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To: Uncle Sham
You profess to care about us but you find one EXCUSE after another to avoid doing anything that might actually help us.

That's bullcrap. I gave legitimate reasons for not rebuilding the city in place. And expressed willingness to spend the money it takes to create a port city further west to deal with the inevitable diversion of the existing Mississippi main channel down the Atchafalaya. NOLA faces FOUR threats - hurricanes, subsidence, river flooding and a loss of the Mississippi - and I believe all four should be dealt with - ONCE.

THAT would help you far more than what you or your political leaders are proposing. What is needed in your state is a reconciliation with reality.

I'm through with this. You are not interested in all in fair debate here, and you are being completely misrepresenting my positions. Which means you fit in quite well with your political leaders.

77 posted on 01/29/2006 8:08:45 AM PST by dirtboy (My new years resolution is to quit using taglines...)
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To: dirtboy
"I gave legitimate reasons for not rebuilding the city in place. And expressed willingness to spend the money it takes to create a port city further west to deal with the inevitable diversion of the existing Mississippi main channel down the Atchafalaya. NOLA faces FOUR threats - hurricanes, subsidence, river flooding and a loss of the Mississippi - and I believe all four should be dealt with - ONCE."

Such a simpleminded solution from someone totally ignorant of the terrain of south Louisiana. There is no place to move, or rebuild a port along the lower Atchafalaya should the Mississippi river be diverted there. Morgan City would be under water, and there is nothing but swamp in the Atchafalaya Basin. How simple, "move the port". Easy to suggest as a quick fix from someone unwilling to get over their own anger and selfishness to even consider that this might not be a possible thing to do. You talk about arrogance. Arrogance is sitting in a snowstorm surrounded house in the middle of wintertime and complaining about the cost of home heating oil. That cost is going to go up. We will solve our own problems whether you like it or not.

79 posted on 01/29/2006 9:45:42 AM PST by Uncle Sham
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