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To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (140793)	9/28/2005 6:23:59 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793983

You make very good points. If it were up to me, I would build levee protection sufficient for a 10,000 year storm, like the Dutch did. Obviously, such a project would be quite expensive and would take a very long time to complete. I suppose engineering ingenuity would be required to phase such a project so that it would protect against the typical storms which could be expected to hit while the project is under way. But to answer your question, I doubt that anyone would guarantee that a storm would not cause a lot of damage while the protection is being built. Just one of those things no one can do anything about. Of course, a decision could be made not to build the project, but in my own view that would essentially mean abandoning NO. I'm certainly not in favor of doing so. The choice in my estimation is to design and build a massive hurricane protection system or abandon NO. I see no real worthwhile middle ground.