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A Shrinking New Orleans
Washington Post ^ | October 26, 2005 | Ceci Connolly and Manuel Roig-Franzia

Posted on 10/26/2005 7:05:32 AM PDT by robowombat

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To: Prolifeconservative

Well maybe the insurance companies know something that the rest of them choose to ignore- namely you don't build below sea level in a hurricane prone area.

If insurance companies won't insure them the rest of us don't want to pay for their ignorance/stubborness.


41 posted on 10/26/2005 9:26:07 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Prolifeconservative; Bob Eimiller
What? Do you not know N.O. is a major port? Do you not know midwestern farmers count on our port? Are you not aware of the oil and gas this area provides for the economic engine of the U.S.? I guess we could fill it in, then everyone will be bitchin' about their 7 dollar a gallon gas!

If we are going to spend billions of dollars to rebuild we might as well do it right.

first of all the oil refineries and oil port are not dependant on the city of NO being there.

Secondly the entire flow of the Mississippi is being captured by a smaller river (there was a thread posted on it here somewhere) that runs through Morgan city. Build a set of locks where the current dam/flood gate is and let nature take it's course. Build the new port in morgan city or there abouts.

Blow the levees and let the lake expand to it's natural borders. NO is a cesspool and will remain one.

42 posted on 10/26/2005 9:30:40 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: Prolifeconservative

Here is my suggestion, don't rebuild New Orleans. Any city built on a marsh, under sea level, and surrounded on three by water, shouldn't be been built in the first place.


43 posted on 10/26/2005 9:30:57 AM PDT by cpprfld (Who said accountants are boring?)
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To: pepperdog
Thanks for kind words. Serving there was a privilege.

However, the cold, hard facts won't stop the ignorant from searching for someone to blame their hardship on.

Yep, when somerthing goes wrong, the first thing to fix is the blame. PLUS, it seems an aspect of helplessness is the embracing of the notion that others, (e.g.: Mommie, teacher, the police, the government) are virtually all powerful, and so, if they don't give you what you think you need it must be because they are vicious, not because it can't be done or it would be bad for you. We have a large segment of our population, including many who vote, who are fundamentally infantile.

44 posted on 10/26/2005 10:39:43 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Allahu Fubar! (with apologies to Sheik Yerbouty))
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To: ladyjane

"If insurance companies won't insure them the rest of us don't want to pay for their ignorance/stubborness."

As long as the Federal government underwrites Flood Policies, YOU will pay whether you like it or not. It has nothing to with ignorance or subborness. You are making a mistake when you think Flood Insurance is underwritten by private Insurance companies.


45 posted on 10/26/2005 10:40:25 AM PDT by Prolifeconservative (If there is another terrorist attack, the womb is a very unsafe place to hide.)
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To: cpprfld

Fine, let's not re-build New Orleans. Don't bitch then, when gas at the pumps exceeds $6 a gallon.


46 posted on 10/26/2005 10:42:26 AM PDT by Prolifeconservative (If there is another terrorist attack, the womb is a very unsafe place to hide.)
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To: Bob Eimiller

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled A Shrinking New Orleans, Bob Eimiller wrote:

You want a suggestion??

FILL IT IN and MOVE ON!


Okay. Now let's also abandon all cities on active geological faults (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle), all other low-lying coastal cities (Houston, Miami, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston), all cities in river floodplains (St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Cincinnatti, Kansas City, Memphis, Minneapolis, St. Paul), and all cities in deserts without adequate water supplies (Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque). Everyone in the United States has to move to Chicago.


47 posted on 10/26/2005 10:50:05 AM PDT by Trimegistus
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To: Prolifeconservative
How you got from my comments to your conclusions is a mystery. I never mentioned flood insurance, public or private.
48 posted on 10/26/2005 11:38:08 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: robowombat
Headline should read:

A Sinking New Orleans

49 posted on 10/26/2005 11:40:17 AM PDT by md2576 (Don't be such a Shehan Hugger!)
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To: ladyjane

I was trying to educate you a bit, so you would understand why you must pay for the rebuilding in New Orleans. Wasn't that your initial question? (And then YOU mentioned Insurance companies in your last post.) Flood Insurance is relative to your question.

Sorry I confused you. I think some of this stuff is over you head.


