New Orleans repeating deadly levee mistakes »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 2 months ago in NewsSigns are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten a lesson from four decades ago and believe once again that the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper behind.
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 2 months ago
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Maybe it depends on what you mean by 'rebuild'.
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If it just means putting it back like it was before Katrina, that seems pointless.
But if we value our own, and can fix it where it is safe from Hurricanes, we would be foolish not to fix it.
It is a major port; it has vital cultural and historical value, and its time we spent money on building something instead of blowing things up.
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reidgator1 year, 2 months ago
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ADAGUY1 year, 2 months ago
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To start with, I am not a registered anything! But why do you feel everyone is blaming Bush? I don't blame Bush for the hurricane, but I do blame him for the failure to follow through with funds as promised. I blame the federal government for the sh itty conditions that the levies were in in the first place.
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Who do you blame?
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simonsez1 year, 2 months ago
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I agree with crymptyphon that it is worth doing, but it can never be quite the same because so many older rental homes were destroyed that cannot be replaced cheaply enough to support a rental base. I don't know how you resolve this issue.
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