To: stars & stripes forever
""A house built on sand cannot stand against the elements." But they're NOT "built on sand", as you yourself said in the sentence immediately prior to the above quote. It depends on how well the engineers do on designing and building that artificial foundation. And that doesn't just apply to New Orleans. There are buildings in NO that are hundreds of years old.
29 posted on
05/20/2017 10:01:44 AM PDT by
Wonder Warthog
(The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
To: Wonder Warthog
I hope they improved their LEVEES. They didn’t pass the muster during KATRINA that’s for sure.
32 posted on
05/20/2017 10:05:00 AM PDT by
stars & stripes forever
(Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
To: Wonder Warthog
and would have been underwater decades ago were it not for 7 massive pump stations that keep the city dry.
NOLA is 12 feet under sea level.
60 posted on
05/20/2017 11:22:29 AM PDT by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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