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To: i-node who wrote (249852)	9/6/2005 2:13:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574482

They can't........they must get the water out of the houses if they are to save them. The longer they sit in water, the greater the chance for irreversible damage. You must be kidding. These houses aren't being "saved". The damage has occurred. The vast majority in heavily flooded areas will be torn down. Many of them will be. Where there is a loss of structural integrity, those houses will have to come down. But in most NO houses the timbers are old......as the wood ages, it puts up a patina that can protect it from the water for a while...plus the weight of the house sits on those timbers, helping to keep them from moving and warping. So long as they don't warp, then the house structurally should be okay. Of course, the NO climate doesn't help much but then I think NO's winters are their drier season. The carpet and wood floors will have to be torn up where water damaged them and maybe some of the walls that were breached by water but the key are the timbers or the structural beams. If they are okay, then the house can be saved. The only houses that mostly like are goners are the ones that had water up to their gutters/roof eaves.......there were a number of them [mainly in the 9th ward] but I don't believe from looking at the video they are the majority. This isn't a situation where, someday, most of these people will be moving back to their homes in New Orleans. A few will. But entire subdivisions will be leveled with bulldozers. I doubt it. When federal money goes in, and the feds begin the reconstruction process, residents will start moving back, or new people will come in to take their place. Within the next two years, NO will be booming with all the constuction going on in that area. Look at FLA, one year after the hurricanes......employment is up 3% YOY [one of the best in the nation] and unemployment is down to 3.8%. More evidence that people still don't comprehend the scope of this disaster. Up next: An insurance crisis. Because before you can build new homes (after the old ones are demolished), you have to be able to insure them at reasonable cost. Before that is done, insurance companies are going to have have reasonable assurance that the levee situation is dealt with. Yup. There is going to be a huge strain on the federal budget.