildings from the 1500s even, we preserved all our colonial architecture
@@tonyjesus1657 Who is talking about Mexico rn. Noone
@@freddyfuentes3320 than217 said "America". Mexico is also on that continent.
@@uwetheiss970 Referring to America as in the United States. If they said “The Americas” than yes it would apply to Mexico as well. Use context clues
@@uwetheiss970 America isn’t a continent in the English language and there’s *nothing* you can do about that.
So Nola is the embodiment of “I’m here for a good time, not a long time”
Precisely
Laissez Les Bons Temps Roulet!
Mmmhmmm who dat!
define long time lol cuz she's been around a long time in my book
The city itself is decaying. I visited for the first time in years this year in 2022. I was plainly shocked at the state of the place. It breaks my heart. My dad is from Gentilly, I grew up visiting practically every year as a kid. It's a special city to me, and seeing it as it is, is truly tragic
We're visiting right now, and is kinda the vibe indeed..it feels like it's dying even though it's still beautiful.
A local; my family and many others despite living near or relatively near are not allowed to go into or near the city besides for medical appointments if needed. I hate it a lot. Went to the quarter as a kid all the time. Not worth getting shot getting gas.
The storm surge from Ida was so insane that the mississippi actually flowed backwards for a few hours
Holy sheeth
I don't want to lessen the impact of Ida at all but that happens all the time with storm surges in that area due to the levees.
@@Mr___f yup
That’s just how tidal rivers work. Near the coast, most rivers flow backwards when the tide is rising
That happens a lot actually, in other rivers to for other reasons.
And you best believe people don't take it into account anywhere.
I knew a guy who worked on levees in Nola, he raised some concerns over safety issues with the levees, and was promptly told to shut up. The construction and maintenance of the levees is so unbelievably corrupt.
He said he was literally taken out of the room and told “how things work around here”.
Yeah and citizens like me in New Orleans every year have to gamble everything they have and care about every year because of that.
Kk is Justin’s
Welcome to the USA. Same for most infrastructure all over. Sad really
Believe Louisiana has the most for-profit prisons as well. When the next Hurricane devastates the city, I say let it sit abandoned. Enough with throwing money at morons that keep building in high risk flood areas.
NOLA is rife with corruption from top to bottom.
I grew up in New Orleans, and I felt a bit guilty at the relief I felt that my family moved out the city before Katrina hit.
We lived uptown, in a part that would not have been horribly affected, but it still would have had problems.
I did have my share of flooding before we left. I remember one May, in the 1990s, when it flooded for pretty much the whole month and they closed the schools down.
No one cares
I knew the Mississippi was important, but I didn't realize it connected so much of the country together. Really fascinating video, thanks for sharing this information with us.
Patrick Star: “What if we push the city?”
PUUUSH!
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0 like wht
That should be his final smash in nick all star brawl LOL
Yes
When the French were scouting out the land in Louisiana, an engineer very plainly said it was a very bad place to build a port...but was overruled by the nobleman making the decision.
Once again, management ran roughshod over technical expertise.
They then realized their mistake and trade Louisiana with the British for Quebec.
@@Albertu What are you talking about, seriously
@@Albertu what??
@@Albertu My brain just imploded. Gotta wash the brain matter, now. Ain't cool.
Sources??? Please insert citations here thanks
I love New Orleans so much, it's such an incredibly beautiful city and unique with its rich culture and design. It's an absolute tragedy that it might not be around for much longer.
Thanks because I’m from there
Why not? Its been there for centuries. Natural catastrophes are inevitable but they can be handled
@@manuelese8760Nola can only be saved by massive intervention (socialism) by the federal government. Which we know that one major political party opposes, at least in its current rhetoric
God this is so depressing. I'm moving to New Orleans for graduate school in July. A big part of that decision, other than liking the school, was wanting the opportunity to immerse myself in the city and its culture before its gone, or hollowed out even worse than it already has been. I've visited on multiple occasions and there was never enough time. I absolutely adore that city.
Say brudda Ian gon tell u wat to do but don’t move down dea 🤦🏾♂️
tulane?
You'll be fine...this city isn't going anywhere. But if you're here in the summer, be ready to evacuate. It's part of life here, sadly.
Bring a bullet proof vest
@@permanentvacation2406 Been here for around 8 months now, and honestly the crime doesn't scare me. I'm more aware of my surroundings for sure, but I don't see me getting shot as likely. Most of the serious violence is just thugs beefing with each other.
Been seriously enjoying the city though. I think I'm going to stay after graduation.
New Orleans is essentially the real life embodiment of building a sandcastle at low tide and then trying desperately to build more and more walls that keep collapsing as the tide goes up. Eventually you abandon it altogether as it's completely destroyed.
I saw it as a trading post. Never somewhere to settle down on. Once the post dries out, you move on.
I dunno who the hell told these people to try and settle down on, but i'm willing to bet it was in the times where slavery/racism was still on the high.
New Orleans and southern Louisiana will be underwater in a century, this is the reality
@@heartlessoni13 Are you on crack?
