Posted on 03/30/2006 3:15:37 PM PST by NormsRevenge
could flood again and never get done.....
bad location.
But, but ... we want it resolved by the end of the broadcast day.
It surprises me that people are surprised that it is going to take that long. I thought the media and the Mayor of NO were crazy when they were talking about people returning to the city in months. When I was in high school in Germany back in the early 70s they were still making repairs to their cities from WWII.
99% of the problem right there.
Daddy BigBucks Bush just won't stop tryin' to make us BELIEVE that the Feds and plenty of tax dollars can fix anything.
And it is emphatically unviable to put welfare housing in a place where it's expensive to ensure the housing isn't flooded. The welfare types can be warehoused elsewhere
In 25 years it will only be called a recovery if there is a Republician in the Whitehouse. LOL
The real kicker is a few years down the road, if they salvage what they can and rebuild NO, the New Madrid fault is likely to rip and shift the course of the Mississippi and the ports will be of little value anymore.
Call it karma. Ya never know anymore these days. Lots of things are overdue seismically across this nation.
Below-sealevel parasites on the Gulf Coast aren't a priority for anybody I know.
There's a solution to speed the process up, don't allow any rebuilding. NO is below sea level so it's just bewildering why it should be rebuilt just to allow it to happen again.
In Baton Rouge, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco called the nearly tripling of the estimated cost of levee repairs "an outrage." She demanded that Congress come up with the money.
LOL. Think of all the money the crooks are going to steal.
Would it be possible to let some parts of it return to nature and thereby both shorten the length of the levies and restrict reconstruction to higher (less low) ground?
In Baton Rouge, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco called the nearly tripling of the estimated cost of levee repairs "an outrage." She demanded that Congress come up with the money. She said the $3.5 billion investment so far has focused primarily on rebuilding the flood protection on the east bank of New Orleans.
Without the additional cash, Blanco said, the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes likely wouldn't receive the levee repairs needed to give them the protection they had before Katrina.
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Um, the Lower Ninth Ward (as most of the city) is on the East Bank.
Possible indeed, but far too sensible.
I think your remark indicates misunderstanding of the process.
Pilots say there old pilots and bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots.
That is the way with the recovery. There can be carefully managed recovery and there can be very quick, alll stops pulled out recovery.
The public demanded the latter. Waste is implicit in that desire. The answer is never. It is only money and it was used as the public demanded.
I was in eastern Ukraine last November and they still haven't finished!
"New Madrid fault is likely to rip "
Potentially creating massive disaster in the Midwest.
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