To: Wonder Warthog
"Uh, it (NOLA) warn't "below sea level" when it was started. The current depth is the result of several centuries of subsidence , silt deposition, and a number of other factors."Good point, but if NOLA has been sinking all that time then it was not too smart to continue building in a sinking city. You might call this short-sighted real estate development with no long term plan, similar to home building in the western states in areas with intense fire danger.
3,254 posted on
08/29/2005 10:45:00 AM PDT by
carl in alaska
(Blog blog bloggin' on heaven's door.....Kerry's speeches are just one big snore.)
To: carl in alaska
Re: "Good point, but if NOLA has been sinking all that time then it was not too smart to continue building in a sinking city."
Correctomundo, Carl, but look at those folks in San Francisco and Los Angeles... They are truly building on shifting sands...
People are always going to build where they want...
3,271 posted on
08/29/2005 10:48:44 AM PDT by
sonofatpatcher2
(Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: carl in alaska
"Good point, but if NOLA has been sinking all that time then it was not too smart to continue building in a sinking city." No worse than people continuing to build in various places in California (Los Angeles, San Francisco). Or the towns near Vesuvius in Italy.
Humans are incurable optimists.
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