I live in that sandcastle bruv…👁👄👁
Sure is! But we love it 💪
New Orleans: *sinks*
Venice: *yes i’m gonna have a new friend !*
Jakarta: *can i join your friend group ?*
Never thought these 3 had anything in common till now lmao
Mexico City: First time?
Kolkata and Dhaka: We will join after a few decades.
Manila: Im coming!
Sad about you guys
"When the Levees Broke", a great documentary about Katrina and New Orleans. Very sad but worth a watch.
Thank you for creating this documentary. You can learn something new everyday. I had no idea that New Orleans' geography was essentially a bowl.
When the Levees Broke was amazing.
I lived 40 miles south of NOLA when the levee broke. When we heard about it on the radio me and family sat in silence for atleast 30 minutes. 12 year old me barely understood the consequences.
Really good video, also around 7:50 he explains the sprawl in the 70s. My parents told me growing up it was common to see bulldozers knocking trees and bushes over and being paved over to make neighborhoods. All those trees rot over decades and cause the ground to sink even more as well.
It truly sucks how NO's future looks. The things that help made that city feel the way it does and become the way it is are eventually going to consume it.
Profound, isn’t it?
Sounds like California
Just build it up, worked for Paris :V
Yes i know it's a terrible idea. But that's probably what's gonna happen...
@@branstangsmokes6201 deep
@@higueraft571 with what money? Louisiana has been robbed of offshore oil money for decades. Had they been given their rightful money the levees would be built to withstand a cat4 making new Orleans hella safer than it's ever been. We went thru Katrina. The govt. Played more than their part to keep the french quarter dry as a bone while we drowned out in 33 foot high ocean. It's all a game that we the people's tax money funds yet we never get to play and they never play fair. Tis why America is an absolute joke to some other major parts of the world. Bought Louisiana for $17 dollars and have made trillions/billions/millions/thousands/hundreds/dollars/cents off of the lands yet won't give back .. let that marinate.
To be fair, they knew it was a shitty location when they settled it. The native Americans of the area only used the region as a temporary trading post once a year or so. When Bienville settled the region, he did so without permission of the French government. And, he later convinced them to make it their capital of the new world only by sending them plans for a city that had a perfect grid of streets all named after the noble houses of France surrounded by a prominent wall. The plans never really came to be until much later and the wall was never built. The actual ideal locations that natives recommended to early explorers was further up the Mississippi river in modern Baton Rouge. The main location that the French wanted to use as their base in the west was Biloxi Mississippi.
How's baton rouge for tourism?
Do you have a history degree? Have you ever lived in Biloxi or Mobile?
@@hooligoonfilms6298 Baton Rouge has a good college football team and literally nothing else of any value.
@@FivestarrDamian Wait, really? Omg I didn’t know that, I love Odell Beckham jr. I’m not from Baton Rouge but I am from Louisiana and that is so cool
@@Snow-xd4rv Yep, we went to school together and then he went on to play for LSU in college.
Losing New Orleans is going to be so tragic because New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz. It's history and its culture will all be lost. Sure, they can migrate the city up North along the Atchafalaya River, but the historic location will still be lost, and of its old historic buildings will be lost to the ocean, which is going to be so incredibly sad.
It’s really the most beautiful city in the state. It’s definitely a world treasure.
Your channel is the most informative on all of RUclips. Thank you, I've learned so much.
I never knew just how much of the Midwest is connected to the Mississippi river. Growing up in Arizona, seeing even the Colorado river was impressive.
I wished it rained more in the west
The Mississippi river system is in my realistic colossal map of América (pole to pole) for Age of Empires 2 HD I'm almost done doing. To go by land from Mississippi to New Orleans, you have to go around much of North America. It's a huge detour.
@@spritemon98 Vancouver?
I feel you I’m from Az also
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St Louis has the largest inland port in the country. St Louis and New Orleans were extremely important for the French
Yeah but geographically speaking it sucks
The port of Huntington WV is bigger.
Not as important as Canada for the French.
Cincinnati port is biggest inland us port by volume
St. Louis was once one of the largest and most important cities in the US.
I visited Nola for a Seahawks game in 2016 and liked it enough to take a job down there last year which was a mistake. Crime is so bad that I had to leave a year later.
I got say! I recently found your channel and I've been watching all your videos! I'm hooked! Thank you so much for your content!
This reminds me of California, but in reverse. California geographically just can't support it's current population - the state is mostly a desert naturally. We have redirected large rivers to make it habitable, but at a certain point we can't fight nature.
I feel like that’s a bit of a mischaracterization of the issues California faces - the problem isn’t that most of the state is a desert naturally, but instead that the majority of the population of the state is settled in the driest region, and to support that population the state had to steal water not just from the wetter regions, but from neighboring states as well. There are orange orchards and cotton fields in San Bernardino county, a region that sees an average of six inches (15cm) of rainfall a year.
@@ktakashismith read Cadillac desert
That’s Southern California , Northern California has mountains, snow , forest , delta river that connect to the Bay Area into the Pacific Ocean , once we get more rain up here and there less fire Northern Cali really beautiful
@@alexjager4517 I mean that's essentially what I'm referencing here (edit: and yes, everyone should read Cadillac Desert, it's an incredible book); the San Joaquin valley was essentially a seasonal marshland, the Owens River Valley was a riparian zone visited by migrating waterfowl(now one of the driest deserts in the country) - if the industrial barons of Southern California had their way, there would be a water pipeline running all the way from the Yukon in Canada down to LA.
