Infeasibility of Rebuilding New Orleans(Is anyone listening?)

Pure Energy Systems.com ^ | Sept. 23, 2005 | Paul Noel & Mary-Sue Haliburton

[kellynla]

The President of the United States of America has announced in a theatrically heroic manner that New Orleans will be rebuilt. At first blush, what he has proposed seems like a nice idea.

That is the best that can be said of it.

A wise evaluation of the facts tells us that the horrendously expensive project he has proposed is a fool’s errand. The city is doomed. There is absolutely no hope for it in the long term. Emotionally pleasing as it may be, rebuilding New Orleans prophesies an even worse disaster than what we have just seen. Hurricanes are only a small part of the threats destroying the city.

[kellynla]

"In fact, as reliably reported in the Hunstville Times on Sunday September 11, 2005, breakage of the levees occurred two days before the arrival of Katrina."

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

I agree that parts of New Orleans should not be rebuilt. But this article is full of too much political nonsense, and not enough common sense, to take seriously.

[vpintheak]

Massively large amounts of fill compacted for a reasonably solid base, and then rebuild. And then only some of it.

[L98Fiero]

That guy is weird. Based on his past articles, he appears to believe that oil companies are causing earthquakes and tsunamis.

According to this guy, everybody is wrong but him.

[kellynla]

Move it or lose it...(because all it will take is one well placed IED on one of the levees and we'll have to same mess all over again)

"The Mississippi River should be with all deliberate speed aimed down the Atchafalaya, and an appropriate new port built in that river mouth, with other management issues taken into account?"

[plain talk]

The city is doomed

We're all doomed I tell ya. It will take a long while but the entire city will eventually be rebuilt. If one was about 25 years old and could wait 10-20 years for a return, now would be an excellent time to buy selective properties in N.O. I wish I had to money and time to invest. This is a gift horse buying opportunity over the long term.

[Congressman Billybob]

This pretends to be a factual solution, but isn't. Almost a year ago, in "The Hart-Miller Solution to New Orleans," I gave the solution. There is an unlimited and renewable amount of "fill dirt" in the Mississippi. It would be a 10-year project, but the low areas of NO could be filled until the entire remaining city was ABOVE flood level. Then is would be safe.

This was exactly the process that Galveston used to reconstruct itself after its hurricane/flood of 1905?. And Galveston rebuilt itself without any federal aid.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Which, Being Believed, Was, Whether It Was or Not"

[Jack of all Trades]

What a doofus, everybody knows that the NWO is using HAARP to do that. <;p

[kellynla]

"It would be a 10-year project"
why not just move the city???

[El Gato]

Massively large amounts of fill compacted for a reasonably solid base, and then rebuild. And then only some of it.

There is nothing to put that solid base on. It's much down to the underlying rock, and that's a long, long ways down. Just move it, Fake French Quarter and all, over to the Atchafalaya, but don't allow any housing, retail or warehousing too close to the river. Only enough structures to support the port and the locks that will probably be needed.

[stand4somethin]

"A wise evaluation of the facts tells us that the horrendously expensive project he has proposed is a fool’s errand"

ditto

[El Gato]

Move it or lose it...(because all it will take is one well placed IED on one of the levees

Worse if that IED is placed on the Old River Control Structure. Then the rivers would very very quickly shoot down the Atchafalaya, leaving NO low and dry, and sinking even faster than it is now, and making a mess of the channel that we, the US will need to replace the port of New Orleans.

[bennowens]

Bush said also that we would rebuild the twin towers "in no time".

[El Gato]

There is an unlimited and renewable amount of "fill dirt" in the Mississippi. It would be a 10-year project, but the low areas of NO could be filled until the entire remaining city was ABOVE flood level. Then is would be safe.

Maybe, but you can't build on it while you're filling it, and as you indicate, you'd have to continuously fill it as the weight of the fill caused the base to sink farther into the delta muck.

[kellynla]

Gato, what do you think of the idea:

"The Mississippi River should be with all deliberate speed aimed down the Atchafalaya, and an appropriate new port built in that river mouth, with other management issues taken into account?"

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

"And Galveston rebuilt itself without any federal aid."

As did Chicago, San Francisco, and Johnstown. If the will of the residents is to rebuild, they will. Theirs was, and they were.

[L98Fiero]

"Bush said also that we would rebuild the twin towers "in no time"."

Well he's just a dirty little liar isn't he. Glad we have you around to catch these woppers.

[muawiyah]

So, today we were discussing why it is Jennings County, Indiana has a deposit of gypsum, and not clay, even though it's mostly surrounded on the North by an immense, multi-million year old ocean beach.

Has to do with the days when New Orleans was still called North Vernon, and the head of the Gulf of Mexico sat right there.

There's entirely too much detail on the matter to report all of it here, but the Mississippi Valley has been filling in for a long time. More recently it's been sinking into the muck because all the good stuff is being shipped out to the middle of the Gulf.

[capt. norm]

He goes from stating some important facts and uses all that tos et us up for a shot at the petroleum industry.

This guy has an axe to grind.

[El Gran Salseron]

I have heard of this "Atchafalaya solution" before. The only problem with that is that the Atchafalaya Basin South of I-10 is pretty much in the same condition as the New Orleans area, i.e., swamp land.