[Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...]

Of course, in this case, the water that was involved is all contaminated. It’s contaminated with biologicals, with chemicals, the salt water itself.

Does anyone know what the preliminary plans are for getting rid of the water? Clearly the pumps have to be working and the levee repaired.... but there is that niggly problem of the water being so totally polluted. Will it not all have to be totally treated? I can't imagine that it can just be pumped out into the gulf in its present condition.

[Tarpon]

You will never get the stink, mold and mildew out of the wood, no matter how hard you work. Once the wood sits in water for three days or more, burn it.

The houses in Florida are concrete block walls, so the way to save them is to gut them and rebuild from the walls in. A lot, most? of the homes in New Orleans are all wood -- Fix with bulldozer.

[Shazbot29]

[Pessimist]

"If the beams and the two by fours, a common form of lumber.."

Gee... Thanks for deciphering the technical jargon for me.

Kinda tells you something about the writer's perspective and life experiences when he feels compelled to tell us what a 2x4 is.