Robert M. Gary wrote:
> On Jun 24, 3:26 pm, gatt <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>New Orleans is older than America. Consider that New Orleans was an
>>old city when Chicago burned. New Orleans was an old city when
>>virtually every earthquake hit Los Angeles and San Francisco. They're
>>on fault lines. Tsunami zones....the entire US Pacific coast is an
>>accident waiting to happen, including Alaska and Hawaii.
>
> You may not have heard but New Orleans is below sea level.
You may not have heard but California is on a fault line. Biloxi,
Mobile, Pensacola and Galveston are on the Gulf Coast, at sea level.
>It doesn't make sense to spend tax payer money to rebuild
....San Francisco or Los Angeles again. Or the U.S. Gulf Coast, yeah?
Or Illinois, for that matter. Can you remember when the last time
previous to Katrina that New Orleans flooded? Was it before 1993, which
was the last time Iowa flooded? Iowa's on a flood plain, but, hey,
"they don't need flood insurance."
> None of which have had as difficult time recovering as New Orleans,
> none of which are below sea level.
"They don't need flood insurance."
> We're not still trying to rebuild from Mt. St. Helens but you can bet
> we'll still be trying to rebuild New Orleans in 10 years.
300,000 people didn't live downrange from Mt. St. Helens.
> No, actually in California we have very strict restrictions on where
> we can rebuild.
Yet people still build homes in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Earthquake zones. Can you believe it?
> Explain to me again why it makes sense to rebuild a city underwater.
Explain to me why we rebuilt San Francisco on a fault line.
> I don't recall anyone saying anything about helping people affected by
> natural disasters. I'm talking about the use of federal money to
> *BUILD* a city below sea level; which is what is happening in New
> Orleans.
I don't know when the last time you were in New Orleans was, but, I was
just there not long ago, and old New Orleans is still there. Gulf****t
isn't. Biloxi isn't. In 2007 the Mississippi coast still looked like
Hiro****ma/1945, but, the old Quarter, Garden District and the Central
Business District were still doing really well. Even better this year.
Nobody's *BUILD*ing a city below sea level. Unlike Biloxi, it's still
there. They've already rebuilt the casinos on the beach in Gulf****t
that floated inland and smashed the neighborhood where I used to live.
They're building 'em in FRONT of the old tugboat that floated inland
during and only survived Katrina because the storm surge sunk it.
Nobody's *****ing about Gulf****t/Biloxi. Probably never heard of Ocean
Springs, Pass Christian, Long Beach, Waveland, Pascagoula
> Oh, I didn't realize you are just irrational.
I didn't realize you were Kalifornian. That explains most things.
-c
Oregon
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