Posted on 09/02/2005 12:51:35 PM PDT by orionblamblam
A typing, fishin, shooting, diving, driving (canine learner's permit), have no idea why the birdbath is tilted like that.....dog.
You have a nice back yard, BTW!
(could use a few more holes, and dead varmints and such....but what yard couldn't..??!!)
Thank you. My dog AJ (aka Fluffy the Wonder Mutt) loves to dig holes in my back yard. I got a bunch of topsoil from a cattle farm, so it must be the old cow turds he's digging for. Not just little scratches in the dirt, either, but nice big ankle-buster holes.
Damn, I really have to get on with the training, as AJ has no idea how to shoot or drive yet. He does try to sit in my seat when we go for rides, though.
The high-rises in San Francisco that "sway" are anchored to bedrock, as much as 200' below the ground. I don't know how far down bedrock is in New Orleans, but something similar is probably already being done.
"He does try to sit in my seat when we go for rides, though."
That is a good start. We are an underutilized species. The only problem is that some of us see nothing particularly wrong with leaving what we are doing for something else...which could be problematic when driving...so we are best qualified as co-pilots.
Your representative seems particularly gifted in Exterior Decorating, too. A wonderful field. You just didn't know where the holes are supposed to go. Hopefully, you can be trained.
Part of Honolulu are quite low, but I don't think much if any of it is actually below sea level. Hurricane Iniki in 1992 was a strong CAT 3/weak CAT 4 and didn't miss Honolulu by much. It's certainly possible a CAT 5 could hit there (though the surrounding ocean seldom reaches the CAT 5-sustaining 90+ degree temperatures found in the Gulf), but the wind damage would be the big story, not the flooding. Tantalus, the mountain just behind Honolulu, gets over 200 inches of rain a year. The land is well-sculpted to handle flooding.
And let nature do to the rest what it wants to do - make it into a lake.
Here's the problem - the entire region is subsiding, and eventually the development will be back down to sea level or below again.
There is naturally-occurring high ground to the west. Use it.
"How about a Venice Model?"
hmmm, how about bulldozed, filled in, paved over and build refineries and parking lots?
LOL!
>a task on the order of the Hoover Dam or Panama Canal.
I'd compare it to the launch facility SPECTRE built in that volcanic crater in Japan.
I'm in the camp that believes rebuilding NO where it stands is foolish. What I think doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, of course, but there you go.
A good question, which nobody seems to be asking, is if NO will ever again be insurable.
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