Posted on 09/03/2005 1:44:14 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Rebuilding New Orleans below sea level is just asking for another disaster even if the levee's are strengthened.
Bulldoze the city except for the downtown and French Quarter and fill it in with spoils from Lake Ponchartrain. The lake is very shallow and could supply the material necessary to fill in the city.
This city is too important to national commerce to just abandon.
Lake Pontchartrain isn't really a lake, it's an arm of the Gulf of Mexico. You can't drain a body of water into another body of water of the same elevation.
I suppose it could be dammed off at the inlet and the water pumped into the gulf, but that would take years. And even then you would have a large piece of land shaped like a giant saucer sitting there below sea level, which means it would soon fill up again and then you're back to where you started.
Could someone tell me where the hell the jazz was? The last three times I was in NO, the only jazz I heard was on the radio.
If you have any links to "future maps" I'd be quite interested to check them out, for novelty sake if nothing else. I like alternative maps. I once mapped out my scenario for what the nations of North America might look like if the Natives had achieved a degree of state formation comparable to 16th century Europe.
Ask France to take it back!
Maybe large portions of New Orleans need to be condemned and then zoned as commercial or something..... I don't know how such things work, but I would hope we don't have to buy out hundreds of thousands of people who went with below-sealevel locations....even if they just bought it from someone else....
Why?
That area should definitely be above the floodwaters and I would surely hope that they secured the gallery before fleeing (I'm assuming they fled). I haven't really sat down and pondered much about what might be lost by New Orleans because then I'm liable to get depressed.
It would be less ambitious than the Zuider Zee in Holland. This plan has my vote!
Fine, then you and those "some people that love NOLA" can pay the full cost to rebuild the stupid crime-ridden city in a bowl of watery death and you can pay to insure it too. The rest of us would rather not have our tax money wasted on rebuilding and insuring it. Rescue the survivors, recover the dead, and then bulldoze it. If there's any industry necessary in the area, have them build in a safer location and the population will grow up around that industry.
It is five feet above sea level. Was it looted? Did they move the photos to a higher floor? I don't know. It was open on Saturday. The guy had the largest collection of signed Winston Link photos in his drawer on this planet, including about half of the photo I linked still owned by galleries.
It was an easy way to get around their anti-gambling laws.
The coastal and riverside communites were all for it because it prevented anyplace without a shoreline from getting in on the action.
That's partly what I'm afraid of. Enchilladas Jambalaya and mariachis playing Jazz with a Latin beat on Bourbon Street. The only things left of the original atmosphere of NO, would be the welfare and the lake.
Who said bulldoze the French Quarter?
Because it's old and moldy and it stinks.
I love the train pic!
What is the fresh water/salt water composition of Lake Pontchartrain during "normal" times. I know it would vary depending on tidal influx and storm runoff.
You should see it up close and personal. You can read the numbers on the speed dial. Everything on the pic is a prop (except the location), and the car is the one the photographer owned, with the back seat ripped out. He then had his lights and cameras set up, and when the train went by, pressed the lights, action, camera button. He was both a photograher and an engineer. He went down to Virginia and West Virginia, to capture the images of the last steam engines running in America in about 1956 and 1957 or so. That pic is in West Virginia.
It will be interesting to see where it is rebuilt. It won't surprise me at all if its rebuilt in the same location.
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