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Bayou Farewell!
Topic Started: Aug 12 2006, 04:53 AM (273 Views)
Muller
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So i just finished reading Bayou Farewell by Mike Tidwell and it really opened my eyes to something that i never could possibly imagine going on in the US. It talked about how the Louisiana coast is actual sinking- at one point it was losing 40 square miles a YEAR! Quickly this is why it is happeneing:

In 1718 France picks a cozy little spot next to the Mississippi to make New Orleans. Engineers throw up levees all over the place to tame the Mississippi from flooding and destroying the new kick-ass city. Since the river cant flood, all the water was being poored at a rapid rate into the Gulf of Mexico. The silt build up was so strong it started to transform the coast, blah blah blah. Almost 300 years later, most of the marsh land and bays, bayous, and rivers where completely flooded out. The land actually started to sink and the water from the gulf started to take over the land. So enough of that stuff...

In the 1970's, a super genius named Woody Galiano come up with a way to save the coast by building a massive river diversion. It would have cost $14 billion (or 2 weeks in Iraq) but the cost of doing nothing would have been $100 billion in lost jobs, lost infrastructure, lost fishing, lost wildlife, and increased damage from hurricanes.

As much as i want to blame this all on Bush, i can't because it is something the federal government has been aware of for decades. But to put it another way, if the government spent that $14 billion, all the marsh land could have been restored and hurricane's Katrina and Rita wouldn't have hit the coast as hard. Everyone knows all the damage that happened in the area... now the government is facing a $200 billion cleanup bill.

Has anyone here ever hear about the situation before the hurricanes hit?
Is there anyone to blame?
What is actually going on down there right now to prevent this from happening again?
Is there any way to restore the culture that was lost down there? Maybie it's too late.
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No one is to blame. The city was built at a time when our knowledge about the area was some what limited, and that area happens to be an area of high erosion. No big deal.
...Matt was no exception to this. When he stood in the street and noticed his chest started to really hurt again, he made the decision to look down. He screamed like a grown man would scream when that grown man sees a laser burning his chest, and that is like a little girl...
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The real question is 'Why is New Orleans being rebuilt?'
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True, there are a ton of reasons why New Orleans shouldn't be rebuilt, but its not just about the city. It's about what happened to the people living on the coast (try not to just put them off as jobless white trash)

Muller @ Aug 12 2006
04:53 AM
$100 billion in lost jobs, lost infrastructure, lost fishing, lost wildlife, and increased damage from hurricanes.


If you read the book i think you will understand... it's an easy read i definatley recommend it
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After they finish the clean-up, they better do something down there to make sure another Katrina won't happen.
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They should do something so another Katrina doesn't happen again before they finish cleaning up.
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Aug 12 2006, 11:04 AM
The real question is 'Why is New Orleans being rebuilt?'


Another winning post.
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They're rebuilding because a whole lot of people need homes and jobs. On top of that you have the culture and the heritage and the sentimental crap that people are in to.
It will get hit again, it will be rebuilt again. It's a cycle, no biggie.
...Matt was no exception to this. When he stood in the street and noticed his chest started to really hurt again, he made the decision to look down. He screamed like a grown man would scream when that grown man sees a laser burning his chest, and that is like a little girl...
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A VERY expensive cycle.
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Not to mention that I doubt anyone would let it pass. When you have a stationary body such as a country, the natural response to a disaster is to rebuild and return, not move on. I also think a lot of people would be very angry if the cultural aspect of the city isn't rebuilt.
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Muller
Aug 12 2006, 04:15 PM
True, there are a ton of reasons why New Orleans shouldn't be rebuilt, but its not just about the city. It's about what happened to the people living on the coast (try not to just put them off as jobless white trash)

NEW ORLEANS IS A CHOCOLATE CITY!!!

Rebuilding New Orleans is dumb, move it 40 miles upstream and it will be cool.
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Tom Joad Posted @ Aug 13 2006
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Rebuilding New Orleans is dumb, move it 40 miles upstream and it will be cool.


They don't have to move it anywhere if they just build that $14 billion water diversion!!! All the marshland will be reformed. If any mighty hurricanes came roaring in from the gulf the marshland would act as a pilliow and slow it down, or even stop it. By the time most hurricanes reach New Orleans it will be a cute little downpour.

Interesting fact: At one point New Orleans was 50 miles from the coast, but because of the levees preventing the river from flooding, the coast got flooded and today New Orleans is only 20 miles from the coast!

All we have to do is build that diversion and it will go back to 50 miles in only a decade or 2!
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Why don't they want to make the water diversion? I also want more than because it is expensive.
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The situation along the Louisiana coast is considered to be the best kept secret in America. The media didn't say anything about it before, and even now, after the hurricane's they still don't say anything about it. Ever since the 70's when Woody Galiano came up with the idea to save the coast, every person in the political office just swept it under the rug. No one (no one that matters) in DC takes Louisiana seriously because for the last century, all La's politicians have been perceived as crooked (for good reason).

It was not until recently that a politician funded a tiny water diversion way up stream, but they need something much bigger than that to help.

Another reason is because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did "tests" in the region and concluded the land wasn't actually sinking (even though full towns were under water, you could see the telephone poles sticking up above the water, buildings were fully covered, trees were dieing all over the place)

Another reason is because that area is DOMINATED by the oil industry. Everyday new oil is discovered off the coast in the Gulf of Mexico. If a water diversion was made, it would make it impossible for the big oil rigs to get through the marshland. The oil industry would never let this happen.
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