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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (248177)8/30/2005 8:46:10 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (3) of 1574055
 
"It was one of Americas few great cities. Top five, on anyones list. "

I agree. And certainly there will be those who will want to, despite the costs. But that whole area is unsustainable. The Mississippi river has been trying to shift its banks for decades. The only thing keeping the Mississippi from changing to its other traditional stream bed, the Atchafalaya, is the Huey P. Long Spillway. The delta has extended to the point that the river just isn't flowing correctly any more. The change in elevation isn't enough any more. And that means it is more prone to flooding than it normally would, so to control that they build the levees up, which effectively flattens the slope more, etc. At some point, we won't be able to engineer our way out of a problem and then everything goes away abruptly.

Its not only that........the whole Louisiana coastline is sinking as the water rises. They've lost significant footage over the past two decades. Whether global warming is real or not, what's true is that the icecaps are melting. If that continues, then the Gulf of Mexico will continue to rise encroach on the state and NO.

Even if they do rebuild NO, they have to lessen its importance. You can't have a city that produces a third of the nations oil be so vulnerable. It doesn't make sense.

ted
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