Was talking to my next door neighbor, a NO native, this AM on the subject.
He recommends, and I agree, that it would do a great job to allow the river
to flow through the damaged area and load it up with silt. while demolishing
the weak structures and covering the low ones. It would also scour the area
of all the nasty flood water currently polluting the area. Just let her rip
for a couple of years and the job is done.

Butch
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On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 13:50:50 GMT, "Butch Davis"
wrote:

Seems to me to be a dreadful waste of resources to attempt to rebuild NO.
Especially in the existing location??? Typically, buildings soaked in
flood
waters for weeks are not economically repairable. High rises being a
noteable exception. Imagine a home soaked to the ceiling in a soup of sea
water, sewage, oil, chemicals, dead bodies, etc. What could possibly be
salvaged from a home like that? Not a currently politically correct idea,
I
know, but logic should prevail at least once every decade or so.

It's certainly necessary to have a port for the lower Mississippi River to
deal with cargo transfers from ocean going vessels to river going vessels
and vice versa. But can't we think of abetter location? Perhaps
somewhere
a couple of feet above sea level?

Could Baton Rouge take over the function?

Nothing against NO and it was a fun and easy place to visit from Mobile
but
it would be hard to find a much worse place for a city on the lower
Mississippi.

Butch



Scrape the place clean and start over!
They have a river there. They should fill the river with barges of
dirt and make a mountain where the bowl used to be. Don't screw around
with the little machines you see on the side of the road. Get strip
mioning dirt haulers in there and git'r done.
They can dyke the French Quarter and a few other historic districts
but they need to raise the areas that the bulk of the population lives
in.