Klarinet Archive - Posting 000024.txt from 2005/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] New Orleans Evacuations
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 22:04:43 -0400

At 09:21 AM 9/2/2005 -0400, Nancy Buckman wrote:
>What I want to know is why we continue to build on a flood plain? And why
>is ANYONE planning to rebuild there? When you play with fire you get
>burned. I know that the City of New Orleans can't be disassembled (even
>though Katrina did a pretty good job of disassembling most of it) and
>moved quickly. But why rebuild there instead of moving and rebuilding in
>a safer place. Where that would be, I don't know, but anywhere is better
>than there.

Yeah, what a dumb place to build a seaport city -- where the country's
largest river enters a gulf on a major ocean. Why did they rebuild San
Francisco where it was (all those hills -- what a dumb place for a
city!)? Or Galveston? Or Los Angeles? Because they are there. I do know
of one case, Valmeyer Illinois, where they finally got tired of the
Mississippi flooding them out every couple of years and abandoned the town
and moved to higher ground but it takes more than a
once-in-hundreds-of-years event to convince people.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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