Posted on 03/06/2006 4:35:55 PM PST by Saints fan
Talk about non sequitur - those arguments were for re-building the port. None of them were for rebuilding the *city*. Two different questions.
Wait till the Federal government distroys your city. You'll sing a different tune.
I'd rather they built a colony on the moon first! Almost as practical as a mass populated underwater city!
"Similarly, other great ports on deltaic rivers, like Rotterdam, are also below sea level; the airport serving Amsterdam is 20 ft. below sea level, lower than any part of New Orleans."
Do these great ports get hit by hurricanes with 170mph winds?!!
They have been at it a long time and I would imagine engineers from there could be hired to come over and come up with a plan for New Orleans. If they can't, at least we'll know we tried
You've obviously never been to new orleans
Uh...the federal governament DID NOT destroy New Orleans. And I live where we don't get things like tornado's and hurricanes.
Americans should ante up for levees that could/would be breached with one well placed IED which would result in another disaster.
I don't think so...
N'awlins...move it or lose it.
Excuse me for a bit of common sense, but NO will never be the same. And it should not be the same. The logic of rebuilding is lost on many people, and I am one of them.
OK, rebuild the port, and leave the French Quarter and whatever else is still in tact, but the absolute stupidity of rebuilding homes below those levees is just freakin' nuts.
Let nature reclaim what needs to be reclaimed.
The Federal Government has been destroying cities for decades now. What has that got to to do with the problems of New Orleans?
Yes they did. Sorry.
Blaming the Federal Government for the flooding of New Orleans is like blaming the French when the German army ran around the Maginot line.
Perhaps The city should have allowed the Feds to build those flood gates back in the 70's. Oops.
The Federal government did not destroy your city.
The failure of the levees was a matter of time. They were only built to withstand a Cat 3 storm. Katrina was a Cat 5 until it hit land. When it hit NO, it was a Cat 3/4.
The first Cat 4 or Cat 5 storm to come along would have done the same thing--destroyed the levees.
The Federal government, meaning the rest of us, paid good money over many years to build and to maintain those levees. It is not our fault that the corruption of Louisiana politicians diverted this money.
After all of the years of planning for a disaster that everyone knew would happen sooner or later, it is particularly repugnant to see what happened due to the failure of local and state officials in Louisiana.And even more repugnant to see that no responsibility is taken by them-it is all the fault of the Federal government and the rest of America.
We know now without a doubt the extent of the flood plain once the levees are breached. So, don't build there!
The port is OK, downtown is OK, and the French quarter is OK. A few neighborhoods are goners. They are uninhabitable anyway. They need to be bulldozed and parkland built over them. New housing, which is up to code and not substandard like most of the housing that was lost in NO, should be built on higher ground farther out from the city.It's not like some irreplaceable architectural gems have been lost.
That's the only thing that makes any sense.
Otherwise, feel free to blame everyone else and then proceed to rebuild in place---with your money.
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