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.
20+ years ago there was a drive-in movie theater I'd go to in Waynesville, NC with a railroad beside it. Once a night a locomotive would come by and drown out the screen with it's headlight for a few moments before it passed by.
THE ABOVE IS A SITE WITH A LIST OF SUCH LINKS TO SUCH MAPS
A BUNCH of NEW MADRID stuff is at this link:
HERE: http://www.greatdreams.com/madrid.htm
In the map below, the black areas are supposed to be above water after the shifts occur. The diagonal lines are current water.
FROM:
HERE: http://www.baproducts.com/cannon.htm
ANOTHER BELOW WITH A COUPLE OF SERIES OF DEVASTATIONS DRAWN:
FROM: HERE: http://www.baproducts.com/ashton.htm
SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A LOT MORE of these sorts of things than the last time I checked many months ago.
FROM:
HERE: http://www.baproducts.com/chetmap.htm
ANOTHER somewhat interesting site though I don't like the heavy duty NEW AGE stuff at all.
HERE: http://www.bright.net/~gshaffer/earthchange.htm
ANOTHER STRANGE site with no maps:
GRAVITY MAP BELOW:
FROM:
HERE: http://members.aol.com/rafleet/hazmaps.htm
ALSO AT THE SAME SITE:
ABOUT IT.
Please read discerningly.
I have no real confidence that any of them are essentially correct. However, I feel that some things are definitely going to happen to submerge most of California. Maybe Phoenix will become a seaport. Also most of Florida--especially the Southern half. A major new gulf up to the Great Lakes from the Gulf of Mexico.
So, we shall see which of these will turn out to be mostly true and which mostly or totally false.
Heck, Chicago got raised about 8 feet when they put in underground sewers many years ago. There are still a lot of houses with two front doors, one right over another.
The many times we visited New Orleans we had to run thru flooding streets as it rained almost every visit. I'll miss Biloxi too & the beautiful homes on the north side of 90 (along with the Isle of Capri, Grand etc.) We almost moved there a few years ago. So sad.
Thanks. Hopefully the Lord will allow time for people to move to other areas in time to be spared. That's certainly my prayer for all my loved ones.
Interesting balancing act for me to pay attention to the signs of the times and also keep my faith strong in the Lord and my ears opened to hear from Him.
And also I try to ask God for wisdom and be obedient to the Lord rather than do anything through my own efforts apart from Him in the face of these drastic changes for the USA and the whole world.
Thanks. Good stuff.
I like that first map - it's about what I had in mind. It puts me right above the waterfront in the midst of the Appalachian Archipelago. I can even pretend the Cherokee Channel™ is a fjord!
Anyhow, thanks! This should provide some entertainment when I have a chance to peruse the maps. It'd be nice if there were more than the vaguest semblance (if any) of geologic rationale to most of them, but that's OK.
After everything, do you think any insurance company would offer policies for this area?
Buying out those residences might not be as expensive as it appears. They're mostly ruined now anyway and, one way or another, we're going to have to pay for rebuilding them. It's far better to pay for rebuilding them once, high and dry, than to be exposed to the same liability again.
After the Mississippi River floods the Federal Government relocated people out of the flood plain and built them new houses on the condition that the Government would not be liable again if they moved back to the flood plain, as far as I remember. Some other Freeper may know more about this project than I do.
You wrote "Dynamite ALL the levies, then build only on what is dry."
Excellent plan. Makes too much sense to be done.
The Dutch in Holland would certainly disagree with that idea!!!
Really a very good idea. I visited Venice once several years ago and was never so impressed by a working city. You get to it by crossng a causeway, and find yourself in something like a real world Renissance Disney World. You can get around the city only one of two ways--by boat or by foot. The canals being so narrow, boat speed is restricted to about 5 m.ph. All of this means it's just like stepping back in time for about 600 years, except most modern amenities are still there and the city's mostly for tourists. This means the welfare/criminal class isn't there any more than it's present at Disney World.
Get rid of the lake ponchartrain causeway and the low bridges blocking access to lake borgne and ponchartrain from the gulf.
The distance between the Mississippi river and Lake Ponchartrain, just south of Laplace - is 4.5 miles (map thumbnails below are clickable links).
Dredge a canal - BIG canal - here, as needed to the north side of Ponchartrain, and on to the the gulf through Lake Borgne.
Relocate the Mississippi River ports south of Laplace/Norco to the north shore of lake ponchartrain. Thus the port of South Louisiana is now the North Shore of Ponchartrain, across the Laplace canal to the Mississippi, and up the Mississippi to Baton Rouge.
As far as restoring the marshlands of SE Louisiana, put a river control structure in at Norco. Bust all the levees south of there except around the New Orleans special economic center. When the spring floods come - let the Mississippi flood the delta south of there and start restoring the marshlands.
That'll do the trick... (until the Old River Control Structure fails and the Atchafalaya becomes the Mississippi...)
Yup, thats the idea in a nutshell. Preserve the French Quarte etc and remake New Orleans into a quaint Old Town while allowing nature to work its wonders. Build new developments and smaller towns on higher ground where the workers will live and have mass transit to get them into New New Orleans and get their asses out in a hurry when the next Cat 4 hits.
I was in Venice in 1968. Long long ago. If you saw no crime then you were not a young woman walking around. Scary smelly place.
I love this one showing Phoenix at 1,200' above sea level high and dry and Las Vegas at 2,200' above sea level under water. Somebody is hoping a little too hard that "Sin City" - and almost every other major American city - gets wiped out.
Dr. Chet Snow must be a Denver resident. ;)
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