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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: one_less who wrote (264374)12/12/2005 11:12:24 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (4) of 1578121
 
"You have not shown that it is necessary or economically beneficial to the common good to re-build NO as it was."

I don't think anyone has made that argument at all. It is possible to raise the lowest areas. Given they did that in Galveston starting over a century ago, we should be able to swing that these days. The city of Galveston went from a mean of about 1 foot above mean high tide to about 8 feet. They dug channels down the street and barges moved the dirt from borrow pits like Offat's Bayou.
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