While there's a lot I appreciate about the metropolitan/cultural aspects of Los Angeles, I cannot stress enough what an immense ecological disaster the very existence of human civilization in Southern California is.
THAT would be a great premise for a video - the environmental consequences of building huge cities and industries in places they really shouldn't be.
@Account NumberEight It just rain my boy , Dont worry it’s still more beautiful than dry ass so cal
On a serious note, I feel sad for the thousands of people that will have difficulty migrating away from the city as time goes on. Moving is expensive and not everyone there is loaded, so I’m sure the inevitable migration will be difficult.
side note: where do the Saints and Pelicans relocate to?
I mean, the Saints would probably head to San Antonio, Texas cos of prior history and the Pelicans are up for debate but; most importantly, the US government needs to setup a refugee development in various cities for the inevitable destruction of NOLA for those whom want to leave.
New Orleans is not gonna make it to the 22nd century
I legitimately think it's going to be the first modern city that is going to have to be resettled.
It's happened to towns and communities, but never a major city. The government will have to buy everyone's house and demolish most of the city. Probably just keeping some historical locations around as a monument, but with a moratorium on anyone new moving into the diminished New Orleans.
@@planescaped that's such a scary prospect...
Looks like Aquaman's gonna be expanding his burgeoning property empire
Yeah it sad that I have to leave New Orleans after living there for 13 years
My geology professor had actually said that new Orleans is gonna be underwater by 2050 and he was laughed at for suggesting that new Orleans needs to be moved like 200-300 miles inland
Your geology prof should stick to geology. You can't move a port 200 miles inland.
@@ricobarth he meant that they should just build a new city and abandon the old one, because its gonna be under water one of these days
I’ve learned more in this video than I did in a full high school year’s worth of history. Everything should be taught like this.
New Orleans:
> Destroys wetlands for more land
> Gets destroyed for destroying wetlands
lol
well its more complicated than that. The Army Corp of engineers leveed up the Mississippi, causing the delta to dry out and get brittle and blow away by the hurricanes. Then oil companies created "CANALS" through the delta also causing the near by swamps to get swallowed by the water........
Mother Nature said "nice try, kid"
> Gets destroyed for being destroyed for destroying wetlands
Mother Natures karma
As a native of Belle Chasse, I am greatly offended by the unadulterated facts in this video. It's all so true that it hurts.
I agree with you. Envy kills too.
As a native of Harahan, I’m just glad to be above sea level
@@michaelp7250 Things change.
The channel's name is REAL LIFE lore, what did you expect?
There's a city called Belle Chasse? It means "Nice hunt" (in french obviously)
I'm from New Orleans. It's so complicated. One thing is the oil drilling cut up the barrier islands, which protect the wetlands, which protect the levees and so on. I live in Alabama. I miss my city so bad
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
The Dutch: _"Cities can exist without human intervention?"_
Only the ones naturally built by the dinosaurs
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@@arealhuman826 yes
Laughs from behind levee
Ohh, cool, Real Life Lore is talking about NOLA, finally some Louisiana represention.
*reads title*
Aaaahh shiiiiiit
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
To be fair, it sucks here sooo
Any recognition is good recognition!
@Maska Saaaaamee
ikr
same thing. I'm from St Bernard myself. :)
I don't think the coast line will get so bad as he described. Assuming we manage to maintain the current river course, If St Bernard and Plaquemines are completely underwater, I don't think any of us will still be living there trying to stop the river from overflowing levees that are already underwater. As soon as the areas become uninhabitable, or unprotectable, then the river will be free again to rebuild those wetlands south and east of New Orleans.
Hey just wanted to say great video! Very accurate facts. Also as a native to the greater New Orleans area, I just wanted to point out that the first R in Pontchartrain is actually silent.
Keep up the great work!
Say brah, I didn't know you had a connection to the area. That's really cool, I love your channel. It's a very good and accurate video.
Water: “It’s over, New Orleans. I have the high ground.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You underestimate my POWER!
@@nathanv4320 DON’T TRY IT!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
“You underestimate my levees!” “Don’t try it”
New Orleans is such a special city to the US. It’s culture is the primary reason but the second is it’s people. There is a reason the city still stands. The people are stubborn and love their city. I was there with my friend during a bad tropical storm that swept through. We were at a bar when half the city lost power. The bar owner lit candles and told everyone, “drinks are half price since it’s all gonna go bad with the fridge out!” He handed out towels to people coming in from the storm. The culture, food, music, and haunting beauty of the swamps make it such a unique place. I guess you gotta visit before she sinks. All great things must come to an end.
I know it's hard for people to let go of something they love. But you have to be real. Mother nature doesn't care about anyone's feelings. They should make a long term plan to move the city, or shrink it to remove the lowest lying populated areas.
Exactly!
