Quote:
Originally Posted by Mo_Gearhead
QUOTE: "...it is built below sea level with only dirt walls to protect it from the sea. Stupid design, stupid idea, rebuilding it so it can flood it again is absolutely moronic."
____________________
+1
If you have the mentality to live in such a place, don't cry when the waters
rise.
|
Do you mean like the floods that have recently been ravaging the mid-west?
The "flood" of intellect on this issue is amazing. First, N.O. is where it is for strategic reasons. The mid-west has a farming economy BECAUSE grain can be shipped. Guess where that grain gets put on ships? In case you missed it, only New York ships more goods than N.O. Later, it was found that the oil necessary for a growing country was here in mass volumes. If we'd only had this kind of intellect available then we could have moved the oil & gas deposits to a more suitable location. We probably should have moved the seafood industry inland as well.
O.K. geniuses, here is the cliff notes version of the story. The levees were built by the Corps of Engineers. That's the U.S. Corps of Engineers, not the LA Corps of Engineers. They cheated, they lied, they said that they loved us. The levees were supposed to be cat 3. They resisted upgrades to cat 5 because as was expressed here, who needs N.O.
Katrina hit land as a 4 not a 3. The wind gauge blew off of Boomtown Casino at 167. The surge that came with it was a cat 5 surge and a very large one. All of the horror stories you saw after that were in basically 2 groups. 1 was people wholly dependent on the government, and yes there are too many here. 2 was the criminal element hoping to plunder the city.
Truthfully, neither one of those groups tugs at my heart strings. If you want real stories of people who worked, who struggled to take care of their families & were hosed by insurance companies who had gotten fat for years or rotten a$$ govt bureaucrats, I can tell you some of those.
As far as that arrogant, look down your nose attitude, it feels good until the tables turn. The midwest floods regularly. California, no comment necessary. If LA had not been robbed of it's oil revenues (as was recently corrected in court) by the US govt, levees would have been easily affordable.
Think about me the next time you fill up, Remember, walking sucks.