On Mon, 28 May 2007 20:41:35 GMT, Han wrote:

Well, half or so of the Netherlands is below sea level. Yes it gives
problems, but that's why they have engineers. Most of the time it works
very well. Sometimes it doesn't (January 1953 was bad), and a new "plan"
is instituted. Somewhere there is a lesson or two in that experience for
New Orleans.

Most of the Netherlands doesn't have a choice, there's nowhere else to
build. New Orleans does. It's moronic to rebuild somewhere that has
constant problems, as New Orleans always has, when you can build it
somewhere else without those problems.