Heavy Rains in New Orleans Flood Recently Recovered Areas

October 24, 2007

  • October 24, 2007 at 7:24 am
    Trish says:
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    If the Dutch can keep the entire country of Holland from flooding (the whole thing is below sea level), it seems we Americans could design a system to keep one city from flooding. New Orleans has a lot of history, culture, music, art, architecture, etc. going for it. I guess our engineers are not as good as the Dutch!

  • October 24, 2007 at 8:42 am
    RAL says:
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    Trish, they are too busy figuring out how they can steal the money.

    The Dutch have a great system that works, why not apply their expertise here.

  • October 24, 2007 at 2:26 am
    Claims Guy says:
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    Some genious decides to build a city below sea level on a water-logged bog. To protect it from nature, they then construct earthen levees and later place large sump pumps underground to keep the Gulf of Mexico out. After years of being battered by severe gulf storms, the levees degrade and the pumps fail during Katrina. The city that was economically depressed before the disaster has never recovered. People and businesses relocated. No new business is going to relocate there. The people who are left are largely those who can’t afford to move and who don’t contribute much to the local economy.

    Now why would anyone of sound mind continue to throw billions of dollars to try to waterproof this place …. AGAIN. This latest article on how a routine rainstorm created some anxious moments proves the place is at risk ….. and always will be.

  • October 24, 2007 at 3:56 am
    Gill Fin says:
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    I can understand building there once. Now that everyone knows its sinking steadily they should move it inland and start over. They won’t though, because they get to use my tax dollars to foolishly stay. Also, the gigantic number of people in New Orleans living in subsidized housing and on welfare, well we can’t ask them to move now can we? That wouldn’t be nice or even politically correct. And thats what we manage to now folks. Welcome to socialism.

  • October 24, 2007 at 4:20 am
    Al says:
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    Here’s a novel thought. Design a “program” to cover the homes of the indigent compliments of the city. No, think about it. Spending about $500 per household is much more cost effective than buidling them new shacks.

  • October 25, 2007 at 4:42 am
    RI Bloke says:
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    The idea of letting people decide where they want to live being related to socialism is ridiculous, the concept of forced removals, as one poster implies, is in fact more akin to communism or is it more reminicent of Germany in 1939? Unless you give these people viable options why would they move.

    It is staggering that the richest country in the world cannot deal with this issue – politically as a nation it would appear there is more appetite for ‘rebuilding’ Iraq than New Orleans – strange.

    Give the Dutch a call before its too late

  • October 24, 2007 at 6:36 am
    Adjuster says:
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    Yeah, I guess they should all move to Calif so their homes can burn down!

  • October 25, 2007 at 8:04 am
    Ray says:
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    How many of the folks flooded from this incident have purchased flood insurance?

    The idea of forced relocation being socialist should also look at the idea of continuing to bail these folks out since they decided to live in harms way without taking the necessary precautions (e.g., buying flood insurance and not depending on the rest of us to cover their losses).

    I am all in favor of letting folks live in New Orleans if they will fully accept the risks they know about. And don’t tell me they didn’t know about the risks. This place is BELOW the level of the river!!

    I like to visit New Orleans but I don’t hold with the idea that the rest of us should pay for them to live there.

  • October 25, 2007 at 5:20 am
    Nigel says:
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    There are two things I can’t stand:
    1) People who are intolerant of other cultures.
    2) The Dutch.

  • October 25, 2007 at 5:54 am
    milo says:
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    I agree. If they want to live there that’s their business. As far as me bailing them out or me paying higher premiums somewhere else in the State because they flooded….. Well ok for a year however i have had enough!



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