Comments on: Sinking Faster http://b.rox.com/2006/05/31/sinking-faster/ Life in the Flood Zone Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:50:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Scott http://b.rox.com/2006/05/31/sinking-faster/#comment-22748 Scott Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:31:33 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2006/05/31/sinking-faster/#comment-22748 I wonder if the high rate of subsidence is caused by severe drought we're experiencing? I wonder if the high rate of subsidence is caused by severe drought we’re experiencing?

]]> By: Editor B http://b.rox.com/2006/05/31/sinking-faster/#comment-21173 Editor B Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:29:50 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2006/05/31/sinking-faster/#comment-21173 Here's a <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9249-radar-satellite-maps-the-sinking-of-new-orleans.html" rel="nofollow">map</a>. Here’s a map.

]]> By: Markus http://b.rox.com/2006/05/31/sinking-faster/#comment-21071 Markus Wed, 31 May 2006 18:19:08 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2006/05/31/sinking-faster/#comment-21071 Damn, a map would have been nice. I could calculate precisely the subsidence rate of 17 Egret St., since my father put some sixty odd pillings unde the house, and it is now for all practical purposes raised close to over a foot above grade. I'm going to have to go back and have a look (based on my memory of putting up a row of bricks around the side and front steps when the house went on the market in the late 1970s, indicating subsidence of a few inches in about fifteen years, and see what the intervening almost 30 years have gone. My recollection is that is effectively a raised house, but I'd have to go back and measure to try to figure out if the rate has increased. Damn, a map would have been nice. I could calculate precisely the subsidence rate of 17 Egret St., since my father put some sixty odd pillings unde the house, and it is now for all practical purposes raised close to over a foot above grade.

I’m going to have to go back and have a look (based on my memory of putting up a row of bricks around the side and front steps when the house went on the market in the late 1970s, indicating subsidence of a few inches in about fifteen years, and see what the intervening almost 30 years have gone. My recollection is that is effectively a raised house, but I’d have to go back and measure to try to figure out if the rate has increased.

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