Nick the Great asked:
Since 1950 there have been numerous books and articles in reputable scientific magazines explaining that the levees cannot hold back the Mississippi River let alone hurricane storm surges. The river will go were the river wants to go. The fact that the state and parishes and the cities have ignored all the warnings and TURNED DOWN federal help repeatedly(to try to reinforce and reconstruct the levees) seems to be lost on everyone within the CORRUPT POLITICAL machine of that state. Why should we be responsible to help rebuild an area that is CONSTANTLY in danger because most of it is BELOW sea level. Also the gulf coast is receeding at a surprising rate and within 50 years that whole area will be underwater from the Gulf of Mexico. Wouldn’t it make more sense to move the city northward only a few miles, but to an area ABOVE sea level. The delta was formed by the meandering of the river and that’s how rivers work. Why fight those forces and dump our money into a WATER HOLE?
In case Holland comes up again it might be well to note that Holland uses concrete and a lot newer technology that the people of that area were happy to pay for. Louisiana has turned down Federal funds because they were required to match these funds, but that was way before Katrina. So NO I don’t feel sorry. Move 40 moles north and rebuild the city there ABOVE SEA LEVEL.
Make that 40 miles!
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Since 1950 there have been numerous books and articles in reputable scientific magazines explaining that the levees cannot hold back the Mississippi River let alone hurricane storm surges. The river will go were the river wants to go. The fact that the state and parishes and the cities have ignored all the warnings and TURNED DOWN federal help repeatedly(to try to reinforce and reconstruct the levees) seems to be lost on everyone within the CORRUPT POLITICAL machine of that state. Why should we be responsible to help rebuild an area that is CONSTANTLY in danger because most of it is BELOW sea level. Also the gulf coast is receeding at a surprising rate and within 50 years that whole area will be underwater from the Gulf of Mexico. Wouldn’t it make more sense to move the city northward only a few miles, but to an area ABOVE sea level. The delta was formed by the meandering of the river and that’s how rivers work. Why fight those forces and dump our money into a WATER HOLE?
In case Holland comes up again it might be well to note that Holland uses concrete and a lot newer technology that the people of that area were happy to pay for. Louisiana has turned down Federal funds because they were required to match these funds, but that was way before Katrina. So NO I don’t feel sorry. Move 40 moles north and rebuild the city there ABOVE SEA LEVEL.
Make that 40 miles!
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New Orleans is like a bowl. The land comes up around it. It was just a matter of time when a hurricane filled that “bowl” with water. There is nowhere for it go to with the Mississippi and the ocean right there. Some of the city should be rebuilt but I think they need to consider that this could all happen again next year. Any money you put in to New Orleans is wasted.
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They are the fleas and tick ******* the blood of the big dog of society.
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I totally agree. I feel that when developers pay their way into being able to build in high risk areas, they should be the ones responsible.
I’m for eminent domain of hurricane beachfront areas as well. Houses flood and are torn apart, and it’s the taxpayer (FEMA), that has to bail these people out because they choose to live in a flood zone or hurricane path.
Do we not realize by now that the waterfront gulf states and Atlantic coastline is dangerous. How many times a year does FEMA have to dish out for these people.
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The reason the Army Corps of Engineers got involved in the entire situation to begin with is that New Orleans has been an important port city to the entire country. I agree that the Mississippi should never have been tampered with from the start, but once started, an obligation exists to those people living in the area, many of which are not metropolitan enough to understand or afford relocation. However, I personally feel it is a huge error to perpetuate the initial mistake. (Plus, once relocated, it is not anyone else’s responsibility to move them back into the area of danger. If they want to go back, they should have to do it at their own expense.)
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First, you must visit the city and then you won’t have to ask the question. The answer is the same for why people live in CA when they know there will be an earthquake, and for those that live on the coast when they know they are exposed to hurricanes, and the people that live in Hawaii that live near volcanos. Simply put, the good outweighs the bad.
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That’s as ridiculous as saying Bangladeshis shouldn’t live in their own country for that same reason and that I shouldn’t live in my state because we know we get devastating earthquakes. Life in a gamble in terms of natural disasters, but decent infrastructure CAN be helped and if other countries can contain even larger amounts of water–we should be able to do the same.
Oh, and in case you couldn’t care less about people whom you presume to be black, brown, and or poor; Holland is 50% below sea level. Guess they should evacuate as well instead of building the best dams in the world.
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And although my response is the most reasonable and logical, I know you’ll ignore it and give someone who agrees with you the “best answer.” That how you propagandists operate.
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What a liar! Back it up. Louisiana had purchased with government money land surrounding New Orleans and built a system to evacuate water in the case of flooding due to hurricanes. The levees were extremely old and the officials that came and went wasted their breaths requesting assistance from the Fed through the Corp of Engineers. All the citizens of New Orleans were under a false sense of calm (pretty much the dumbasses from South Florida are right now over the fact that the hurricane tracking satellite has been up since the 60’s and is inaccurate — you know…. it happens with age.. it’s forty years old! new tech is needed) while beuracracy pervailed.
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As a Louisianian I am deeply offended by the attitude to New Orleans. One hurricane hits and everyone wants to write it off. No one says these things about Florida. Look at how often they are hit. Money, power, and fame we don’t have it and they do so people elsewhere could care less about us. People need to consider, what if it was you?
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How true, how true. All the other places devastated by the actual hurricane Katrina, not faulty levees, have recovered quite well. They’re not complaining about not getting help, these people got off their ***** and started to rebuild. The leadership in New Orleans is to blame for not taking the aid that was offered to them years ago, to repair the levees.