Re: Is New Orleans finished ?

"Dirk Bruere at Neopax" wrote ...
> bill.sloman wrote:
>
>> New Orleans is fixable.
>>
>> Most of the western side of the Netherlans is below sea level, and a
>> chunk of it flooded in 1953. They fixed the dykes and pumped the water
>> out - so can you.
>
> How would Holland fare if subjected to huge hurricanes periodically?

And the hurricane cycle is on the rise again...

"And thus an active Atlantic hurricane era may be under way, similar to that
last seen from the late 1920s to the late 1960s."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/20/MN47915.DTL

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2001/200109205219.html

>>500,000 more per Google


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