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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] I'm watching the news tonight about New Orleans, especially how the levees have broken in several places, flooding pretty much the entire city. The N.O. mayor is saying that the water is not even going to stop rising for a while yet. But already, people seem to be talking about pumping the water out and cleaning up the mess. My question is: [i][b]Why bother?![/b][/i] This hurricane has dramatically proven already that the entire city was a disaster waiting to happen. So many of those houses are already submerged to their rooftops -- they're going to have to be completely razed. Other, taller buildings will probably have to be demolished because their foundations have been compromised, or the supports in the lower floors have been weakened. And that's not even considering the wind and impact damage from the hurricane itself. I'm sincerely hoping that people will manage to emotionally grasp the scope of this disaster and realize that this is one of those few cases where it's [b]not[/b] worth rebuilding in the aftermath. It's not just a matter of building a bigger, better series of levees to keep the water out... there's [i]always[/i] going to be a bigger storm coming along to knock down what we build. And in the case of New Orleans, the potential for flooding is just far too massive, I think, to justify anything more than razing the buildings and moving the vast majority of the city to higher ground. Am I the only one who's thinking along these lines? I know it's a huge undertaking, and I'm not the most experienced to make such a judgment myself, but surely I can't be alone in the belief that sometimes, we just have to let Nature win. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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