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To: Ilaine who wrote (135704)	8/31/2005 12:41:05 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793926

But today's flooding was not caused by the Mississippi River. did you actually bother to read the piece i posted?? (obviously not unless you are the worlds fastest speedreader) the point of the discussion here is that the levee constructed up and down the mississippi have created a situation where NO was more vulnerable to the impact of hurricanes, as it is SINKING because the natural sedimentation process that CREATED that ground has been impacted by the levee system. Were it not for those levees NO would not be a 'bowl' and would not have been nearly so susceptible to this UNNATURAL flooding caused by the breech of levees It owns that land. It created that land by depositing sediment upon it. So that natural flood plain in the Mississippi is 34,000 square miles. The river has -- the mouth of the river has been as far east as the State of Mississippi and as far west almost to Texas. It just goes back and forth. And, as I say, it created all that land. It owns that land. Going back to the levees-only theory, the idea that man could contain that force within a couple of mounds of earth is just ludicrous.