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To: DMaA who wrote (135153)	8/30/2005 9:28:30 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	Respond to of 793549

Do you think it is sustainable as a city site over the long term? those pumps have to run day and night just to stay even just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should... while obviously all of NO cannot be relocated, city planners should be taking a very sobering look at what and WHERE they rebuild housing stock (click on each city's link for more details) sustainable.doe.gov Disaster Planning Success Stories New Pattonsburg, Missouri, once located at the confluence of Big Creek and the Grand River, had been flooded 33 times over the course of the twentieth century. This article describes the efforts of the citizens of New Pattonsburg, following the Great Flood of 1993, to relocate their town and rebuild it on higher ground. Valmeyer, Illinois was relocated and its agricultural sector reconstructed following the Great Flood of 1993, which left 90 percent of Valmeyer’s buildings damaged beyond repair. The reenvisioning of the town and its environs resulted in a number of steps taken to make the new Valmeyer a resource-efficient community. Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin was rebuilt on higher ground nearly 20 years ago, following decades of repeated flooding. The reconstructed Soldiers Grove features town center buildings that are energy-efficient and solar-heated, and the new downtown became the first business district of its kind in the nation. Rhineland, Missouri, following repeated flooding during the spring and summer of 1993, was moved entirely off the Missouri River floodplain. Most of the relocation consisted not of building new homes but of picking up the old ones and moving them to the new site, improving them in the process.

To: DMaA who wrote (135153)	8/30/2005 9:57:20 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793549

New Orleans exists as a port. Has existed as a port for three hundred years. Yes, it is viable. But overwhelmed by poverty at the best of times. Not to mention heat, humidity, roaches, termites, crack, teen pregnancy, illiteracy, you name it. Alcoholism. Diabetes. Poor management. Just got off the phone with one of my friends. He only suffered wind damage yesterday, three windows out, nine shingles off, but this morning the flooding started. Now he's got two feet of water in his house, and it's rising slowly. Nobody knows why. His house is a two story Victorian, post and beam structure, so he should be ok. I hope. Can't imagine what the rest of the city is going through, the ones in the little shacks.