Let's build a new New Orleans

nwitimes.com ^ | Sunday, September 11, 2005 | Morton Marcus

[ladyinred]

What? Use their own money? Bite your tongue! The refuges of NO have it all coming to them, and we should pay for it all! /sarcasm

[DManA]

You want to pass the hat or are you going to point the gun and take it like usual?

[Revolting cat!]

Dome it! But will they listen? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[rock58seg]

is to haul in millions of tons of rock and dirt to raise the NO at least ten feet above sea level.

Not that farfetched. It was done over a hundred years ago in Galveston, with much more primitive equipment than is available now. There is continuous dredging on the Mississippi river, to remove sandbars and other impediments to river traffic. Load it into barges and unload it in NOLA. Decide ahead of time what is to be kept and what is to be buried. Jack up what is worth saving, fill in underneath. Level the rest.

[rock58seg]

When I was Asst. Export mgr. for a large paper co. with many plants along the river. We invariably negotiated for ocean liners to use the port of Baton Rouge, for our products. Even our own LASH ships used BR as their home port.

The necessity for NOLA as a port is overrated

[Melas]

You're showing a certain naivete here. Texas is grand, but untold tons of goods still travel down the Mississippi River, which in the 21st century is still vital. The Mississippi doesn't run through Texas. Like it or not, the Mississippi Delta is in Louisana, not Texas or Florida.

[null and void]

Thanks.

[Sunnyflorida]

One thing we are sure to see is the tourist, port and other commercial activities fully working before the projects get rebuilt. So the question is why rebuild unneeded housing unless it is at a person's own personal risk. What amazes me about public housing is that the feds build public housing were there is high unemployment. They should only build subsidized housing were there is low unemployment.