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New Orleans' Rebuilt Levees "Riddled With Flaws" - 5/7/2007 7:55:03 PM

deadbluebird

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070506-orleans-levees.html

i don't understand how anyone can still believe that our goverment will protect us.

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RE: New Orleans' Rebuilt Levees "Riddled With Flaw... - 5/7/2007 10:55:33 PM

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I'm still annoyed they're rebuilding a city there again. The costs to make a "safe" situation there are steep, to say the least, and still only shots at making the place safe for a temporary period.

I feel culture's maintaining the city and having them rebuild. Still, I'd much rather see tax dollars going to helping these people establish lives that aren't below sea-level in an area effected by huricanes when most predictions are calling for more intense hurricane seasons ahead.

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RE: New Orleans' Rebuilt Levees "Riddled With Flaw... - 5/8/2007 12:02:50 AM

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Ya know, I live in a subtropical desert climate only green because of pipelines from the Colorado River.

Rich idiots buy houses in Malibu.

Malibu catches fire every couple of years.

Peoples rich idiot mansions burn to the ground.

City of Malibu gets sued.

Weird. Like the City of Malibu is responsible for the climate in Southern California.

I dont get it.

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p.s. Before you bash Californians, I would like to point out that people still build houses in Tornado Alley and Florida / Deep South (Hurricane Alley)

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RE: New Orleans' Rebuilt Levees "Riddled With Flaw... - 5/8/2007 1:00:08 AM

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Building below sea-level is riddled with frigin' holes as an idea. Even if you don't accept rising sea levels and an increased frequency of extra violent storms, something big is going to hit a delta or flood plain at least once a century or so.

Poor people live on dangerous ground because it's affordable, some people live there because we have it under control OR the last disaster was a long time ago and there's no way it could happen again... in my lifetime...

Rich people like a view but the view is often on the boundary of dynamic natural forces, like ocean and land. Enormous public expense goes to stabilise and enhance their realestate and there is such a gnashing of teeth when nature reclaims what is hers. You want to live on the edge, be prepared to take the plunge.

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RE: New Orleans' Rebuilt Levees "Riddled With Flaw... - 5/8/2007 1:41:21 AM

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ORIGINAL: Sinergy

Peoples rich idiot mansions burn to the ground.

City of Malibu gets sued.

Weird. Like the City of Malibu is responsible for the climate in Southern California.

That's because the rich are never at fault but the poor are always at fault. That is why the poor are poor!

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RE: New Orleans' Rebuilt Levees "Riddled With Flaw... - 5/8/2007 4:40:36 AM

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I take this as yet more evidence that some people just never learn.

"NEVER TRUST A FED".

At BEST, all they do is waste your money.

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RE: New Orleans' Rebuilt Levees "Riddled With Flaw... - 5/8/2007 7:01:31 AM

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        Living below sea level isn't a choice I would make, but is there really such a thing as a "safe place?" If Mama Nature wants to get you, she will, no matter where you are.

       I'm pretty much flood and tsunami proof where I live. No canyons full of dry brush to funnel a wildfire to my door. Instead, I live a few miles from the San Andreas fault. My old home in Oregon rested on layers of basalt 20-40 feet thick from old lava flows. Should Americans abandon the whole middle of the country because tornados happen there?

     You take your chances wherever you choose to live.

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