Katrina Rant #3

[slamdunkpro]

Read my response to Niss

I just checked info on the largest earthquakes in contiguous 48 state US history. In the top 15 of recorded history which is around 200 years, these top 15 include Montana, South Carolina, Washington, Oregon, California and pulling down three of the top four spots is MISSOURI! Are all these residents also idiots? Also, now that things are the way they are and all these states including the earthquake hotspots of Alaska and Hawaii are incredibly intertwined and entrenched in out national economy, what do you recommend that they do? And shouldn't all coastal towns, or to be safe let's say 100-200 miles fromt the shore, of all hurricane hotspots be included in the "idiot" category. If not, do you think that you might not be judging New Orleans a bit too harshly just because they happened to be the place that came up snake-eyes in the natural disaster crap shoot? There are so many places throughout the nation that experts have rightly been warning of the precarious position they are in for decades. I'm not saying that you are downright wrong on your views. I just want to give you the whole picture to think about.

[tylerdurden]

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New Orleans was build below sea level over 200 years ago

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New Orleans was not built below sea level. They didn't build a levee around a piece of lake and then pump all the water out. The levees were built (by the french, originally) to route the river around an area that regularly flooded. This prevented the river from depositing fresh sediment in the area, which is the only thing that kept it above sea level in the first place - the sinking is a natural process.

If government had not built the levees in the first place, and such river control had been left to the free market, would New Orleans even exist as we know it today? I doubt a free market would build a single monolithic levee system (a system in which any single failure dooms the entire area) around such a huge area.

Did government set all these people up?

[slamdunkpro]

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If government had not built the levees in the first place, and such river control had been left to the free market, would New Orleans even exist as we know it today? I doubt a free market would build a single monolithic levee system (a system in which any single failure dooms the entire area) around such a huge area.

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Good question

[OtisTheMarsupial]

Slam Dunk,
Where do you live?

[slamdunkpro]

I live near Washington DC.

And you?