Subj : Re: "Hams to the Rescue After Katrina" MSNBC News Article
To   : alt.ham-radio.vhf-uhf,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.dx,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.policy
From : Michael Coslo
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 09:25:52

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

N2EY@AOL.COM wrote:
> Michael Coslo wrote:
> 
>>Cecil Moore wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Matt Osborn wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Maybe we should rebuild New Orleans in England, it would balance the
>>>>scales.
>>>
>>>
>>>We indeed should rebuild New Orleans somewhere that is
>>>not below sea level.
> 
> 
> How about Death Valley?
> 
>>	Absolutely. I don't support money going to rebuilding NO > in it's
>>present spot.
> 
> 
> I agree 100%. But you watch, the money will be poured into it just like
> the water.
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> The levees are dikes, aren't they?

	The Netherlands version of dikes are to levees as a FT-9000 is to a 
Rock Mite. I watched a documentary on the things once, and they are 
quite a feat of engineering. They are considered one of the seven 
woncers of the modern world.

> There are some important other differences.
> 
> It's my understanding that the Dutch built their dikes and filled
> in/pumped out the polders as a way of getting more farmland without
> fighting wars with their neighbors, and as a way of *reducing* storm
> damage. They don't build cities on below-sea-level land. And the way
> they deal with the reclaimed land results in it slowly but surely
> rising, not sinking.
> 
> But they don't put cities there.

http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa033000a.htm

	According to this  link over 60 percent of the population if the 
Netherlands is living beneath sea level.


> --
> 
> There's a bigger problem even than Katrina behind all this...
> 
> Modern technology has made almost anything possible from a theoretical
> point of view. NO could be rebuilt with levees and pumps capable of
> withstanding a Cat 5 storm, for example.
> 
> But the problem is that such solutions, while technically possible, are
> often prohibitively expensive, particularly on a large scale. Not just
> to build, but to maintain. Who is going to pay the taxes so that a
> rebuilt NO can be kept dry?
> 
> Or to put it another way - *why* should NO be built in such a highrisk
> location when there are so many better alternatives?

Darned if I know. I don't want my tax money going to rebuilding it in 
the  same place.

> Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done.
> 
> I wonder if Shrub ever played SimCity?

	The Sims are evil and promote all kinds of sexual abberations.

http://www.electricvenom.com/2005/07/26/sims2-sinful/

	An amazing link, that! I guess we better cover up the  dirty bits on 
the "Justice" statues again.....

	- Mike KB3EIA -

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