Posted on 09/02/2005 11:42:20 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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The article is correct. What they didn't mention though is that if you move New Orleans, you also have to move the suburbs unless you were to move it just over the other side of Metairie and the other large suburbs, but I don't know if there's enough undeveloped land with owners willing to sell it to do it unless they moved it some 30 miles west.
The enormity of the task of moving the city and suburbs is mind-boggling.
Although, as you state, the article is right, it would be incorrect to compare the New Orleans flood with Ground Zero without at least this reservation:
After Ground Zero occurred, everyone stood together as one nation against a threat from outside. Have a look now: looting, robbery, rape, murder, neighbors turning against each other over trivialities, armed thugs shooting at rescue workers (it doesn't get much sicker, does it?), and what else is happening....
If this is the way things are going in the years to come, may God be on our side!
God did it with one storm.
Only God knows how much needless death and suffering could have been avoided if that mayor had used them.
If justice exists...
backhoe,words fail me
The controvery over Lake Nagin is just beginning and it will be a scandal for years to come. Thousands of school buses in N.O. just parked there. This is Mayor Nagin's incompetence above all.
But the left will blame Bush: "Why didn't Bush ordered those school buses to evacuate people before storm hit. Bush hates black people..." blah blah blah
You know I agree with you-- and what is horrid, "The Mare," and his cohort, the blank-minded Governor, will not only get off Scott-free ( they belong to favored minorities the Tired Old Media would never dare question closely ) they will probably stay in office.
The billions of dollars aimed at LA and NO will assure that their supporters have a keen and vested interest in keeping their partners in graft, corruption, bribes, & kickbacks in place, eager to dole out favors.
Nahh, they wouldn't need to find willing sellers-- the government will just emiment domain everything they need.
Especially if the same people are in office in New Orleans and the governor's seat.
After the water is pumped out 99% of the homes will be OK with a little work and Gov't money so why does everyone keep saying it's destroyed?
Mayor "I am not a drug addict" Nagin.
You're kidding, right?
If you're not kidding, you need to click backhoe's links and spend 100 hours reading the way many of us have.
I've done construction work all my life-- after months of being submerged in brackish ( salt ) water, everything below the waterline will be mostly ruined.
Wiring- power & signal- will have to be removed and replaced.
Anything that can corrode, will. Think pipes, valves, steel, aluminum.
Most of a city's utilities are undergound-- pumps for water and sewage, as an example. All ruined.
Once you soak a pourous material ( wood, sheetrock, fabric ) in salty water, how do you get the salt out? If you don't, it continues to attract moisture from the air itself.
In my opinion, NO is largely insalvagable.
For a non-doper, he sure knew a lot of the lingo, didn't he? The word "projection" comes to mind...
99%?! Where in the world did you get your contractors license? Did you loot it?
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