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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] Florida's been struck by about five or six major hurricanes in just a little over a year. It's obviously a danger to people; it just sticks out into the Gulf of Mexico like a toreador shaking a red sheet at the hurricanes. We should abandon it also. Plus, it looks like a wang, and that's just not appropriate for children to look at. Seriously, there's a lot that can be done to New Orleans to make it more resistance to hurricane damage. The Army Corp of Engineers could take a page from the 1900 hurricane that leveled and killed 5,000 on Galveston Island: raise the city. In fact, a good place to get the fill material would be Lake Pontchartrain; with a deeper Lake Pontchartrain, it can contain a larger amount of water generated by the surges and rain runoff. That's on the grand, expensive side of matters. Let's just look at the current flooding. We have levee breaches on the 17th Street Canal. It's a small canal that runs through a neighbor and connects to Lake Pontchartrain. If the terminus of that canal had floodgates, the breach of levee would have just dumped a portion of the canal instead acting as a pipeline for the entire lake. Updated drainage plans, improved pumps, drain to the delta region and swamps rather than the lake, there's a lot of ideas that could be an improvement to New Orleans. Will it make New Orleans perfectly safe? No, but no city on this planet is safe from some disaster. Buildings in California still collapse in earthquakes, but improved building materials and construction codes make it safer than it once was. It comes down to acceptable risk. Even with any improvements, the city will be another flood disaster waiting to happen. But for many people, it's where they want to live, have lived for generations, have built a community, and established an major economic center for the region. It's not just an easy thing to say "Abandon this area and leave", especially in light of mankind's desire to rebuild from destruction. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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