Posted on 09/01/2005 2:22:16 PM PDT by zencat
It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans.
"It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed," the Illinois Republican said in an interview Wednesday with The Daily Herald of Arlington, Ill.
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I have to agree. Rebuild the ports as they are necessary to the plains food chain. Build camps and maybe small towns for the workers and leave the rest as a reminder to never build below sea level. If Al Queda did not pick up some tips here, we may just as well do the job for them. Thee or 4 sell placed charges and this could be duplicated with 12 hours. Take out a few key substations, pumps and breech the levee in 2 or 3 spots. Set the US back another 100 bill.
If all there was to New Orleans was these Rollerballesque losers... the better people mostly got out when the getting was good and those who are left are mostly cowering in attics. I think if, say, there was a tsnunami from Lake Michigan onto Chicago, we'd see something similar.
"what exactly do we "need" about NO, the way it was? I'm not talking about the people, I'm talking about the city itself."
The port is very important .... port of N.O. is the fifth largest port in the world. Only Singapore, Rotterdam, Shanghai and Hong Kong are bigger. By tonnage, something like a quarter of America's exports pass right through the port of NO.
lol. There are risks where most of the US is heavily populated. Including dirty nuke bombs. So do we then say ANY concentration of people is too much of a risk and limit city size?
He's right. Suppose NO were to be hit by another hurricane of this magnitude?
THANK YOU Congressman Hastert
You do not touch the hot stove twice do you?
I'm not sure. But there is a band of higher ground between the two rivers and a band of lower ground suitable for a canal running close to the existing Mississippi channel from the low ground along the Atchafalaya. That IMO is the logical place to build - because it's close enough to surviving NOLA infrastructure to where workers in the new town could commute to it but close enough to a possible Atchafalaya canal that the town would become the primary port once the canal was complete.
How much money was saved by neglecting to do it? Something like $25 million!
Per your post, I've been saying this since the Hurricane happened. Salvage 10 square miles to recreate the old tourist New Orleans. The rest of the city should be built elsewhere.
Sure. But what you are saying would lead us all to build in one spot of the nation. Woe to those who would venture to the coast, or in to hurricane alley. There will always be mother nature to contend with, no matter where one lives. The best we can do is engineer through technology and foresight the best possible way we can to build where the heck we want! New Orleans has been here longer than you and I. I for one want to see her restored to historical beauty. We can do that. We have the technology to make it even better. It is the army corp of engineers one has to fear. If it were private engineers doing the rebuilding, with over sight, N.O. would be as safe as San Francisco, if not more so.
When NOLA was built, it wasn't that way. It subsided.
The Ducth don't have to put up with Cat 5 hurricanes, 160+ mph winds, 20+ foot swells, etc. They do have to put up with Muslim extremists .... but so do we in that regard ....
Second time, using an oven mitt.
I was actually trying to be a smart alec in picking on Chicago. I was thinking about violence, gangs and poverty more than sea levels.
I live in Georgia. I would be willing to put Atlanta on his list too!
And certain parts of LA.
Why? So everyone else can listen to 'em whine and cry when the earthquake hits, the volcano erupts and what water that happened to be there dries up (a tornado is a highly localized event so it doesn't count).
Also, talking about "homes" is different than talking about a "city".
Someone show me the language in the Constitution giving Congress any authority for public charity. I find no justification for such an appropriation in the Constitution.
When any elected member of Congress has the guts to say anything like that, I'll be shocked. That horse left the barn way too long ago. Their oath to uphold the Constitution is nothing more than a farcical formality.
Like somebody said, they could pick another site and build there, but Baton Rouge is already there.
It always nice to go to vacation to a spot where you give a girl some beads and she shows you her titties, then you have another beer and pee in the street ..... [yawn]
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