Subj : Re: "Hams to the Rescue After Katrina" MSNBC News Article
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From : kashe
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 00:35:09

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

On 28 Sep 2005 18:52:24 -0700, 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?

	How much of Death Valley is not below sea level?

	From http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/MichaelLevin.shtml

The hottest temperature on Earth ever recorded most likely occurred in
Death Valley, California during 43 consecutive days between July 6 and
August 17, 1917. During those days, the temperature was over 48
degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit). The national weather service
recorded 56.7 #C (134 #F). The date reported there was July 10, 1913.

The elevation in the lowest point is 86 meters below sea level.

>>
>> 	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?
>
>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.

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