countrigal
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« on: September 23, 2005, 06:04:35 pm » |
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I'm with those who are thinking that if we have to have it hit land... then let it hit an area that is already hit and no rebuilding and all has started in.
I also go further and think that if it does hit New Orleans, then it should destroy it enough that they don't rebuild and let it go back more natural. A part of the reason that they were at so much risk is because they changed the natural flow of the Mississippi, drying up some of the land which has traditionally been swampland and which offered protection to New Orleans by slowing down the surge from the hurricanes. Also, this drying out of the land, and the fact that New Orleans for the most part was traditionally swampland, is what has caused the city to fall so far below sea level. It wasn't that way when they started to build the city, but that is the way it grew up over the years. I watched a special on TV the other day about this too, and they had a good example of what has occurred in that area. Think of a sponge, and how it looks when it's swollen with water, how thick it is. Then as it dries, it shrinks and compacts. That is what the land has done there, starting out as the thick sponge and then drying out over time and shrinking. Then add all the buildings, skyscrappers, etc, and that compacts the sponge even more.
I think that New Orleans would be New Orleans anywhere it is rebuilt. Most of it is an attitude and the personality of the people of the city, and those can be transferred from one location to another. Rebuild the city, but rebuild it somewhere else, and with the idea of not drying out the sponge that you build on.
Anyway... that's my idea. I know it's not a popular one, but there it is.
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