I don't want no city in the us to die out...
the one thing we honestly have in spades is stubbornness. I mean we dont shut down schools during tropical storms unless its actually extremely dangerous to get to school.
Thanks so much I love it here is never leave
I clicked on this because recently I’ve been looking at cities and thinking how they’re in a really bad location. There are so many cities! I’m from New Zealand and I’ll give you an example of Wellington. It’s on a peninsula so it can’t expand east, south or west and it’s also closely surrounded by mountains so it couldn’t even expand far in those directions before it ran out of space. There’s also lots of mountains in the north so the Wellington area is actually made up of 4 different cities that are loosely connected to each other. The worst part is that Wellington was a planned city, it was only a small town that they decided to turn into a big city and make the capital. There is some farm land to the east and there’s tons more flat land there, would of been a much better place for a city. Auckland is also not in a very good location but that’s just because they have a big population now, they probably never saw it getting so big and the location was fine before.
I visited New Orleans for the first time august and it’s really a shame it’s located where it is . There’s so much water everywhere and I pray for the people that live there. Their culture and food are top tier but sadly nature will eventually claim it 😢
I've worked at FEMA since 2017. There's a running "joke" that as long as Houston and New Orleans exist, FEMA will never have to worry about losing federal funding. If anything, the agency is guaranteed to grow in the years to come.
as a texan why
@@tgroberandluffy9217 it’s not pronounced with the r. It’s pronounced pontchatrain.
Basically take that first r out and then say it.
As a North Korean. Water is the least of your worries. 🇰🇵
You a reservist or CORE. I became a IA reservist recently after being a local hire.
@@Markmygame CORE. It's funny I see your comment. I literally just resigned last week. Lol. This line of work ain't for the faint of heart. You gotta be willing to sacrifice your mental and physical health, time with your family and friends, rest, work/life balance. Everything. Your body is officially the property of FEMA. It was only 4 yrs but it felt like 15 yrs. Good luck to you though. Maybe you're built for it.
The French sailors and explorers who founded the city found a high spot for their city that never has serious flooding and is a great natural river port. Their city was only the French Quarter and some of the surrounding high grounds. Early 20th century developers drained swamps to expand the city, placing homes in natural marshlands. The French quarter, Garden district and Audubon park areas are much drier than anything south of Baton Rouge.
Uptown too. That’s the problem. We don’t flood. Not trying to diminish what has happened to other parts tho.
The issue is that most people live where it floods, and unless anyone is gonna attempt resettlement, then water control needs to be made
The downtown area, the French Quarter, Uptown, and the Garden District are the only parts of New Orleans that should have ever been built.
THANK YOU FOR SAYING IT, also university district (which is pretty much Audubon park but still)
it was actually an incredibly stupid idea to drain wetland and swamps to expand the city, because they are what absorb the water and prevent major flooding to the more dry areas. not to mention that they protect against erosion too, which makes flooding even worse. i don’t think a lot of people realize this but swamps are so incredibly vital to southern areas because they collect and store the water, acting as a barrier. concrete and cities actually do the opposite and water builds on top of them bc the streets are impermeable. they might look gross or be impossible to settle in but swamps should NEVER EVER be drained
It's fascinating to actually see Hurricane footage with actual Lightning in it. Most of what they show us in the news is never the full power of these powerful and terrifying events
I rode out Hurricane Ida almost 2 years ago. Man scariest shit ever. Ida was stronger than Katrina was at landfall. The prob was when it made landfall it just stopped but was still absorbing energy from the gulf so it didn’t really weaken. Then moved further east and eventually to the north but what was supposed to be a 3 hr storm turned into a 12 hr storm
Lake Ponchartrain was not the major issue during Katrina. It was the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet. MR-GO has since been closed.
To be fair humans have a habit in general of placing their cities in really bad locations. What would be interesting is seeing a video on the city with the best geography.
Do we though?
I'd appreciate some examples and with the time period that cities were established taken into consideration too. Cause I mean even New Orleans was a great location at the time it was founded.
Not necessarily bad location more of a habit of starting settlements near rivers
Just a quick question. What do you think has the best Geography for a city
istanbul,probably. I mean the Roman Empire relocated there out of endless possibilites ,probably the first and last time this happened. Moscow from a strategic perspective but it does have downsides..New York,Singapore..
As someone who has lived in and loves New Orleans to death, it is one of the best cities in the world in one of the worst locations for a city. Humans are masochistic creatures, what can we say?
I live on the middle of a desert, can relate.
As a guy living here his whole life. Yea it’s a shithole, but a lit shithole
@@thatguy55 a fucking men
@@SuperJoseee lol feel ya, which desert?
@@thatguy55 thank you 😊
Being born in the Crescent city it hurts to see her dying little by little. I currently live in the capital of Baton Rouge about an hour away from New Orleans. Despite having moved New Orleans will always be hometown. Nature is killing my home state on a daily basis. We have done work to help slow this destruction through wetland development projects but needless to say we are kind of pissing in the wind. The people of Louisiana love our state and our congressmen constantly work to get funding from the federal government as well as state and local governments to fund projects to preserve our coasts and wetlands. Louisiana is a unique environment and ecosystem that is worth saving.
