A very thoughtful, comprehensive analysis. If you pay taxes in the USA you should read this.

http://www.law.tulane.edu/Houck_CanWeSaveNewOrleans.pdf

B

Thanks for posting that, it was a good and long read! Some things that caught my eye...

at Grand Isle, pre-Katrina, dollars for hurricane damage came to 1.23 MILLION per permanet residence....that's OUR tax dollars at work...just working for somebody else...starting house cost in Grand Isle was 500,000.00! I paid 80k for my place, but of course it's high on a hill and out of the flood plain.....how stupid of me.

13 to 15 feet below sea level and sinking

"the cat got fat, walked out into the street one day and got run over" he was actually talking about his cat...or was he?

"if you want to live in a hurricane coast / flood plain, be our guest, just not our paid guest" or words to that effect.

I keep hearing "the government failed us". I agree. If government hadn't kept bailing them out (literally) New Orleans would have been dead long before Katrina. The Mayor says "private devlepoment should follow Federal efforts" and I say let's try it the other way around for a change....spent your own damn money!

You know if we took all the money we've spent on "protection" we would already have a colony on Mars, where there isn't any water, or air to support intelligent life....oh wait, we've already done that in Louisana.

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Everytime there is a massive hurricane the government has an opportunity to do nothing except clean it up, buy the land and make a park out of it. That I would support.

So called scientists are talking about the increasing severity of hurricanes, which is debatable. What has increased is human activity at the coast line. Banks should refuse to loan money for real estate in tidal surge or hurricane areas unless the property is built to very high standards.

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Not parks, PORTS! Bulldoze the whole city, use the rubble to build an elevated port, let the "city" rebuild up-stream, up-hill...the key word is up, get some elevation!

BTW, I have a coonass cousin in Louisana, he lives in swamps, built his house on an old cargo barge....it floods, he rises with the water level. He is not real social, but at least he is not stupid, he survived just fine. Common sense is real uncommon.

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Mark
1983 300TD Wagon
Even a broken watch is right twice a day

Didn't we have two of the most powerful storms ever recorded inthe Atlantic last season? Katrina and that one that came afterward that actually had lower pressure in the eye? And it seems fairly obvious that higher temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean will mean stronger hurricanes there.

As for so-called scientists, I know some climatologists who work/study at Oregon State here, and they don't pull theories out of hats, they construct them with data. I'm curious about what it is you think constitutes an actual scientist and why you evidently think many climatologists don't fit that definition.

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