Subj : Re: "Hams to the Rescue After Katrina" MSNBC News Article
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From : Uncle Ted
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 15:44:28

From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio.vhf-uhf

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:48:15 -0400, Michael Coslo
<mjc5@enoughalready.psu.edu> wrote:


>	Absolutely. I don't support money going to rebuilding NO in it's 
>present spot.
>
>	The French Quarter is okay where it is. It will eventually become an 
>island, and should last for quite a while yet. Seems like a charming way 
>to get to Mardi Gras - by a boat.
>
>	But no matter how much money we pour into th erest of NO, it will sink. 
>I suppose that we could try a Netherlands type approach, with  huge 
>dikes and all, but I doubt that there is enough room on the sides to do 
>that, and besides, the Netherlands doesn't have to worry about 
>hurricanes either.
>
>	- Mike KB3EIA -

I wonder why they don't rebuild New Orleans the way they built Venice,
Italy. Venice was built by people who were trying to get away from
Attila the Hun. Attila wanted farmland, so the nomads of that area
fled and settled in what was a swamp, and they built a city on a
swamp.

(Of course, the first one sank into the swamp, so they built a second
one. THAT one sank into the swamp, so they built a third one. THAT one
burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp...but the fourth
one stayed up!)

Seriously, though, New Orleans as a city of canals has a certain
romantic flair to it.

.