It looks like the republicans are settling on Fred Thompson with Duncan Hunter as a back-up if anything happens to Fred. Guiliani and Romney are fading, as I knew they would, McCain and the others are basically gone as well. I had hoped that Haley Barbour would have gotten into the race but he declined. The super job he did for MS compared to LA/New Orleans was day vs night. Anyway, with FT as the candidate from TN, that should pull up all republicans in TN at the very least.
Speaking of New Orleans, some 6 years ago now, after the Des Moines flood, I thought of a solution : a flood road : buoyant road panels, hinged on the landward side to a buried concrete wall and dead man anchors on the sea or river side. Along comes your storm surge/river flood and they float NATURALLY up into a 20’ high seawall. Flood goes away and they float back down into a roadway again as if nothing had happened.
A year and a half ago(dec)I built a table top model, tested it out in a local swimming pool, took photos; sent it off to 22 coastal states governors. Roy Romer of AL was only one to answer, he forwarded it to his FEMA guy who wished me luck in building it for him for FREE. eeeYEAH...FREE.
I’m hoping Fred at the top of the ticket will help us to finally get a GOP House (since Reconstruction 135 years ago, we only reached parity with the rodents once, all the way back in 1968, and elected a GOP House Speaker, but 2 years later, the rodents won narrow control and have used every despicable, GOP-disenfranchising method at their disposal to screw us and the emerging GOP majority). Unfortunately, aside from the RINO Lamar! running for reelection to the Senate (whom I’d like to see replaced by an actual Conservative), it’s unlikely the gerrymandered 5-4 Dem House majority will be changed (it should be 7-2 GOP, with only my Nashville 5th district and Black Memphis’s 9th having rodents).
Fred actually carried ‘Rat-leaning Nashville in his Senate run, as did Frist (who is a Nashvillian), though I’m not so sure he’ll carry Nashville because most of the Dems that would support Republicans have either died off or moved to the neighboring counties (which have become hyper-Republican).
Haley Barbour would’ve also had my support, but the media would’ve done its usual bigoted anti-Southern schtick it employs against Republicans (but is always excepted for slime like Clinton/Gore/Edwards, etc). He’s proven himself to be one of the best and most modern Governors in MS probably in a century, and the state is finally and rapidly moving towards the GOP at the downballot and legislative level (the State Senate is now GOP, something unimaginable just 20 or 30 years ago).
You mentioned about your model and sending pics to coastal Governors. Do you mean Bob Riley of Alabama ? Roy Romer is the former Governor of Colorado. It’s an interesting idea, but more problematic is the situation with housing. Simply put, there should be absolutely ZERO homes built along the coast that are situated below sea level (especially those most prone to hurricane damage or flooding). Now, if some schmuck wants to build there WITHOUT being insured, fine, but otherwise forget it. The 9th Ward in NOLA has no business being rebuilt, period.