Posted on 09/04/2005 1:24:35 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Everyone is jockeying for position in the 'blame game'. As usual, the bandaid approaches taken over the years did little or nothing to protect the lives of these constituents. Predictably, billions of dollars will be poured in to restore NO to its "previous glory", thus assuring political pocket padding.
The Hard Rock builds a multi-level thing right on the shore and we are surprised it's gone? NO is below sea level and skyscrapers kept being built?
On SAND?
Near WATER on 3 sides?
Writings 1000s of years old warn of this.
No doubt. This affects all of us, not just economies up and down the Mississippi River. I hope this won't be done by committee, like the design of the Space Shuttle and take as many years to approve.
That's what government does best.
They took a gamble.
it is remarkable to me that you could live next to a block of cement which restrains tons and tons of water and NOT leave your house during a hurricane.
guess who initiated the 700 line cutters?
the selfish, irresponsible nitwit of a mayor of new orleans.
The "comments" at LGF are very telling:
The Ray Nagin Memorial Motor Pool
The Ray Nagin Memorial Motor Pool. Hundreds of buses, abandoned and unused during the evacuation, now leaking tons of diesel fuel and motor oil into the already toxic water.
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Now ,everybody start with why it can't possibly be done.
Second idea:hire Dutch engineers .
I read this fine article with the nagging sense that something was missing. Then it hit me -- he neglected to blame President Bush!
I think one of the reasons it was called Coast 2050 was that it couldn't be completed until the year 2050.
It involves diverting the Mississippi back into coastal lowlands and flooding them periodically to create marshes.
It was never contemplated as a quick fix.
Missing from the post you responded to was the fact that those buses were hired and paid for by the hotel well ahead of the evac order. $30,000 had already changed hands. The guests remaining in the hotel were for the large part foreign tourists. In any situation like this its normal to get the foreigners out as soon as possible. We expect it for our citizens traveling over seas and we try to do it for other countries too. They are a big liablility, often with language problems, no understanding of what's going on, and better for everyone that they are gone.
This group wanted to breack the levy not build it. The 14 Billion was to install controlled breaches so they can let water out to help the marshes !
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