[snoringbear]

I like the idea of clearing off the vacant structures and returning the land to farm land. Now, let's move on to New Orleans and do the same thing there....

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

If we let the Mississippi follow the course it wants to follow, it will flow almost completely into the Atchafalaya basin and abandon NO altogether. The reason the river flows lazily along the levee above the city floor is that it is forced to go down its old riverbed instead of the new one it wants to use. Read the fascinating article by John McPhee here:

The Control of Nature

[WritableSpace]

That ain’t the half of it. Lemme tell you that I’ve worked to help restore neighborhoods in New Orleans this past summer, and I currently work at a Church inside Detroit. There is no difference between the city hit by a that hurricane, and the one that has been ravaged by the inhumanity of the last 30 years of racist politics.