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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (266374)12/29/2005 6:26:36 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1575900
 
Again your focusing on one wealthy district and one poor district and ignoring the overall picture. The Garden district was effected less then most of the city. Lakeview was effected to about the same degree as the 9th ward, in other words near total destruction.

And why did the Garden District escape most of the flooding.....its because the wealthy typically live in the best parts of town......the highest elevation or next to a lake or the ocean or on top of a hill

The next to a lake (or other body of water) part increases your risk of flooding. The higher elevation of course does the opposite.


The ninth ward was totally underwater because its the lowest elevation in the city

No it isn't.

"Many of the city's wealthier neighborhoods sit on Lake Pontchartrain in the lowest-lying sector of town, Campanella said. For example, Lakeview, a predominately white neighborhood that contains mansions valued at more than $1 million in addition to crowded streets studded with modest bungalows, fronts the lake and is adjacent to the 17th Street Canal. When the levee collapsed, the neighborhood was destroyed. The only neighborhood with comparable destruction, the Lower 9th Ward, sits on higher ground but was unluckily flanked by two broken levees."

latimes.com
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