New Orleans is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. New Orleans is world-renowned for its distinctive music, Creole cuisine, unique dialects, and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The historic heart of the city is the French Quarter, known for its French and Spanish Creole architecture and vibrant nightlife along Bourbon Street.[1]
Coverage[]
New Orleans is primary featured in Waters of Death.
It was introduced in 1 day after people when orbiting satellites no longer warned if another hurricane will strike New Orleans. The show gave information that the city's French quarter dates back to 1718 when the government of Louis XV built at trade and military outpost along the Mississippi River. Under the American flag, the quarter became famous for its music, revelry, and Mardi Gras celebrations. After people, the party's over forever and not just for humans. Meanwhile, the death count begins at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas and in the first few days, some fish will starve but the real problem is the sudden lack of electricity to the aquarium pumps. James Arnold stated after people, the emergency generator would run for a week and after the fuel run out, there would be no one to fix it.
The fishes suffocated or choked by their own waste.
In 1 week after people, outside of New Orleans, one and a half million alligators barely notice the absence of people, even in the vast fresh water bayous, but a few found some unexpected treats, escaped pets. This makes the thirsty dogs to be in danger. Raymond Coppinger stated that the alligators catch them at the waterhole as a surprise. At the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, the emergency generator has shutdown after a week and the jellyfish are the first to die where water pressure pushes through their gelatinous bodies as they sink to the bottom and they disintegrate. The waste of the fish was eaten by nitrosomonas and nitrobacter consumed the waste of the former in the time of humans, making the system worked perfectly as long as it was operated by trained people. James Arnold stated that the system would all slow down and then stop. The ammonia filled the waste which crowds the tank as the oxygen depleted and when the fish breathe, the ammonia poisons their systems, from sharks to snapper, where they gasp for air and hemorrhage internally. As the fish die, the waste eating bacteria have an ammonia banquet and the Katrina disaster is repeated, without last minute rescues.
In 1 year after people, the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas suffered little outside deterioration after a year but inside there is only one survivor, the white alligator. It can survive a year without food by reducing their heart rate to 1 or 2 beats per minute, but after people, the white alligator dies.
The flooded hotels of New Orleans.
In 30 years after people, New Orleans is flooded compared to the high and dry Seattle. Mike Folse stated that New Orleans will have fish and snakes, tops of houses sticking out, and vines growing all over making like a jungle grown around the remnants of structures. It is not the result of failed levees, it still stand. Without humans to run more than 150 drainage pumps and with little natural evaporation, the lower parts of the city is filled with rain. New Orleans averages almost twice as much about 5 feet a year unlike Seattle which had a reputation for rainfall. Ironically, the levees that were built to keep water out, holds the flood in creating new kinds of aquariums for the city. Gail Gainey stated that the marble floors of some of the hotels would be unrecognizable by under layers of sediments and would be inhabited by clams, crabs, tube worms, and eventually nurseries for some of the larger fish.
The levees fall apart.
In 150 years after people, the levees are being eroded by nutrias, who torn apart the levees in a thousand pieces. The barriers fall apart and the waters of the Mississippi tumble in to join with Lake Pontchartrain which ironically reduce the flood waters which top 20 feet in places. Mike Folse stated that if the levees fail, the water will be sea level and with the ground being two, three, or four feet below sea level, it would be the depth of the water and fluctuate with the tides. Although the flood tide is lower, the introduction of so much saltwater hastens the corrosion of the base of the buildings.
One Shell Square collapses.
In 300 years after people, the tallest building has lasted the longest, being the 697 foot corporate headquarters of One Shell Square. Its windows are long gone but the structure remains. However, water has been corroding the building for 300 years while more than 20 major hurricanes have wiped around its walls and girders. It took a final category 4 hurricane to proves too much causing the wind and waves to bring the tower hurtling down.
The flooded cemeteries of New Orleans, after 1,000 years.
The fate of New Orleans is revealed in 1,000 years after people when New Orleans buildings are gone but something else survives in the mud, the Mardi Gras Beads, which turn into a form of sunken treasure. Mike Folse stated that while the string would break, there will be little plastic beads under the mud and muck in thousands of years. Meanwhile, the cemeteries of New Orleans have withstood the worst effects of water for more than 200 years but in several thousand years, geologic forces pile up sediments and the city of New Orleans lie beneath the Mississippi Delta. Jan Zalasiewicz stated that New Orleans is subsiding and humans cannot stop that. The dead at the cemeteries lie undisturbed no longer. Jan Zalasiewicz stated that mud will seep into the coffin, which begins to encase and envelop the remains of the body.
In 10 million years after people, the fossilized corpses of New Orleans are a mile and a half underground, where pressure and heat combine to cause a further transformation. Jan Zalasiewicz stated that the cemeteries would be at boiling temperature water making the bones carbonized and forming oil, which migrate up through the sediments that accumulated on top of the cemeteries. The soft remains of bodies of New Orleans have become oil.
Transformation[]
The transformed New Orleans in 1,000 years after people.
The transformation of New Orleans are hardly mentioned although in 1,000 years after people, geologic forces have pile up sediments and New Orleans would lie beneath the Mississippi Delta. Jan Zalasiewicz also mentions that New Orleans is subsiding in 1,000 years after people. Visual transformation seen in Waters of Death would make New Orleans to be the water bayous, flooded plains, or a marshland as being part of the Mississippi Delta.
Abandoned[]
Main Article: Abandoned areas of New Orleans
Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the neglect of man 4 years after.
In Waters of Death, the episode featured the abandoned areas of New Orleans 4 years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, where it sees the future of life after people. Abandoned areas were range from the lower Ninth Ward to St. Bernard Parish where floodwater leave the trail of destruction and were left abandoned by man, which many left scars of Hurricane Katrina, mans neglect, and microscopic invaders.
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