Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeffery, Well, that might be why I live 1100 feet above sea level in a low fault line area with very adequate water supplies. Galveston is the barrier island for the Texas coast and is at most 20 feet above sea level. Cat 4 or 5 storm with a 25 or above storm surge and Galveston ceases to exist. New Orleans is far enough from the coast that storm surges are not the same risk. Not even the rocks live forever, but I don't choose to be a grindstone either. :) Don don.dory@gmail.com On 1/27/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >