First Post!
Movie: Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood.
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Hey we have a FP today.
Why would NO destroy the superdome though?-
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Yeah, it isn't going to cost even more money to move the port of NO to an area that doesn't fllod, along with all of that infrastructure such as rail lines (which is more expensive than barging stuff down the Mississippi, and all of the industrial plants and refineries (which need places for the workers to live), especially since the industrial areas and port suffered minor damage compared to the rest of the city. Heck, some refineries are already fully back online.
But since it makes more sense in the long run to relocate an entire population and build everything from the ground up, we might as well relocate the majority of Florida, because they get nailed by hurricanes all the time and they don't even have time to finish rebuilding before they get damaged again. And everyone in the midwest...well, there is a lot of flooding along those rivers, not to mention tornadoes. Oh, and you guys up in the northeast get blizzards and ice storms every once in a while that cost us billions. And the entire mid/eastern part of the US is extremely vulnerable to a major earthquake on the New Madrid and other fault lines, even more so due to the nature of the geology there and the general lack of preparedness. (Which we know WILL happen, it is just a matter of time.) And don't even get me started on California and the rest of the West. I guess we need to relocate everything to the moon. Or to Hawaii, we have a pretty good handle on the volcanoes there...just don't build down flow of the ones on the Big Island.
Or maybe we can do the right thing for once and actually be proactive instead of reactive...like FEMA was under the previous administration. It's the same idea as going to the doctor for regular checkups, which helps prevent and mitigate diseases.
We can easily mitigate future damage by actually doing smart things like not cutting funding for flood protection. I say we take several hundred million from that Alaska bridge we are building which is a complete waste of money. If we add that to the couple of million Bush authorized for levee repair and improvements we might actually get somewhere. But that would require government to be responsible and not blame the other side or the gays or the terorist or whatever the fuck the new bogeyman is this week. And if we know one thing, that sure isn't going to happen under this current leadership.
Probably won't ever happen, unless people get tired of being led around the nose by the people that bring you those wonderful talking point memos that tell certain media outlets what to report and how to spin it. That goes for both sides, although one side is much better at doing this sort of thing than the other side is.
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I live on a flood plain. The entirety of London and huge chunks of the south of England is built on a flood plain. Flood plains are where you build houses - because they're flat and hills/mountains aren't.
Obviously we don't have hurricanes bearing down on us the whole damn time, but that doesn't mean, but it isn't really as simple as saying "omg flood plain". Humans have populated all sorts of places in this world that by simple logic shouldn't be populated. -
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No, we're not below sea level. The lowest point is 679 above.
http://www.netstate.com/states/geography/ks_geography.htm
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The biggest problem is the way it is designed. The roof is resposible for handling most of the stress in keeping the walls up. So if there is damge to the roof, the building is no longer able to really support itself.
They probably took a look at it, saw the damage, and ran the figures for a clean-up/repair and upgrade job vs. a new stadium that would be capable of withstanding a category 5 for certain, and figured that it made more sense to do this.
Also, this is NO and LA. Someone along the line probably figured there was mucho pocket lining money to be had in doing this. That might just be my cynicism coming out though.
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