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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 48225"><p>OK2BC I agree with you on some of the folks down there and they are scum. No argument from this quarter. My wife had a good idea and that is to take our the decent folk and leave the scum criminals there and then dump out our other jails into the soap, build up a wall around NO and turn it into the movie scene of Escape From New York. Hey I like it! </p><p> </p><p>Just call me Snake! LOL! </p><p> </p><p>Also no argument that the local folks including their gov't didn't think ahead and plan ahead for the worse case scenario. When I got home last night even though I wanted to go on to bed I watched a program on Discovery concerning the Mississippi River and the lower Delta region. They've known for years and I mean years the levee system wasn't capable of handling this magnitude of storm and to make matters worse the continuous building going on down there and the continuing to levee up and direct the river flow was causing great harm. By not allowing the river to build it's own sediment and delta area laid the framework whereby a major storm had no natural buffer to knock down it's power before striking areas inhabited by people. In essence, they created their own worse nightmare through the engineering marvels of man and over development. </p><p> </p><p>After what I watched last night I think once we get the folks cleared from down there a real serious discussion needs to take place on whether NO should even be built back. It's a hard question and so damn easy for me to ask sitting where I'm sitting but I do beieve someone needs to have the guts to ask it in the public forum and the public needs to have the guts to sit down, not over react, and really look at the situation. </p><p> </p><p>I know many of the people down there are what some might call "city slickers" and don't have some skills like figuring out what one could use as a boat. These are not skills one would normally need where they live but if I was down there I can tell you straight up I'd have already crafted some type of water craft and paddled my way at least out of the flooded city.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 48225"] OK2BC I agree with you on some of the folks down there and they are scum. No argument from this quarter. My wife had a good idea and that is to take our the decent folk and leave the scum criminals there and then dump out our other jails into the soap, build up a wall around NO and turn it into the movie scene of Escape From New York. Hey I like it! Just call me Snake! LOL! Also no argument that the local folks including their gov't didn't think ahead and plan ahead for the worse case scenario. When I got home last night even though I wanted to go on to bed I watched a program on Discovery concerning the Mississippi River and the lower Delta region. They've known for years and I mean years the levee system wasn't capable of handling this magnitude of storm and to make matters worse the continuous building going on down there and the continuing to levee up and direct the river flow was causing great harm. By not allowing the river to build it's own sediment and delta area laid the framework whereby a major storm had no natural buffer to knock down it's power before striking areas inhabited by people. In essence, they created their own worse nightmare through the engineering marvels of man and over development. After what I watched last night I think once we get the folks cleared from down there a real serious discussion needs to take place on whether NO should even be built back. It's a hard question and so damn easy for me to ask sitting where I'm sitting but I do beieve someone needs to have the guts to ask it in the public forum and the public needs to have the guts to sit down, not over react, and really look at the situation. I know many of the people down there are what some might call "city slickers" and don't have some skills like figuring out what one could use as a boat. These are not skills one would normally need where they live but if I was down there I can tell you straight up I'd have already crafted some type of water craft and paddled my way at least out of the flooded city. [/QUOTE]
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