On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 11:28:25 -0700, jk wrote:

Cliff wrote:

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:26:01 -0500, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:


The Corps of Engineers seems to have dropped this ball big time.

BUll puckey.

True. It was the republicans, herr shrubbie & the neocns.

Why should it be the federal Governments problem? Why
should they (us) spend to protect a single city against it's own
stupidity?

What part of taxes & "we the people" was unclear?
The Mississippi river is a bit long. And the port of New Orleans
serves a great deal of the US.

And it was the shrubbie that cut out the marsh protections.


Water flows both ways.
Drain the marshes == Storm surges are much worse.
Increase the speed of the Mississippi == Increase sand bars
& the power of the flow to cause the river to wander & form
new channels.
In addition, those marshes *USED* to be areas for things
like fish & shrimp to breed ....

Don't expect much Gulf seafood for a few years ... not to mention
that the Gulf is now a bit toxic ..

A better idea, IF New Orleans is to be rebuilt, is to rebuild it
with many compartments with dikes inbetween.


Crappy Idea, the same one that just failed!

Nope. Compartments. A few might get flooded .....

IF it is to be rebuilt, then rebuild it above sea level, not below.

Umm ..... WHERE are you going to get all the landfill from?

BTW, It's all built on sediment from that river. Perhaps miles
deep.
Water can come UP too.

Think on this one a bit. The "French Quarter" is exactly that.
It was the high spot in the area when the French colonized there,
as it still is today.

How did that high spot get there?
It MIGHT be above a rapidly rising salt dome (the rest
of the area is sinking as the sediment compacts & dewaters).
More likely: It was left by a prior hurricne.

Someone check the geology ...

"Catagory 5" may be just the beginning, in terms of really bad
storms.

Yes build dikes to help with storm surge,

Marshes probably help more if from the Gulf.

and then permanently deny
the area federal flood insurance.

Then raise the post costs & taxes.
--
Cliff