Re: Is New Orleans finished ?

On 31 Aug 2005 17:16:19 -0700, Winfield Hill
<Winfield_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote...
>>
>> bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx 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?
>
> That's a good point, but so is Bill's point. New Orleans wasn't done
> in by the Hurricane, per se, but rather by a 20-foot-high storm surge
> in Lake Pontchartrain, and by a dike or levee that structurally failed,
> even tho the water was below its top. It's speculated that the levee's
> base failed. We need ways to test these issues. That's something the
> Dutch know a lot about, and we could learn from them. And if we do,
> perhaps we could save 100's of billions of dollars of property loss
> the next time. And, given Bush and our heavy oil-burning CO2 scene,
> there *will* be a next time. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.


Geez Win, do you blame Bush for everything, including a couple
thousand years of C02 creation? You sound like Daniel Schorr of NPR,
who couldn't read a chicken soup recipe without mentioning Watergate
and Iran Contra six or eight times.

You sure are sticking to it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/national/30cycle.html?ei=5065&en=9e0e24b0c5ee1d90&ex=1125979200&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

John

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