Re: Is New Orleans finished ?

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:41:38 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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

John, I knew Win was going to be whining all over this, so I was all
reared-up and ready when I returned from my three-day COS design
review.

But you have him under control. Have at him. I'll just sit back and
enjoy ;-)

As for repatriating the "homeless", I vote we send 'em to
Massachusetts. They'd fit right into Roxbury ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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