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Pastimes : Lake New Orleans
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To: Condor who wrote (474)9/6/2005 10:30:24 PM
From: tsigprofit  Read Replies (5) of 1118
 
The French Quarter remains largely dry. I think most should be rebuilt - but to a standard to survive a Strong Cat 5 Future Hurricane, with redundant levees - using Dutch help, and our own best engineers. It must survive a direct hit by Katrina or Camille - based on computer models to satisfy the new requirement. And redundant water pumps. It can be done.

Look - we don't hold a vote when disaster aid is needed for Florida, New York, or California. The whole Gulf Coast is vulnerable to hurricanes like this, as are the Carolinas, and Florida.

To be safe, we could evacuate the first 50 miles of coast from Texas to Alabama - and all of Florida - but that's not going to happen...

There are other areas beneath sea level - heard today that part of Northern California is protected by dikes and levees also - that they know would breach and flood in the Big Earthquake that will happen someday.

Probably the most vulnerable part of the country - not New Orleans or California. Not Florida.

Try Missouri. St Louis and Southern Illinois. The New Madrid area - had the largest earthquake in US history in the 1800s - but was unpopulated then.

To be safe - we could evacuate all of Missouri - maybe half of Illinois.

Not going to happen.

New Orleans is a great city - and it will be repaired, and largely rebuilt.
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