In this case, though, its just as easy (and realistic) to blame the French, who decided to found New Orleans on known marshland by laying down plankwood and hauling in outside dirt to build an ocean port to moor their ships for easy defense. Now, at the time, nobody had any understanding of the long term implications of it, but history has proven (multiple times) that it wasnt necessarily so bright. That stupid Napoleon ;)
________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j m g Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] It's bad, really bad - Katrina God help those who try and go back. NO is home to about a dozen superfund sites. There's a lot of heavy industry, petro, plastics all around NO. Who know's what's floating around. And why not blame Bush and the Republicans? They've controlled the the executive for 5 years and legislative since Clintons presidency. I'm getting fed up with the neocons and freepers twisting everything around to suit them. On 9/1/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Johnson" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:30 PM Subject: Re: [H] It's bad, really bad - Katrina > housing building codes back then like they do now so to say they're doing > nothing is false. Most of the buildings in the French Quarter & etc have > been there for over a century. I went to an elementary school in NO & was > terrified when I was told that the city was below sea level. I wonder if > it wouldn't be cheaper & faster & safer for everyone to just evacuate the > city totally & permanently. > We had the flood of the century in Albany, GA in 1994 and another big one in 1998 and several smaller ones since. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but how can they not expect another one before they fix up from this one? Let recent statistics be the prophets. Chuck -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
