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Post by questa on Feb 11, 2014 21:41:14 GMT
These houses promise an idyllic home life, but even without floods, pollution from upstream, crocodiles and snakes. you still have the company of mosquitoes! I think these homes fall into my travel bag marked "OK for a holiday but wouldn't want to live there."
As a teenager I lived in a house on a bay in Sydney Harbor. My room was built out over the water, just high enough to avoid tides and storms. I would go to sleep at night to the sound of waves slapping against the heavy teak pylons beneath my bed.
Thanks for the reference.
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Post by questa on Feb 12, 2014 3:11:14 GMT
Oh boy...you are so close. It was Watson's bay at the Rose Bay end of the beach curve that goes around to Doyles at the far end. The "Sow and Pigs" was just off the little beach that was part of the property. This was in the late 50s before Doyles got trendy and opened his restaurant in Rose Bay We just thought it was a beaut place to get fish and chips, and drop our own fishing lines off Mr Doyles jetty. My brother got married in the park near Doyles.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2015 22:27:28 GMT
I'm posting this latest news in this thread as opposed to the weather thread or blah,blah,blah.
The last few days there have been alarming predictions of the Mississippi River being at a dangerously high level and there being a very high potential for flooding. I don't believe the Metro New Orleans area would be dramatically affected because safeguards such as 2 major spillways that could and likely would be opened allowing the river water "spill" into Lake Pontchartrain which from an environmentally standpoint be disastrous. The river is polluted with goodness knows what, the fertilizers alone would produce algae blooms in the lake that will dramatically affect the food chain etc., etc. etc....
I have a vivid memory of being a student in the early 1970's here when the Bonne Carre Spillway was opened for what I think was the first time. Therefore, the headline in the at that time, 2 local newspapers was about this event. I had an art professor who began the day's class with a rant and rail, total outrage, because the opening of the spillway coincided with the death of Pablo Picasso and the overall disregard for Picasso's death was clearly disrespectful etc. Sorry for the digression good people....
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Post by htmb on Dec 29, 2015 22:43:33 GMT
Keep us posted, Casimira.
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Post by htmb on Dec 29, 2015 22:47:44 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2015 23:38:24 GMT
Thanks HTMB. All eyes are on Memphis...if they flood, then we're f'd...
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Post by questa on Dec 30, 2015 11:41:46 GMT
Our ABC news tonight 1. Severe weather in USA with fatal tornadoes and floods 2. Record breaking (and collapse of historic bridge) floods in UK. 3. The recent fire in Victoria to break through this weekend in record hot windy days 4. Rain and floods in Northern Australia as drought since early 21st century breaks.
5. Situation in Iraq, Turkey etc.
and there are still some who doubt the science of climate change.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2015 19:31:54 GMT
Mississippi River levels are looking very grim in both Illinois and Missouri with levels 15 feet or more above flood levels. Also, of major note is some major fubar regarding the inadvertent negligent release of a sewerage treatment plant just outside of St. Louis. Lovely.... Evacuations of towns just north of St. Louis are currently in order along with sandbagging. The river level is 15 to 20 feet above flood level stage in St. Louis which has water from the Meramac River also contributing to the rise/flooding. It's rather grim for alot of people.
Perhaps Lola could she some light on the conditions there although, I know she lives nowhere close to the banks of the Mississippi but the local news must be inundated with more details.
It's fairly certain at this point that the spillways will indeed be opened to protect the major cities here, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. Bobby Jindal's last claim to the greater cause of Louisiana,but, maybe not, he's only got a day or so in power as governor. Good riddance.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2015 3:58:27 GMT
We walked up to the batture this late pm at around sunset. It's high right now but, I;ve seen it higher. Still not out of the woods yet.
What is really weird is driving adjacent or right toward the river and seeing how high the ships are. Almost at eye level, they look so freaky and surreal!!
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Post by mossie on Dec 31, 2015 15:38:01 GMT
Bad floods in northern England and Scotland. I know "global warming" gets the blame but these events have happened in the past. Todays problems are caused very often by lack of simple maintenance , a good saving in the annual budget, maybe next year we'll have a chance to get it done.
Also lack of common sense in not providing sufficient drainage for new developments, or where they are built. A nice flat field by the river is the ideal place to live, NOT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 3, 2021 21:45:03 GMT
Check it out! I wonder where this guy is from originally -- New England? Canada? Well, he's obviously from the batture now. This really took me back!
upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/They-Called-Us-River-Rats. Film by Betsy Shepherd
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Post by casimira on Jun 3, 2021 22:11:15 GMT
Our friend Luke just brought us a copy of Macon's book as they are good buddies. I know him peripherally and have been to his camp for some gatherings (bonfire, giant pot of gumbo going etc.). The interior of the house is mind blowing (to me anyway) as it is all stuff from the 1930's and 40's. Bark cloth upholstured furniture and period pieces from that era including an old Chambers stove much like mine. He has a vegetable garden going on year round and keeps a goat. A very interesting local color kind of guy. He wrote and published this book from the stimulus monies distributed during the past year. Bravo say I for him to do this and well wishes for great success with the sale of his book which I predict will sell off the shelves, at least here in our neighborhood. Thanks for posting this Bixa.
P.S. After Katrina I found myself at the same junk pile in the neighborhood with really cool stuff. He could have been a real jerk, "I got here first etc." but, he was very polite and civil about pieces I was eying at the same time as he. We both came away with cool pieces of furniture, lamps, etc. with no dispute between us. For that, I really respected him. I took my friend Maria up there for one of his gatherings post Katrina and she was completely blown away with the whole experience.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 3, 2021 22:13:42 GMT
Thanks so much! I figured you'd have something to add, but you brought us all the way there!
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2021 22:01:27 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Dec 27, 2021 6:12:24 GMT
Should the French not give back some money since they sold and got paid for a territory that is now shrinking ?
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 27, 2021 16:55:09 GMT
That's fair. They can probably afford to as well, since the price paid for those 827,000 square miles works out to 4¢ an acre. source
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 27, 2021 17:32:20 GMT
Too much to pay for mosquitoes and snakes.
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Post by casimira on Dec 27, 2021 19:06:20 GMT
It is very alarming indeed. Some of the barrier islands in the Gulf that we frequented and used to go camping to have all but disappeared year to year. The whole coastline and areas near it are sinking. Many people think that hurricane Katrina in 2005 was "the big one". Wrong. The "big one" has yet to come. It's just a matter of time...
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 27, 2021 19:12:14 GMT
More people need to watch the video but they don't feel concerned.
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