Posted on 09/13/2005 7:48:55 AM PDT by Willie Green
At the moment, rescue and relocation are the primary concerns along the Gulf Coast ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. In time restoration will become the leading issue.
Most property owners from Mobile, Ala., to New Orleans will want their buildings repaired or replaced. They will seek to recreate the past instead of looking to the future.
A more comprehensive approach is appropriate. Let's consider the Gulf Coast as a region, centered on New Orleans, that stretches from Florida to Texas. This area is highly attractive for an extraordinary variety of commercial and recreational purposes. It also is hurricane prone.
Given what we know today about urban design, would we develop Mississippi cities like Biloxi, Gulfport or Pass Christian, or even New Orleans as we did in the past?
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What? Use their own money? Bite your tongue! The refuges of NO have it all coming to them, and we should pay for it all! /sarcasm
You want to pass the hat or are you going to point the gun and take it like usual?
Not that farfetched. It was done over a hundred years ago in Galveston, with much more primitive equipment than is available now. There is continuous dredging on the Mississippi river, to remove sandbars and other impediments to river traffic. Load it into barges and unload it in NOLA. Decide ahead of time what is to be kept and what is to be buried. Jack up what is worth saving, fill in underneath. Level the rest.
The necessity for NOLA as a port is overrated
You're showing a certain naivete here. Texas is grand, but untold tons of goods still travel down the Mississippi River, which in the 21st century is still vital. The Mississippi doesn't run through Texas. Like it or not, the Mississippi Delta is in Louisana, not Texas or Florida.
Thanks.
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