Posted on 09/20/2005 6:15:16 AM PDT by manny613
he evacuation plans were inadequate and then bungled. The rescue was slow, confused, and often nonexistent. Yet the most striking fact of the New Orleans catastrophe has received less notice than it deserves: The plan for New Orleans in case of a hit from a very powerful hurricane was to lose the city.
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Short article.
There's a simple, natural way to force people to take that cost into account: force them to pay for their own home repairs--or else pay for the premiums, if an insurance company is willing to supply a policy. They'll decide for themselves if the insurance is worth it, or whether they wouldn't be better off moving to northern Miss.
This is an opportune time to get the study underweigh. But being the Government, I wonder what conclusions they will make?
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Like, duh.
Even if the levees had been raised to what were estimated to be Cat 5 level, realize that forecasters were off by ten feet in forecasting the surge that hit east of the eyewall.
So if the levees had been raised and more people stayed behind, accepting the estimates of the Corps of Engineers, and had there been a direct hit and the Corps was wrong, the death toll truly would have been catastrophic.
The point is not to make New Orleans safe in its current location. It should be to move much of NOLA to a location that is safe without extraordinary civil engineering projects.
Meanwhile, Congress and the White House consistently and sharply cut requests for levee-improvement funds.
He didn't say anything about all the money that got "diverted". Considering that, one can imagine (it's difficult, I know) that even Washington might be inclined to close the checkbook.
The Dims in charge of LA just consider the whole world a big casino, and NOLA was in the pot. So they lost a hand this time. Big deal, Uncle will give them an advance on their allowance for the next roll.
They forgot that this isn't a game. The dead and grieving certainly won't.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1485468/posts
The Port of New Orleans and WHY We Must Rebuild!
Bulldoze New Orleans, plant grass and move the city to higher ground or,
Bulldoze the city, fill in the six foot deficit and then rebuild it.
Rebuilding New Orleans where it stand today is ludicrous.
God bless our troops wherever they may be.
I read the whole article and it failed to mention the law suit that stopped the Corp of Engineers from doing improvements to in 95 or 96. The suit was filed by The Sierra Club and demanded a full environmental impact study. Looks like Katrina gave em an IMPACT STUDY.
I don't get it. Why would they allegedly set fires at seeing the flood damage?
Don't be silly. We're talking about the Government here. It never met a financial sinkhole it didn't like! And New Orleans is perfect in so many ways. Low income, high crime, gambling, tourism, and so much of that long green to splash around. A Government dream city if EVER there was one. The Government is going to be back, happily rebuilding and pouring a couple of hundred billion taxpayer dollars into that sinkhole. No way is the Government ever going to let go of that bedraggled cow.
Cynical take: Perhaps flood damage is not covered by their insurance, but arson is.
Fire damage is insured. Flood damage, in NOLA, isn't.
Ooooh, that makes perfect sense.
That particular idea is risky. The city is sinking; adding fill is likely to be only a temporary measure.
So if most mortgage companies and insurance companies will not back home building on a known flood plain. Why in the world would rebuilding be allowed, supported if not promoted on the same?
The MSM and the politicians would have a field day with such a decision.
Even if they just designate low lying areas as uninhabitable and relocate these residences to safer areas would be political heresy.
It would be much more acceptable to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to rebuild this death trap.
The cessation of government-underwritten (taxpayer-underwritten) flood insurance would guarantee that no city would be rebuilt in that location.
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