should galveston/houston be rebuilt??

[rnch]

why should or tax dollars be used to reuild any area below sea level that keeps getting flooded from mother nature?

tawk amongst yo'selves.......



































OF COURSE i don't believe this...just a satire on the IDIOTS who said new orleans should not be rebuilt after the faulty levies built and maintained by the United States Corps of Engineers failed and flooded the city the day after hurricane katrina filled them full of water.

 

[BNG]

I'll maintain the same view as before. If it's below sea level it's a disaster waiting to happen.again and again and.......

 

[nefertiti]

I'll maintain the same view as before. If it's below sea level it's a disaster waiting to happen.again and again and.......

Why should our tax dollars be used to rebuild florida after hurricanes? Cali after quakes? The midwest after tornados? Those people should know better than to live in an area like that!

 

[-SD-]

yes, whats good for chocolate city is good for redneck city.

I will be claiming the cost of 3 cans of fix-a-flat for FEMA and I expect to be compensated with tax dollars

 

[*ebony*]

Why should our tax dollars be used to rebuild florida after hurricanes? Cali after quakes? The midwest after tornados? Those people should know better than to live in an area like that!

i was thinking the same thing, people need a place to live......

 

[gotmilk]

Yes, rebuild so the trash does not move North....

 

[rnch]

and what about all the areas of the mid-west that got flooded this past spring and summer?

 

[nimbus]

they should all have to pay crazy high flood insurance

 

[rnch]

galveston, houston, and florida hurricanes, mid-west tornadoes, california earthquakes...these were all the result of natural disasters.

the flooding of new orleans was an UN-natural disaster, brought on by faulty levies built and maintained by the Unites States Corps of Engineers, a FEDERAL agency.


IF....


IF....

IF the FEDERALLY built and maintained levies had actually been built and maintained to the FEDERALLY PROMISED AND ASSUMED specifications; new orleans would had been high and dry in august of 2005.


tawk amongst yo'selves about FEDERAL liability here.

 

[txbondsman]

Why should our tax dollars be used to rebuild florida after hurricanes? Cali after quakes? The midwest after tornados? Those people should know better than to live in an area like that!

if you live below sea level, and yo shit floods, sorry. If you live on the side of a mountain, and it's known to be a fire area or prone to mudslides, sorry. If you live on the coast and you have hurricane damage, sorry. YOU get insurance if you can get it, but federal dollars, oh HELL no. I don't feel like paying for stupidity OR vanity, whatever keeps you living there.

Here's the reason not to rebuild parts of NO, look at how many feet it's BELOW sea level.

Wikkipedia: New Orleans, Louisiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On the other hand, a report by the American Society of Civil Engineers claims that "New Orleans is subsiding (sinking)":[29]

“ Large portions of Orleans, St. Bernard, and Jefferson parishes are currently below sea level — and continue to sink. New Orleans is built on thousands of feet of soft sand, silt, and clay. Subsidence, or settling of the ground surface, occurs naturally due to the consolidation and oxidation of organic soils (called “marsh” in New Orleans) and local groundwater pumping. In the past, flooding and deposition of sediments from the Mississippi River counterbalanced the natural subsidence, leaving southeast Louisiana at or above sea level. However, due to major flood control structures being built upstream on the Mississippi River and levees being built around New Orleans, fresh layers of sediment are not replenishing the ground lost by subsidence.[29] ”

Vertical cross-section of New Orleans, showing maximum levee height of 23 feet (7 m).A recent study by Tulane and Xavier University notes that 51% of New Orleans is at or above sea level, with the more densely populated areas generally on higher ground. The average elevation of the city is currently between one and two feet (0.5 m) below sea level, with some portions of the city as high as 16 feet (5 m) at the base of the river levee in Uptown and others as low as 10 feet (3 m) below sea level in the farthest reaches of Eastern New Orleans. [30]