This is just the beginning.
Dreaming of a New New Orleans. Besides
the obvious costly long-term engineering improvements, return to more natural
ecosystem, work with technology, rebuild a more diverse creative economy to
balance energy and trade economy, build Green and Renewable,
* # of days engineers and crews expect to need to dry out NOLA: 36-80
Even after these 36-80 days, most buildings will be damaged beyond repair,
if only for the toxic molds that will overgrow every piece of wood in them
in that tropical climate. Perhaps NOLA should simply be abandoned and
left
A smattering of interviews with refugees from NOLA indicate that they don't
want to go back.
Time will tell but it from a public policy point of view NOLA should be rebuilt
elsewhere.
arthur
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christoph Reuss
Amid the reams of copy devoted to the flood story, the day's most insightful
remark came from an unlikely source: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who
said, How can a city under sea level not have an evacuation strategy? In the
months to come, such simple questions will be central to
