"BottleBob" wrote in message
...
After reading literally hundreds of posts on the New Orleans
situation
that have mostly been limited to essentially acrimonious finger pointing
of one sort or another and not worth the time to respond to... here are
two posts (the one by Pope Secola VI and the one by Bruce Bergman) that
seem to be positive attempts at actually trying to provide solutions to
the
problem of rebuilding New Orleans so a repeat of the current type of
disaster is minimized.
THESE are the sorts of constructive posts I would EXPECT from
intelligent people
used to solving problems in the machining/mechanical trades, as opposed
to puerile whining about which political party's fault it is that the
disaster happened.
We've even got posters wishing people of different political ideologies
were dead, Jeeze, are they just trolling or are they really
psychopathic?


The Japanese built "Kansai International Airport" on a man-made
island
5 kilometers out to sea.

http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e...ix/kiindex.htm

I'm sure we could use similar, or even improved, construction
methods
to rebuild New Orleans above sea level.

--
BottleBob
http://home.earthlink.net/~bottlbob

Bob,
All the posts about the Katrina disaster are really depressing. It is
amazing how many people refuse to take responsibility for anything, then
want to point the finger at everyone else. Then there are the people that
say those people should have been prepared. I live in NJ, I can assure that
we are not prepared for the enormous earthquake that the earthquake
scientists say is about 50 years overdue. We are not prepared for the
Tsunami that the experts say will come when the mountain on the other side
of the Atlantic falls into the sea. We are not prepared for the asteroid
that could wipe out human life as we know it. The people in California are
not prepared for a Typhoon of the magnitude of Katrina. The people of the
Pacific North West near Seattle are not prepared for the almost guaranteed
eruption of Mt Rainier, nor are they prepared for earthquakes. I haven't
heard of anyone anywhere that is prepared for the huge burp of methane that
could come out of undersea deposits and snuff out life over a huge area.

However there is something that everyone rich and poor can do. We can all
give within the limits of own resources, without worrying whether some or
all of it will somehow get wasted. Because the fact is that much of it will
get wasted. That's the nature of disasters of all kinds, the incredible
waste that occurs. In return you get the only thing you may be left with
when your turn comes, hope. Hope that somehow you will survive, that life
will go on, and the lucky people that aren't there with you will contribute
without hesitation to help.

Gary H. Lucas