Still wanna rebuild New Orleans?
 

I think we'll be seeing more and more of these monsters in the future:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10...inty/isese.jpg

Re: Still wanna rebuild New Orleans?
 

Your post is lame. But, it does bring up a few questions I've had recently...

WTF does Cuba do? Do these [censored]'ers rebuild ever year or something? It seems like every storm at least partially hits them...

And double WTF?? Was the devil living in NO and get evacuated to Houston? It just seems like someone is trying to finish the job here...

OH! and tripple WTF!?!?! Why the [censored] haven't I made Jell-O recently?!?!?!?!

Re: Still wanna rebuild New Orleans?
 

i watched a special on the discovery channel a little while ago and they where saying that its kinda worthless to rebuild down there because its going to end up being all covered with water soon. I dont know how long soon is but u figure they r lossing how much wet lands a day. They also had some guys that have been doing alot of research say that we havent seen anything yet for storms and we should be seeing something alot worse then the last one with in the next few years.

Re: Still wanna rebuild New Orleans?
 

Cuba get smashed with huge hurricanes all the time. The difference is they actually have executable and coherent emergency plans.

You can fault Castro's gov't on many things, but hurricane planning is something that they have down pat.

Re: Still wanna rebuild New Orleans?
 

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Cuba get smashed with huge hurricanes all the time. The difference is they actually have executable and coherent emergency plans.

You can fault Castro's gov't on many things, but hurricane planning is something that they have down pat.

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What about the structures though? Do they typically survive?

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Cuba get smashed with huge hurricanes all the time. The difference is they actually have executable and coherent emergency plans.

You can fault Castro's gov't on many things, but hurricane planning is something that they have down pat.

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What about the structures though? Do they typically survive?

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Grass huts are fairly easy to rebuild. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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Cuba get smashed with huge hurricanes all the time. The difference is they actually have executable and coherent emergency plans.

You can fault Castro's gov't on many things, but hurricane planning is something that they have down pat.

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Plus Cuba is not built 15FT below sea level.

Re: Still wanna rebuild New Orleans?
 

True, but also remember that they are also one of the poorest nations in the world.

Re: Still wanna rebuild New Orleans?
 

I wouldn't rebuild but that isn't going to happen. But if they do rebuild this is what should be considered. I posted this in OOT a while back:

This is a concept, a concept that might just be totally unfeasible after proper study. But speaking as a civil engineer, I think rebuilding New Orleans at the same elevation is a huge mistake. But for a myriad of socio/economic/historic/sentimental reasons we all know the City will be rebuilt.

And it's obviously not feasible to raise the elevation of the whole footprint of the city and start from scratch. So my idea is to fill only a part of the City, the section closest to Lake Ponchatrain. Pick a width, whether it be one city block wide or more and raze every structure in this area. None of them are probably salvageable anyway.

Have the city take all of the properties by Eminent Domain and compensate the property owners. Then bring in massive quantities of fill and raise the elevation of the entire area a suitable height above the lake. Then rebuild this section of the City at the higher elevation.

There would be no more dike. This new elevation would contain the lake and protect the rest of the City from a future catastropic event.

Re: Still wanna rebuild New Orleans?
 

This thing is getting ugly. Cat-4/140

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA...OAT/IR4/20.jpg