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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: carranza2 who wrote (67736)9/1/2005 2:48:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (3) of 71178
 
C2, re New Orleans, for some time I've thought that the greenhouse effect sea level rise, if it happens, will be easily accommodated over the century it will take to happen.

As buildings reach the end of their natural life, which is almost always less than a century, they can be replaced [if necessary] with a building further up from sea level.

It looks as though the USA is going to lead the world in showing the way in re-engineering life for the greenhouse era. I note King George II says New Orleans will be rebuilt. That seems dopey to me.

It's below sea level. A hurricane might be pretty disastrous, but imagine what a decent tsunami would do to such places. There would not be a mass evacuation as tsunamis arrive suddenly, unannounced, so there would be vast loss of life as well as huge property destruction.

People do seem to insist in building their houses in hazardous places. In NZ we have Taupo right in the middle of a caldera and Taupo will be destroyed some time. It's not a question of if. It's just a matter of when. I doubt that people will have time to leave because the nature of the phreatomagmatic explosions are sudden, not a slow process like an Auckland scoria eruption.

Surely people won't rebuild in New Orleans. Nature has a malign sense of humour and might do the same in the next year or two. Or even in a couple of weeks [if the hurricane season is not yet finished].

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