Wow this is great information. Good work.
I been living in nola for 30 years now, I've always said someone from the future (probably a guy with a name like Plato or something) would talk about an ancient civilization that lived in a place of great culture, food, and people. They had drive through daiquiri shops, crawfish boils, and mardi gras like none other. It was called, "The lost city of New Orleans". And No one would believe him.
Don't forget the 7 tastee donuts locations
Loved New Orleans when I visited. Most fun you can have in the US!
@@mvwil You don't know what fun is if you think New Orleans was the most fun 😅
@@Moistwaffle472 yes I love tastee donuts
theyll live in jetsons style stilt houses
In late July , I went on a road trip with a few friends to New Orleans for the first time ever, and it was the farthest I’d ever been from my hometown in St.Louis. The beauty of that place, all the art and history, the friendliness of the people down there, I kept saying it was a once in a lifetime experience, but videos like this and Ida showing up like a week after I got home really made me eat my words. I hate that such a wonderful city has such a short shelf life due to the incompetence and hubris of the people who designed it, and it’s really not fair to the people who built lives and families down there. I really hope they come to some solution to all this.
Did you take one more step and it'd be the furthest from home you've ever been?
If you like history. St. Augustine Florida is a must.
Oldest city in America....
ST LOUIS GANGGGG
@Alex someone should ask the Netherlands they know all about this shit
It's okay bro no matter what the block parties down there will always prevail lol
hearing this when i have many more years to live in Louisiana kinda makes me feel lucky, because i just live near New Orleans, not in it
Haven't heard anyone mention Katrina in a while. I don't live in Louisiana so I'm sure it is talked about more there, but it seems dangerous that areas outside Louisiana seem to be forgetting it.
I’m from New Orleans. We actually learn about New Orleans’s geographic situation in school, which is fantastic, but I love learning more about the lovely Crescent City.
Nothing lovely about it. Costs our country billions (mostly tax payers from the Northeast). Guessing they never taught that part in school. New Orleans shouldn't exist.
@@topspot4834 mOstLy TaX pAyErS fRoM tHe NoRtHeAsT
Me too we all now that New Orleans is below sea level
Well ya'll better learn from the Dutch how to tame the sea or start moving North.
@@chrissao_502 Coastal elitist snobbery at its worst.
nice to see someone that actually cares about new orleans and with family by new orleans making a video about it, and especially the fact that he actually pronounces new orleans correctly throughout the entire video
This video made me unreasonably emotional. I don't live in Louisiana and have only ever been there to visit, plus I don't have any family there. But I live in Houston, and I've been to Galveston so much over the years that it's like a second home to me. Both Houston and Galveston have similar problems - Houston is built along the Buffalo Bayou and as seen with Hurricane Harvey, flooding is a big problem. Galveston is on a barrier island - an island that serves as the first defense for the mainland coastline during a hurricane, and it's been pummeled by hurricane after hurricane - the worst of course being the Great Storm of 1900, but also Hurricanes Carla, Alicia, and Ike, just to name a few. So it makes me feel a bit of kinship with the people of New Orleans, who love their city and are probably just as scared of losing it as I'm scared of losing Galveston.
Not to mention I'm old enough to remember Hurricane Katrina - seeing the coverage on the news and seeing Houston inundated with refugees from New Orleans. It was pretty scary.
I’ve been a huge fan of yours for years now and as a fan who hears this video, damn you got it pretty close. My family lost everything in Katrina when I was 11 years old. Ida has yet again done the same at 25. I’ve lived in New Orleans metro area my entire life and it’s very painful to see what’s happening and even more painful to understand why. I’ve always been a geography and history nerd, and to see you target this area in one of your videos is, negatively?, cathartic. I’ve known for a long time that this city is doomed not only geographically but politically and economically and even in some ways, socially. I cried watching this video. I love my city, I want to live here. But I know it can’t be. Your pronunciation was actually pretty good too, and you get major brownie points for that! To anyone else who lives here, especially those who lost, be strong. Be compassionate. Be thankful. Be steadfast. But don’t be ignorant. Good luck to us all, and let’s make the best decisions for ourselves, and our families.
Agreed stay strong my friend I wish you much luck and send much love to you!
Same here, I was 10 and lost everything down in St. Bernard parish. Seeing the reality of our unfortunate future is devastating.
Stay strong friend!
Great comment
@@brigeem5022 Did you still live here for Ida?
As a New Orleans resident I can say that Ida definitely was a test for the systems that were put in place after Katrina and they held up remarkably well. Less than 3 weeks after getting hit by a storm that was actually far stronger than Katrina at landfall we are already getting back to normal. The places that didn't fair so well are to the west of us. Houma, Laplace, Thibodaux, and many other cities just to our west were devastated. It kinda sucks that New Orleans gets all the attention when we faired decently well while our neighbors got destroyed and no one talks about them because they aren't as well known.
What about Mississippi next door? They got the worst of Katrina and Goddamn New Orleans robbed them of Media attention especially on a Global level.
My grandfather's clan is from houma, so yeah 🥲 it sucks
I live in Baton Rouge
If that power line had not fallen, would it have taken even those 3 weeks?
