Posted on 09/01/2005 6:37:10 PM PDT by kellynla
Biloxi was hit just as hard, but in a different way. The water has receded there. New Orleans is flooded and it has a lot more poor people. Our Governor, Haley Barbour, is a super guy. He called for evacuation much earlier than Louisiana officials. He inspires much more confidence than Edith Bunker Blanco. I talked to a friend from Gulfport a few minutes ago. As he and his family were preparing to leave, a police officer came by to urge them to leave. According to my friend, the police and sheriff's deputies on the Gulf Coast were handing out toe tags to those who refused to leave.
How long would it take to rebuild New Orleans ABOVE sea level and with cat5 structures ?
they aren't trying to rescue people from the city flooding in the process.
Good bye and good riddance. The city most well known for immorality and corruption should be left under the flood waters.
Again, the city was built when it was at or above sea level. So I wouldn't go so far as to say it shouldn't have been built there. But now that it is under sea level I don't think it should be rebuilt there.
"How do you relocate a half mil people and their houses? Not to mention replacing every business, of which there are thousands."
They may have to.
It certainly would be cheaper and healthier to relocate the city on other side of the "Big Muddy" or the other side of the lake on higher ground than trying to refurbish a city that will be sitting on a cesspool inundated with raw sewage, chemicals & human remains unfit for man or beast.
And even if you were able to replace the entire levee system tomorrow, clean the entire city of raw sewage, chemicals and human waste what would stop some terrorists from flying planes into the walls after another storm and flooding the city again.
Even when they know the government will pick up the tab for any loss?
You let Mother Nature do it... as it already has.
My mother visited NO years ago after a flood had hit and took pictures of some of the mayhem. The flooding was minor by comparison; but, still caused caskets in the graveyards to push through the topsoil and go floating away. Was kinda creepy; but, I wonder how much of that is having to be dealt with.
As for the rebuilding of the city.. Liquifaction and other factors may forestall that happenstance. And by the time they manage to get that volume of water evacuated, I doubt very much that the homes and buildings there will be much worth salvaging. A little water can do a lot of damage. And there is far more than a "little" of it there.
The houses are sitting in water, eventually the wood will rot and the houses/buildings will collapse. I say pave it over, put up a parking lot!
The worse is yet to come. From the senior official in charge with handling the flooding. I think we can officially assume now that they are worried about the ol Mississippi river levee's.
Decades.
I couldn't agree more with Not rebuilding New Orleans in it's existing location. For anyone to respond with simply saying that the levy system need to be fixed and or made higher, I say that you could rebuild that entire levy system several feet higher, but it's still at the mercy of mother nature. There's no garuntee that during any other hurricane that large debris being pushed into the levy walls won't breach it again.
Now lets factor in the enviros claim of global warming and sea levels rising. Actually the real fact of what is causing global warming is not greenhouse gas emissions, it is the fact that the sun itself is getting hotter, melting icecaps, that are making sea levels rise. Hurricanes will also continue to increase in frequency and intensity as this is natures way of maintaining temperature balance across the globe.
Why rebuild an already vulnerable city that is sure to be even more and more vulnerable by not only more frequent deadly storms but also gradually becoming even farther below sea level?
Send them to Detroit?
Perfect!
The American people aren't going to pony up the cash to do so, especially after seeing the anarchy that is going on there and watching the ineptitude of the so-called "leaders" down there.
Even if they wanted to pay for it, where is the money going to come from? We're already running an annual budget deficit of $500 billion dollars.
Rebuilding New Orleans would be more difficult than building the Hoover Dam. It isn't going to happen.
(great pic of the Corsair on your about page BTW)
It would be a fitting end. Not quite so dramatic as Sodom and Gamorah; but definitely memorable.
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