“A large tsunami could flood sizeable areas of Marina del Rey and Long Beach to an elevation of 15 feet,” Wilson said. According to the scenario used by CGS, the first surges of a worst-case tsunami would reach the Los Angeles coastline in about six hours.

Major tsunamis could hit Los Angeles with little warning. Residents should know the signs and when and where to evacuate, scientists warn.

In 2019, a study projected that in low emission scenario, sea level will rise 30 centimeters by 2050 and 69 centimetres by 2100, relative to the level in 2000. In high emission scenario, it will be 34 cm by 2050 and 111 cm by 2100.

New Orleans, Louisiana is sinking at a rate of 2 inches per year. Both human and environmental factors are to blame for New Orleans’ sinking land. Before people settled in the area, the Mississippi River routinely deposited sediment along the coast.

12 Rapidly Sinking Cities

• of 12. Alexandria, Egypt. Dam construction on the Corniche in Alexandria.
• of 12. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• of 12. Bangkok, Thailand.
• of 12. Charleston, South Carolina.
• of 12. Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• of 12. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
• of 12. Houston, Texas, USA.
• of 12. Jakarta, Indonesia.

The rate at which the coastline is diminishing is about thirty-four square miles per year, and if it continues another 700 square miles will be lost within the next forty years. This in turn means thirty-three miles of land will be underwater by 2040, including several towns and Louisiana’s largest city, New Orleans.

“In the 1960s, New Orleans gossip columnist Betty Guillaud allegedly coined the moniker while comparing ‘the Big Easy’ to ‘the Big Apple,’” Reader’s Digest writer Juliana Labianca writes. While New Yorkers were perpetually running around, laid-back life in New Orleans reigned, hence, The Big Easy.

Most of the crime in New Orleans comes from the fact that its city and tourist areas are small compared to other cities. Add in thousands of visitors during celebrations like Mardi Gras and you have a haven for petty criminals.

In the early 1900s there was a dance hall in New Orleans called “The Big Easy.” But the nickname did not become famous until the early 1970s. That was when a Louisiana newspaper writer began calling New Orleans by this name. She compared the easy-going way of life there to the hurried pace of life in New York City.

New Orleans is a city with a lot of nicknames. It’s been known as the Crescent City, the City that Care Forgot and the Big Easy.

Back to that smell: Grease that is produced from cleaning dishes and pots and pans stinks to high heaven. Resembling the most disgusting grey peanut butter you can imagine, it is packed with decomposing food particles, including animal fats and proteins, giving it a distinct odor.

“Lose-ee-ann-a.” Four slippery syllables with all those soft and sibilant consonants and so many vowels, said musically and so quickly as almost to pass for a bird call.

So, no, we don’t commonly say NOLA, but we often will write or abbreviate New Orleans, Louisiana as NOLA, and have been for years, but with periods included as it was before more common and customary to include them (N.O., La.

NOLA, The Big Easy, the birthplace of jazz, N’Awlins. New Orleans can go by so many names but one thing is for sure, the city is more than just partying in the streets. The city offers beautiful architecture, great food, great seafood, and it can even titillate the minds of those who love a scary story or two.

Detroit was named by French colonists. In French, Detroit means “the strait,” but is pronounced “De-Twah” in French!

Atlanta Vampire Alliance, a house for ‘real vampires’, conducted surveys that found there are at least 5,000 people in the United States who identify as vampires. Browning said about 50 of them live in New Orleans alone.