Lake Charles got destroyed by Laura and everyone forgot the day after.
I work on a towboat in the Mississippi River normally staying around algiers point and the surrounding areas. I was on the vessel when hurricane ida hit. And that thing was no joke. As bad as I feel for New Orleans all I could think about was grand isle at the time. Not sure what it looks like now but their little island wasn’t an island for a while there. Prayers to all those dealing with the repercussions of ida
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Virtually the whole country of the Netherlands is below sea level, it's just that they built up incredible sea defences which have been constantly strengthened for the past several centuries. This requires collective effort, investment in the future & intervention by strong central government. None of which come naturally to more individualistic, live for now, love of small government US citiizens. Infrastructure in general is neglected in the US.
Everything in this video is why, as a New Orleans native, I am leaving as soon as I have the chance. This place is doomed.
California welcomes you :D
@@karenwang313 THE 🌎 WELCOMES ALL CITIES.
@@karenwang313 When you get so scared of flooding that you move to the desert
Please come to brazil
@@Ja_escolheram_o_Rios NO, THANK YOU. I DON'T WANT TO BE MURDERED.
I grew up outside of New Orleans and my family lost everything in Ida. The hurricane stalled over them for six hours. They took a direct hit. Please remember there are places outside of New Orleans that were greatly affected by that hurricane. Also, there is a great community there that takes care of each other.
I rode out the storm at home in Thibodaux, and I know I'm one of the lucky ones. I never lost running water, I got power back day before yesterday, and my apartment building got minimal wind damage. Most of my family hasn't been so lucky.
We know
Houma is destroyed
We understand that but New Orleans is the primary center. With buildings and 300k population, that city isn't gonna survive by the 2100s
Ye I live in New Orleans and they say grand isle is uninhabitable and laPlace got he rlly hard as well. Hope ur safe bro
I’ve been here living since I was born, I grew up seeing this place, and I still am, I love the place, but I hate the people who made it in a swampy area, maybe a little up the river? That woulda been nice. It’s saddening to me, because I know that the city I’ve always known and loved will be gone soon, the clock is ticking and it won’t stop. Please y’all, if you can, visit before we are gone.
Fun Fact. Here in the Vancouver Canada area a suburb called Richmond and our major international airport were built on islands in our mighty Fraser River. If we have a major earthquake both islands will liquify. In modern times our provincial government realized this and authorized another airport built inland on solid ground. Unfortunately Richmond is home to western Canada's largest Chinese population and grows everyday. And they don't have a clue what they are sitting on.
I'm from New Orleans, I think we know we're doomed, so we just party and live it up until doomsday comes. There's a reason why we have Hurricane Parties. We are gonna let the good times roll no matter what
And they just won’t understand but it’s a New Orleans thing... wouldn’t expect y’all to 🍻🍾
Fellow New Orleanian. Amen. Reading all these comments about how we are dumb for living here. They aren't cool enough to live here.
I'm from here also and I have to say, I'm taking my educated ass away from here ASAP. It seems there a lot of comments about N.O. from people who have never been, but there are also the comments from people who have never been anywhere else.
@@SchiesterMalG I have backpacked through Europe and been to 48 states. Still my favorite city in the US
@@SchiesterMalG same 💯
Thanks for bringing attention to New Orleans and Louisiana’s terrible situation it’s in right now. I just want you to know that Atchafalaya is actually pronounced Uh-Chafa-Lie-Yuh
Also, you don't enunciate that much on Ponchartrain 🤭
@@OatmealTheCrazy yeah you just take out the first R pretty much
@@caseybouquet I'm just glad he didn't try to pronounce tchoupitoulas or Calliope
I almost had a stroke when he said it 😂
@@OatmealTheCrazy I recently listened to a (pretty decent) book about Marie Laveau where the narrator hit the enunciation so hard each time it raised my blood pressure.
"She often performed rituals on the shores of Lake PONTCHARTRAIN."
At 16:08 you show footage of Rita damage in Ponchatoula, LA, which is technically a suburb of New Orleans. Thank you for including the little city my Mawmaw lives in. We are often forgotten, and we are also suffering from the same wetland loss that the more southern area of the state is dealing with.
Wow, thank-you for sharing all of this. It all makes sense sadly. It's a beautiful place, rich in history. Take care everyone.
As we can tell, definitely, absolutely, 100%, nothing can go wrong with a flat area prone to floods and hurricanes, that has been ravaged cleanly and rebuilt several times, with a worsening climate situation. Nope, not at all!
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Also with extremely high crime rates and bad infrastructure and doesn't learn from hurricanes. Yeah what could go wrong
Did you even watch the video? Clearly, if you did then you have a learning disability that either inhibits your paying attention or storing new knowledge.
@@Tylerw1231 i know right, New Orleans is completely fine, so is all the wildfires in California, and the recent flooding of China, and the island nations in the pacific about to get engulfed to the sea. They’re all completely fine!
@@MajorJakas I..did. Although I did skim through it in some points, I got the exact information of it, and why is it going to sink. So please, how about throwing insults at someone without learning the intentions of the person behind it on the comment, learn the concept of ✨joking✨please. And no I won’t wooosh you people who do that are rather annoying.
