On Sunday 11 September 2005 01:22, Winsor Crosby wrote:
> Geez. New Orleans is older than the United States. It was not built
> below sea level. It has subsided.
Good point: a major contributing factor to the subsidence are the
flood-control levees, which don't allow the subsiding land to be replenished
with flood-borne sediments.
Now there is the opportunity to not rebuild the mostly destroyed city, saving
expense of long-term counterproductive flood control measures. I expect that
hubris disguised in the rhetoric of solidarity ("The courageous people of
great city of New Orleans will rebuild!") will prevail. As if nature were a
personal enemy to whom some point of defiance could be addressed.
--
Parzival Herzog
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