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Bulldoze New Orleans
My fertile mind ^ | 9/2/05 | rebelbase

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.



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To: Rebelbase

Drain Lake Ponchatrain!


61 posted on 09/03/2005 2:48:08 PM PDT by BurbankKarl (u)
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To: Rebelbase

Today's (Sunday preview) paper carries a story about loss of the barrier islands below NO...over years they have left it more exposed to each new storm.

1. NO is not vital, the port is vital.
2. Abandoning NO after levelling, blowing the levees against ponchitrain, and letting the river reclaim the ground, might create a new barrier for a new NO only a bit farther North.
3. Between automation and improved rail and road systems (for workers and for cargo) the port should be able to function better than today.
4. All this would allow Corps of Engineers to concentrate on making the port safe from storms & flood, and to keep traffic flowing. No need to waste any time and effort on a city that has frankley grown too obscene and crusty to remain much of a tourist destination.


62 posted on 09/03/2005 2:49:25 PM PDT by norton
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To: Torie

The best defense against nature is nature. They have to figure out a way to reclaim barrier islands and marshland while maintaining some semblance of Old Orleans. Call it Venice on Lake Pontchartrain.


63 posted on 09/03/2005 2:51:08 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: wolfpat
Your memory is correct.... If not for the Old River Control Structure etc the Mississippi River would now be flowing down the Atchafalaya into the Gulf of Mexico.....



64 posted on 09/03/2005 2:51:15 PM PDT by deport (If you want something bad enough, there's someone who will sell it to you. Even the truth your way.)
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To: Torie
Nice colors.

Vibrant! And do they tell a tale or what?

65 posted on 09/03/2005 2:52:40 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Eagle Eye

"any building under three stories will need to be condemned and razed due to contamination."

If they use lumber in the fill this will create more problems when it rots. (And creates habitat for their formosa termites.) They should take all lumber from the razed structures and burn it their electrical power plants. (In the coal burning ones anyhow.)


66 posted on 09/03/2005 2:52:59 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Torie
Hong Kong and Japan do indeed get Cat 4 & 5 typhoons. The ocean is below sea level. This was open sea not too long ago:

This problem has a solution if we want to solve it! Of course, you do recall that I am quite a technophile. =)

67 posted on 09/03/2005 2:54:14 PM PDT by AntiGuv ("Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick)
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To: jwalsh07

Having nice little robust swamps between IT and NO is rounding error. NO is sinking because the Mississippi does not flood over its banks anymore and deposit soil. Ecoism is not the panacea for NO. It is the panacea for some things, but not IT.


68 posted on 09/03/2005 2:54:58 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Enchante

well, before they rebuild they have to raise those dikes....shoot, they have already built access roads for two of them....


69 posted on 09/03/2005 2:55:16 PM PDT by BurbankKarl (u)
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To: AntiGuv

Wellll, at least you are consistent in your hostility toward me and my perspective.

LOL.


70 posted on 09/03/2005 2:55:50 PM PDT by Quix (GOD IS LOVE and full of mercy HE IS ALSO JUST & fiercely HOLY. Cultures choosing death shall have it)
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To: AntiGuv
The ocean is below sea level.

Fascinating. I knew those Asians were clever, but I had no idea just how clever they were. :)

71 posted on 09/03/2005 2:56:09 PM PDT by Torie
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To: wolfpat

That's right.
It's natural course would be down the Atchafalaya River.
Where it would come out at the Gulf I don't know, possibly Morgan City.


72 posted on 09/03/2005 2:56:17 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: ryan71

I really feel sorry for the real estate agents there, no listings, no sales, no REO, no BPO's, no foreclosures, OH WAIT, thats probably a good deal for the homeowners going into foreclosure, nothing to foreclose


73 posted on 09/03/2005 2:56:32 PM PDT by SaintDismas (Jest becuz you put yer boots in the oven, don't make it bread)
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To: Siobhan

I don't know for certain but if I had to bet, I'd bet that way.

I still believe Atlanta also is headed for serious devastation. Agree about the disease control center.

And it should be taken away from the puppet master stooges, imho.


74 posted on 09/03/2005 2:56:55 PM PDT by Quix (GOD IS LOVE and full of mercy HE IS ALSO JUST & fiercely HOLY. Cultures choosing death shall have it)
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To: Quix

When a 10.0 earthquake spills the Great Lakes into the Gulf of Mexico I will post a grovelling apology.


75 posted on 09/03/2005 2:57:24 PM PDT by AntiGuv ("Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick)
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To: wolfpat

Here is a link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchafalaya_River


76 posted on 09/03/2005 2:58:37 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: AntiGuv

How nice.

Groveling is unnecesasry as far as I'm concerned. But humility is usually a great strength and asset.

Will be interesting to see just how large the New Madrid turns out to be.

Sooooo many people are convinced that a new gulf will reach all the way up to the great lakes--and given what I feel about that question . . . have just accepted it at above 98% probability that it will happen.


77 posted on 09/03/2005 3:00:07 PM PDT by Quix (GOD IS LOVE and full of mercy HE IS ALSO JUST & fiercely HOLY. Cultures choosing death shall have it)
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To: jwalsh07

You know what pisses me off? I had to read the topo maps myself to find out the story about what was what regarding elevations in NO. The MSM and right wing Fox, and every other ignorant media source, offered up nothing, except to errantly suggest that NO was 10 feet, 15 feet, pick your number, below sea level, until after the storm had passed. Pathetic. They need to hire some more lawyers as media persons. At least we know how to ask the right questions, and do the right research. Granted, we expect more pay, but we are worth every penny - obviously. :)


78 posted on 09/03/2005 3:00:10 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Rebelbase
What about bulldozing it and then filling in on top of that with soil, raising it above sealevel and then building on top of that?
79 posted on 09/03/2005 3:01:32 PM PDT by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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To: Rebelbase

Just redirect the Mississippi river through there. In 20 years it will be full of rich setiment and be the best farmland in the world.


80 posted on 09/03/2005 3:02:10 PM PDT by JustAnotherOkie
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