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After Hurricane Katrina devastated many parts of Greater New Orleans, I took some ribbing about living in such a dangerous place. Of course, many places where people live are subject to dangers such as earthquakes, blizzards, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding, heat waves, dust storms... you name it, someone has a predominant hazard.
On the New Orleans local news tonight, I saw another hazard that has to be at least a little bit more exotic. A woman in the city of Kenner (a few miles west of New Orleans) called out police because she had a six-foot-long alligator resting in the shade under her car. They had to call a licensed nuisance animal trapper to capture it for eventual release in a natural swampy area that is a game preserve. The video included pictures of the animal not liking the way he was being dragged away from his comfortable spot. Vehemently not liking it.
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/...sily/289-07c086b1-cbc1-4c8d-b874-eea1f8a7de05
The subsequent explanation is that because of all the flooding in the central part of the country, the Mississippi River is extremely high, so to relieve pressure on the levees, the US Army Corps of Engineers opened the Bonnet Carre Spillway, which diverts river water into Lake Ponchartrain. But doing so puts fresh water into the lake and alligators like it brackish - so they flee from the fresh water incursion and look for other places to hide.
I was just wondering, what kind of disasters happen in your neck of the woods? I remember Dick7Access recently had issues with a sinkhole. I had issues with hurricanes. What do you folks have?
On the New Orleans local news tonight, I saw another hazard that has to be at least a little bit more exotic. A woman in the city of Kenner (a few miles west of New Orleans) called out police because she had a six-foot-long alligator resting in the shade under her car. They had to call a licensed nuisance animal trapper to capture it for eventual release in a natural swampy area that is a game preserve. The video included pictures of the animal not liking the way he was being dragged away from his comfortable spot. Vehemently not liking it.
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/...sily/289-07c086b1-cbc1-4c8d-b874-eea1f8a7de05
The subsequent explanation is that because of all the flooding in the central part of the country, the Mississippi River is extremely high, so to relieve pressure on the levees, the US Army Corps of Engineers opened the Bonnet Carre Spillway, which diverts river water into Lake Ponchartrain. But doing so puts fresh water into the lake and alligators like it brackish - so they flee from the fresh water incursion and look for other places to hide.
I was just wondering, what kind of disasters happen in your neck of the woods? I remember Dick7Access recently had issues with a sinkhole. I had issues with hurricanes. What do you folks have?