50 posted on 10/26/2005 12:33:00 PM PDT by Prolifeconservative (If there is another terrorist attack, the womb is a very unsafe place to hide.)
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To: Bob Eimiller
You want a suggestion?? FILL IT IN and MOVE ON!

LOL!

51 posted on 10/26/2005 12:35:18 PM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Prolifeconservative
Fine, let's not re-build New Orleans. Don't bitch then, when gas at the pumps exceeds $6 a gallon.

If it turns out that the refineries didn't need New Orleans after all, and gas goes down, can we bulldoze the remains then?

Is cheap gasoline all that New Orleans means to you?

52 posted on 10/26/2005 12:42:06 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: Trimegistus
Everyone in the United States has to move to Chicago.

Wasn't Chicago originally marshland?

53 posted on 10/26/2005 12:43:13 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: steelie

My guess? The school kids are all gone, and mostly young single people remain. Schools are a big expense.


54 posted on 10/26/2005 12:53:30 PM PDT by HostileTerritory
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To: HIDEK6

"Is cheap gasoline all that New Orleans means to you?"

Did you even bother to read the entire thread? If you had taken the time to read the thread you would understand that I am an advocate for rebuilding New Orleans. My expensive gasoline argument is for the people who have no vested interest in the viability of this City, the same ones who want this city destroyed, or filled in, or bulldozed. I tell them to get ready for expensive gasoline then.

I live here! I once worked at the Port of New Orleans but Kartina changed all that. I want everything to come back as it once was and I've grown tired of all the know-it-alls who say bulldoze it, fill it in, burn it, etc. There are people struggling down here, people who have lost homes, jobs, loved ones, and entire livelihoods. Good people are struggling mightily down here to keep it together, hold their families together in some trying times.

This is not so much addressed to you as it is to the one's who look down their nose at New Orleans, the community and it's people........some who say right here on this thread "FILL IT IN and MOVE ON." There are others who think that's funny. And that attitude has prevailed here on FreeRepublic for weeks now. From their high and dry homes they cast stones.











55 posted on 10/26/2005 1:26:53 PM PDT by Prolifeconservative (If there is another terrorist attack, the womb is a very unsafe place to hide.)
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To: Prolifeconservative

Major port? Great!! Lets build a state of the art "major port" in an area.... ABOVE SEA LEVEL


56 posted on 10/26/2005 3:42:06 PM PDT by Bob Eimiller (Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, Leahy, Kucinich, Durbin Pro Abort Catholics Excommunication?)
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To: John O
Blow the levees and let the lake expand to it's natural borders. NO is a cesspool and will remain one.

My sentiment...exactly

57 posted on 10/26/2005 3:45:35 PM PDT by Bob Eimiller (Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, Leahy, Kucinich, Durbin Pro Abort Catholics Excommunication?)
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To: Prolifeconservative
Port is only an opening into the middle of the country.

Very, very few ships actually stop and unload in NO, compared to those that go upriver to BR and even as far as St Louis.

(The "port" of NO by the way, is already running. Has been for weeks. Who needs the rest of the city (as it was!) if the port is already running?)

Do you propose rebuilding Pompeii?
58 posted on 10/26/2005 3:49:51 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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To: GianniV

.....Maybe Juan Williams got her the job to make him look smarter......
great thought but CiCi is pure old mean. She always ends with a vicious remark. She needs a good dragging to wear off her mean.


59 posted on 10/26/2005 3:56:05 PM PDT by bert (K.E. ; N.P . Chicken spit causes flu....... Fox News)
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To: Trimegistus
Okay. Now let's also abandon all cities on active geological faults (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle), all other low-lying coastal cities (Houston, Miami, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston), all cities in river floodplains (St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Cincinnatti, Kansas City, Memphis, Minneapolis, St. Paul), and all cities in deserts without adequate water supplies (Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque). Everyone in the United States has to move to Chicago.

LOL Fault lines.... and "coastal" cities?

hmmmm Are you a gambling man? I would suspect the "odds" of more Hurricanes inundating that "hole" in the ground called "The Big Easy" are enormously... no infinitesimally greater than an earthquake swallowing another major city... There is an annual hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico... IS there such thing as an earthquake season??? un uh

60 posted on 10/26/2005 3:59:39 PM PDT by Bob Eimiller (Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, Leahy, Kucinich, Durbin Pro Abort Catholics Excommunication?)
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