Re: Is New Orleans finished ?

<bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1125527996.796318.229970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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.
>
> http://www.thehollandring.com/1953-ramp.shtml
>
> The section of the report talking about the 1995 floods in the east of
> the Netherlands is wrong - there were floods, and there was one very
> dubious dyke (which prompted the precautionary evacuations) but none of
> the serious river dykes actually broke, I was there at the time, and
> would have noticed.
> -----------
> Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

You guys built many additional dykes since then, if I understand correctly,
and a huge swinging door - dyke (never used so far) in the largest port.
The effort and money that went into these dykes is just incredible.

One question, is the soil that you rescue from the sea not too salty to be used
for agriculture?

PS: What the hell's been going on with internet last two days. I hear there are
problems all over europe.

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