Fill Dirt!
In New Orleans, large sections of the city were destroyed by the recent floods after the levee broke during a storm. Almost all of the houses in these areas have to be torn down and rebuilt. Rebuilding them below sea level, paid for by taxes taken from hard working Americans, is really, really stupid. Along the Mississippi river there are always dredges working, loading barges with mud. The Corps of Engineers who runs the dredges is always looking for good places to dump the vast amounts of dirt dredged to keep navigation open. Fixing the current levees and rebuilding homes below sea level is a disaster waiting to happen. Everyone has always known that New Orleans would someday be destroyed by a flood. Living behind a levee is really stupid. Instead, responsible government of the city, state, and nation needs to aggressively fill the area between levees with FILL DIRT! Raise the level of the streets and houses to a few feet ABOVE sea level, as was done in Seattle 100 years ago.
So far, I have heard nobody in the media or from the government talking about a real solution in New Orleans. For all of them Bob has just two words, "FILL DIRT!"
Bob
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Skid Row!!
Bob, recall Lakes High School?
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