How To Fix The Levy

[fulltitle]

without Prejudice

[David Merrill]

Possibly what George Walker is not telling anybody is that it was stupid to build New Orleans below sea level. At least that is what the natives were telling people 300 years ago (I hear).

The purpose of the sandbags may just be to keep the polluted water from contaminating biosystems in the Gulf of Mexico. There may be no immediate plans to pump out the water over the city. It could take several months to devise a processing plant for that. Everything below sea level is wrecked anyway.

Building New Orleans was stupid. Rebuilding a city below sea level is insane. I know it sounds cold and that New Orleans was a unique and cultural pearl of beauty. But physics is physics. The uphill battle of keeping New Orleans dry has failed and BUSH's promise to rebuild her may very well be an empty promise to save face. I think my opinion is quite pragmatic and would like to think BUSH is realistic the same way. But I would not put it past him to lie; just like the WTC was to be rebuilt or replaced by an even better memorial to 911.


Regards,

David Merrill.

[fulltitle]

Without Prejudice

[Livefire]

Originally Posted by fulltitle

It seems a bit backwards to see people nearly praying to GWB as though he were a god.

That's exactly what he wants and thinks he is! :(

[David Merrill]

Those are many good questions to contemplate Fulltitle. It certainly makes better sense to rebuild above sea level reconstruction projects with priority. Working below sea level seems like you say, to be arrogantly building fountains to technology in the desert.

Upon some research a few years back I attribute the hurricane to nature, compounded somewhat by Global Warming. My concern now is that with the Canal Levy repaired they are pumping the polluted water into a "nearby lake". I would suppose they have been draining that lake of its freshwater in preparation of the new sewage going in. Effectively turning the lake into a cesspool.

If feel if the biosystems around the Mississippi Delta and out into the Gulf of Mexico are killed, this will amplify the possibility of more frequent and severe hurricanes in the nearer future.



Regards,

David Merrill.

[brozer5]

worwdwide; then again there's those Nederlanders who hold off the North Sea; lest half their land would be underwassar.

[weishaupt1776]

Is it a trout?

Last week there was an interesting program on the Science Channel concerning the advancing science of hurricane prediction. It must have been produced a year or two ago, because it focused on what would most likely happen to New Orleans if a catagory 4 or 5 hurricane ever hit the city. The experts most certainly did realize that those levies would not hold back the resulting storm surge! The narrative on this program specifically alluded to those doubts and expectations of levy failure. This program made it very clear that the city lies below sea level and that thousands of lives would/could be lost if and when a powerful hurricane strikes New Orleans. The program even described the "perfect" trajectory in which a hurricane would slam New Orleans while moving Northwest - thus creating the maximum storm surge and flooding every portion of the city below sea level.

A poster on quatloos/ranting and raving - "Born2Win" - wrote about that same television program:

It was an intense experience of 20/20 hindsight focused by a program that demonstrated 20/20 foresight when it was first produced. It is absolutely ridiculous for that city to have been built in that location in the first place. Now they are contemplating rebuilding it???!!! Common sense would indicate that the insurance and charitable contributions would best be used to relocate people to safer ground. But NOOOOOOO. They are going to continue to defy nature by rebuilding in that place - below sea level. How idiotic. It seems more than obvious that the sea has reclaimed that ground. Let's pick up the pieces and move inland to a more sensible location, people.

I concur. And I agree with David Merrill:

Building New Orleans was stupid. Rebuilding a city below sea level is insane. I know it sounds cold and that New Orleans was a unique and cultural pearl of beauty. But physics is physics. The uphill battle of keeping New Orleans dry has failed and BUSH's promise to rebuild her may very well be an empty promise to save face. I think my opinion is quite pragmatic...

I read some quote by GWB recently on another site/blog to the effect that "we had no idea those levies would fail" - NONSENSE!!! That program about hurricane prediction technologies was a RE-RUN!!! And it focused on New Orleans SPECIFICALLY.

But I would hate to the Pres of the USA right now. Damned if ya do... damned if ya don't. If he supports rebuilding there, we and (hopefully) many others possessed of common sense will dub him "stupid" yet again ... and if he speaks out against it, some hue and cry will arise from the idiots who consider New Orleans some cultural icon that must be replaced (groan). The sea has reclaimed it's territory. Clean away the debris and try to referbish the wetlands. That same program, BTW, made another lucid point about the wide stretch of wetlands that used to act as a hurricane buffer zone for the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines.

The only realistic solution would be the refusal of sensible people to return and occupy that "land". If I owned property there right now, I'd take whatever insurance money and FEMA funds that came to me and purchase a home and/or property inland. If people would simply vote with their FEET, the money would follow.