Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey, I'm in the 20% of the city that IS above sea level. Katrina destroyed the other 80%. But not as bad as Galveston got it last century (and they're above sea level). If you look at a color coded relief map, everything from Texas east to the Atlantic will be under water when the North Pole melts down. Nobody lives forever.... > > From: Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> > Date: 2006/01/27 Fri PM 05:12:20 EST > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: Re: [Leica] RE: PAW Week 3 Jeffrey---Nagin > > Jeffery, > With all due respect, it is nuts to live below sea level. Human beings > will > build whatever and stupid humans will do stupid things that will destroy > whatever was built. Maybe not this generation or the next, but at some > point whatever humans build will be knocked down. > > Now, if you you use material that the river brings you to build up above > sea > level while restoring the wetlands south of the Big Easy then you might > have > something. > > As to finance, make it legal to issue two hundred year bonds and finance > them with a severance tax on hydrocarbons passing through the port. A lot > of widows and orphans would like a nice 4% return tax free. :) > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > On 1/27/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote: > > > > And the three levees that failed were holding in water from canals, not > > the gulf, lake, or river. The Army Corps of Engineers constructed flimsy > > canal levees compounded by the mistake of dredging one of the canals to > > below the walls' base. As Feli says, we can more easily protect ourselves > > from flooding than San Francisco can protect itself against earthquakes. > > Or > > the midwest can protect itself against tornados. What we have here is > > political wrangling because the country's budget is a mess and the pres > > has > > painted himself into a corner. > > > > As for space exploration to send mankind to a different universe, we have > > to play the odds here. Let's build better canal walls. ;-) > > > > > > How do you explain the Netherlands then? You can't control earthquakes, > > but you can > > control flooding. The fiasco in New Orleans was the result of decades of > > mismanagement > > and an incompetent, sociopathic presidental administration. > > > > > > Feli > > > > > > > > How do you explain the Netherlands then? You can't control earthquakes, > > but you can control flooding. The fiasco in New Orleans was the result of > > decades of mismanagement and an incompetent, sociopathic presidental > > administration. > > > > > > Feli > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Feli di Giorgio feli2@earthlink.net > > www.elanphotos.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >