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Originally Posted by Rick V
Well it seems that once again I am wrong, I guess I am just stupid as the Red Baron points out. (very smooth dude)
But the way I see it when you build anything in a flood plain and try and hold back water with a leve you are simply asking for trouble. It doesn't matter what was built, or by whom the fact of the matter is that it is wasted money to keep trying to fight the forces of nature, and water is the hardest part of it to contain. I guess I just kinda look at it from a diff prospective. I don't like lost causes, and I see this as one.
I guess I should have included the IMO phrase in my origional post.
I am so honered to have had the wealth of knowledge from Red Baron placed in front of me. I am now enlightened. Please excuse my ignorance, I will try in the future to not state an opinion, since I know it will ALWAYS be wrong.
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I gave up trying to educate and change a persons opinion on the internet a long time ago. If something is stuipid, I call it what it is. Does that mean I think you're stupid? In general no however on the subject, yes.
You might want to start by researching what the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (akaMRGO) has done in contributing to the situation you saw during Katrina. It was built against the will of the people and has damaged the wet lands beyond the repair Mother Nature provided before it was dug.
Notice where the water came in and when the levees started breaking because of it.
http://www.nola.com/katrina/graphics/flashflood.swf
Had your tax dollars been spent wisely by the Federal Controlled ACOE in building the levees corectlly in addition to heeding the warning from the "dumb cajun's" that said this would happen, Katrina would not even have been a major event for NOLA and you wouldn't be damning the city for it's existense.