Cyli wrote:
On 7 Sep 2005 06:51:30 -0700, "riverman" wrote:

What do you think, the engineers at the ORCS are tearing their hair out
at Bush's promise to 'rebuild New Orleans'. This was their golden
chance to have a permanent solution to the problem of holding back the
Mississippi to spare the city and infrastructure of the lower delta.
They should rebuild the city and refineries at the mouth of the
Atchafalaya, knock out the Old River Control Structure, and bye-bye
worries.

Hello? It was a politician speaking. He could have meant everything
you're suggesting and still call it rebuilding New Orleans. Most
likely he doesn't, but it could be faked.

Hello. :-)

Actually, it was also a banker. Some bank exec said on BBC how it was
inevitable that NO gets rebuilt on the same real estate, because
someone owns each of those plots. If the tenants own it outright, many
will rebuild on it because resale value is too low to sell. Others will
sell to someone who WILL rebuild. If they walk away from a mortgaged
piece, the bank will foreclose and resell to recoup some of their
losses. In any case, the land will have owners, and the owners will
rebuild, although maybe without the economic base of a refinery or mill
in the neighborhood.

I think the only way to avoid that happening, and the city rebuilding
itself peicemeal, would be if they knocked down the levees and the land
was submerged. But I don't think that is in the plans, and the levees
will certainly be rebuilt in Bush2's time, as that is a project that
even he can manage.

The rest will follow.

--riverman
(from tiny acorns, huge oak trees that fall on your car, grow.)