New New Orleans: how about a Venice model?

[orionblamblam]

If New Orleans is rebuilt jsut where it is, it will always risk flooding. Well... how about they work *with* that? Instead of streets, have water-filled canals. Boats instead of cars. Homes and buildings on stone pillars to get 'em above the water, but surrounded *by* water.

Heck, might even spur on development of practical amphbious family cars.

[konaice]

Try Holland model.

Holland has never seen anything like a Cat5.

Holland, in its worst nightmare North Sea Storm gets nothing more than cat1 or cat2. Look up the definitions of Store Categories and you will see the North Sea is a pussycat compared to a Hurricane.

[orionblamblam]

> How would the women flash their breasts from a boat??

I don't know. But I'll reluctantly take the wearying task of figuring that out...

[konaice]

The wood parts won't last long at all.

Its Dead Jim!

[Sarajevo]

This brings to mind an earlier article about a hurricane survivor in Florida who built a concrete dome home on top of pilings. He safely stayed in his home during the hurricane while other homes around his were destroyed by winds and storm surge, with only minor damage to his own home. I cannot find the article, but there is some reference to the structure on the Monolith Dome Home website.

Now, about those amphibious cars....

[section9]

When NOLA does rebuild, and enormous sections of the West Orleans Parish will (not the east, the below water sections are gone for good), you'll see residences being forced to follow the Miami-Dade/Broward County, Florida building code.

N'awlins had no business allowing anything other than CBS construction. We wouldn't think of having candy-a$$ stick housing down here. Even with that, a Cat 5 will work its will here.

NOLA, had it been hit directly from KATRINA, would have suffered massive wind velocity damage prior to the flooding, I suspect.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[discostu]

Venice is actually highly susceptible to flooding. They're in the middle of building the most intense seawall system in the recorded history of man.

[PoorMuttly]

So maybe WE could do it better..??!!

Perhaps diverting the Mississippi a tad may help too.

I personally do not know a thing about it, being a typing dog n'all.

Maybe a combination of the three. I always wanted to fish from out of my window, anyway....as long as I don't catch a water-taxi.

[RightWhale]

But, the industrial areas, which is why the city exists at all, aren't swamped so deep. Port facilities, rail yards, grain facilities can be recovered, and if necessary could get some more gravel in the areas that need to be built up some without a lot of expense. Residential areas is a question now. A daily commute from Baton Rouge might be possible with maglev. Excellent opportunity for a demonstration of this technology.

[syriacus]

MONT-SAINT-MICHEL

[konaice]

A daily commute from Baton Rouge might be possible with maglev. Excellent opportunity for a demonstration of this technology.

Yeah, maybe. Make the whole delta a National wildlife and farming refuge, abut allow no housing.

Do to Louisiana what the Greenies have been doing to Alaska for decades, lock it all up.

/bites soap bar, slaps own face

[js1138]

Venice is also doomed. Just a matter of time.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Mine Colorado for stone, and fill it up to 12' above sea level. Then put every house and business on additional 12' high piles. Sure, you'd have to climb 2 flights to be at your "basement", but it would serve as an effective deterrent to building in such a stupid location.

[Fierce Allegiance]

A typing, fishin dog? Now that's cool!

[RightWhale]

There's plenty of gravel right up the road in Arkansas. Buy 2000 pieces of heavy equipment and it would be done in 3-1/2 years. Cost $1/2 billion.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Cheaper and faster than the next $30 billion rebuild.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Uh, if this plays out, they will be needing some H2O in that new Venice.

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:5fNE2-FnzKcJ:www.uh.edu/engines/epi1135.htm++Mississippi+river+to+flow+down+old+river+sooner+or+later&hl=en

[JoJo Gunn]

Well, Venice doesn't typically stand in the way of a possible category 5 catastrophic wind.

It's time to wave goodbye because New Orleans is gone. It'd be sheer madness to rebuild right where it is.

[orionblamblam]

> It's time to wave goodbye because New Orleans is gone.

No, it's not. *Parts* of it are gone. The skyscrapers, Superdome, etc. are all standing structurally more or less intact on dry land.

[JoJo Gunn]

Dry land surrounded by what?

[grellis]

Vencie was not designed to withstand a tropical storm, never mind a hurricane. Ditto the Netherlands.