If I started a brand-new civilization from scratch, I'd do like the Cahokians did and pick the intersection of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. It's such a fantastic city location that they founded it twice, with St Louis getting built there centuries later.
You'd choose mid America as your brand new city? Really? That might be the last place in the country I'd start it. There's no better geographical location in the US then New York City ... Manhattan specifically.
@@topspot4834 his opinion why you sad
@@topspot4834 I think New York gets too cold to be completely ideal. I think Italy or Greece would be my picks for starting a Civ game on Earth. Specifically Italy. Very mild climate, a perfect peninsula in the middle of this large inland sea that’s essentially guaranteed to be full of other strong trading partners (and enemies, however) due to it being covered in other good spots to settle. That could definitely be an advantage or disadvantage, and I can absolutely see the argument for settling somewhere where you can be in the ONLY good location in the vicinity. However, in the long term, Italy and the Mediterranean are I think perfect for building a huge and powerful empire, given the tons of wonderful areas to settle/conquer nearby and the ease of travel around the Mediterranean.
What people don't know is that the reason so many people died during Katrina is because the people who were in charge of the pumps left and new orleans and the surrounding area was doomed to flood. Even the mayor fled the city leaving the civilians alone and the US military did not really put effort into helping the civilians.
In St.Bernard parish(the parish bordering the 9th ward) they were hesitant to turn the power back on due to the refinery. It uses so much power it needs its own grid, and if something were to be wrong internally it would go up in flames, along with the entire parish and the 9th ward.
City planners: How close do you want to be located near a hurricane and flood area?
New Orleans: Yes
👍. They ❤ hurricanes.
Du hast nen echt geilen Namen😂
@@marleystar3 danke 😂
Commits a crime.
Judge: "You're sentenced to buy a house in New Orleans."
(Buys houseboat.)
@@ryanpayne7707 No. How dare you try to beat the system.
@@ryanpayne7707 just became an honorary member of The Smart Kid's Club.
good luck affording one, prices are crazy
Thank you for bringing light to this catastrophic issue. Although there are so many climate change related issues, this is very dear to my heart as my dad was born and raised in New Orleans. New Orleans is certainly an interesting place to say the least; it has a very unique culture, climate, and overall way of life (i think) and to paraphrase my dad, “new orleans isn’t the south, it’s a whole different culture”
Would like to see an analysis like this for Chennai (another city that floods a lot, and had a disastrous flood in 2015)
I'm not sure why people keep trying to compare the Louisiana coastline with The Netherlands. Louisiana and The Netherlands are night and day scenarios. New Orleans has far too much working against it to survive intact indefinitely, regardless of human intervention. Sure, part of The Netherlands is also below sea level. But the Dutch don't live in a giant, rapidly sinking salad bowl at the mouth of the largest watershed on the planet, in the second most hurricane prone region on the planet. One would be hard pressed to find a geographically worse place to build a city than where New Orleans is currently located. Mother Nature inevitably defeats New Orleans; it is not a matter of "if", it is a matter of "when".
fact check: the gulf of mexico isnt the most tropical cyclone prone region in the world. that title belongs to the west pacific, where the typhoon season runs all-year round
Move to Holland then.
@@h.f6364 Fair enough, although my point is no less valid.
The Gulf of Mexico is a close second, with three of the ten countries with the most named cyclone landfalls located there. The west Pacific has five of the top ten.
How can you say the New Orleans and The Netherlands are night and day. The Netherlands had a harder time. Over 1/3 of the country was swamp/below sea level. The whole country is literally a delta. And yet after the 1956? storms (I think) they managed to secure the delta and most of their coastline from major flooding.
@@christopherstefanatos7197 I had already answered your question in my first comment, but here is the answer again in four simple words: Mississippi River, Hurricane Alley.
Listening to non-Louisianans trying to say Cajun names is my favorite thing
I always look forward to them pronouncing lake Ponchatrain.
@@jude4581 his pronunciation was surprisingly close
@@michaelp7250 Neither were bad, just funny to hear. Just gotta remember which t's are silent haha
Let’s see the pronunciation of the last names Herbert and Richard!
I say it like Kay Juhn. I might be wrong. I hear people say KaJoon
Whoever produced and made this video did an excellent job. If you tube gave awards for excellence then this one deserves one
Thoughts on rerouting some of the Mississippi River to the west? LV, AZ, CA are all in a drought and could use the water, and stop New Orleans from flooding
Really good presentation
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it is good animation
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can u buy time with ur bucks
Bro i live there😂😭
Netherlands and Belgium: finally a worthy ally. Together we will fend off sinking into the ocean
I sincerely hope Louisiana gets the funding for projects on the scale of the Dutch. Even just beyond the lives and homes saved, the development potential is high and the cultural evolution of the state into "We fight our greatest enemy every day! the ocean will bow before our might" is awesome.
Plus, It's be interesting to see how the landscape of the state changes.
We need to work together and share ideas. One thing we do in Louisiana is throw out Christmas trees on the coast to rebuild floating islands
Venice: Laughs in sinking being a tourist attraction
Netherlands fixed it by dealing with the problem. NO just puts a band aid on a sucking chest wound and acts surprised when it dies.
@@acb9896 exactly!
I like the accusing tone and dramatic music! :)
New Orleans at its outset was appropriately laid out with regards to topography & geography. The places in NOLA that flood were low lying areas that were drained nearly 150-200 years after the initial arrival of europeans. Look into sliver by the river.
I've never been anywhere near Louisiana, and yet I have a weird recurring dream about being in New Orleans. There's just something about oddly fascinating about the fact that every drop of rain that falls on the middle of North America eventually passes through New Orleans.
Sometimes we drink those drops too, the river is the water supply for the majority of the city…
Fun fact: New Orleans is often nicknamed Nola, which is also the name of the city where I live (It's a small city in Italy near Naples)
Che fatto divertente
@@Lord_Yamcha fun fact si traduce con curiosità
@@marcosettembre 🥶
@@marcosettembre I'm Indian learning Italian
I till only leraned numbers and greetings
@@molohoukwow somebody is learning italian that's handosome
New Orleans is like the Venice of North America. A major world port for a lot of its history & also struggles with major flooding issues.
Or like Mexico City - sinking.
I’m from New Orleans and I love it here but it makes me sad that my home will be underwater in 25 years unless something unforeseen happens.
Me who lives in New Orleans…
**laughs in extreme difficulty**
By your photo you are very nice.
As someone who lives in New Orleans I can confirm that we live with the natural disaster setting on very frequent
Daily worries imao, i know right
what is that like? do you have evacuation plans?
@@healthyandrew5294 I hauled ass towards Houston when Ida hit so that’s my evacuation plan is just beeline towards Houston
As someone who lives in the Northeast, I can confirm I'm sick and tired of my tax dollars CONSTANTLY going to a city that shouldn't exist. Costs this country billions. People can't be that bright down there if that's where they choose to live.
@@healthyandrew5294 If the storm is expected to be bad, we get out of there before the storm is close and head to family, usually in Birmingham. Went there a couple weeks ago for Ida and am very glad. Power was out for about 2 weeks in NOLA. No flooding because the levees held, but still glad we evacuated. We live on high ground that didn't flood during Katrina so flooding likely wouldn't have been bad for us but would have likely devastated the city. The point is, yes, living here you pretty much have to have an evacuation plan.
Anyone else notice that several of these shots are actually of Baton Rouge louisiana? Like 2:12 is where I-10 crosses the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge lmao.
You can actually see the tan buildings of LSU in the top left corner.
I know this because I work in both Baton Rouge and New Orleans. When I saw the battle ship I immediately knew it wasn’t nola
One of my 1st major college papers was was based on this…The Drowning of New Orleans and how it was a bowl….the actions of the Corps and other agencies make it even more prone to flooding
New Orleanians love to navel gaze, so as a transplant resident, I loved the stunning drone footage. But one vital, vital point must be corrected: during Hurricane Katrina, the levees were not overtopped, they broke. If they didn't break, then the city wouldn't have flooded, and was in fact dry for a few days after the passing of the storm. The diagram at 9:45 is not how it happened.
Preach. A lot of ppl seem to forget---even fellow New Orleaneans---the reason why Katrina was as devastating as it was. I even saw misinformation about this very subject being spread by local weather stations, as Hurricane Ida was approaching. It was not the storm itself, as it was the engineering behind our levee system. The levees broke & fractured, and that's what created the chaos we saw and remember.
So, levees rarely actually get overtopped, breaking a levee is much easier than overtopping it.
Also most of the levees that broke in Katrina were I-Walls that failed against the force of the surge and were pushed over and/or eroded from below. The older earthen levees that were pyramidal in construction held firm.
It was overburdened not overtopped
Thanks for clearing that up…..We said were still here after Katrina and you’re right the streets were dry and not near the damage had been done…it wasn’t till the levees broke that all hell fell upon us..That was a experience wasn’t it?Much love 💕 New Orleans 🎭🎷🎭
“It was a foolish man who built his house upon the sand.”
Matthew 7:26
@@herschelwright4663 💯
The middle east:
Then made billions importing goods over 300 years.. lol..
Context, people..
well you see, that man was a pre-revolutionary french noble so yes foolish
Fun fact: My aunt moved to New Orleans and a flood ripped the roof of her house of and toppled some of the walls. Fun place though, and the rent is extremely low for.. pretty obvious reasons including things like this comment.
You put the USS kid downtown b.r. in this.. ran out of drone footage?! (2 or 3:15) haha . ... You can't change the past, but besides my complaint, great vid.
When he started talking about new Orleans being hit by Ida, they were showing storm damage from DOWNTOWN HOUMA, LOUISIANA!
Terrebonne and Lafourche parish is located south of New Orleans and took Ida's 155mph winds.
Ikr my husband has been bringing marsh buggies down there for entergy he said its horrible 😢
Ikr lots of misrepresenting clips here especially showing Baton Rouge at 2:17 which is far above sea level
And st charles parish, dont forget Laura