Re: The truth about Lousiana - There Was Nothing ANYONE could do


Alan Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 05:08:19 GMT, Turby <turbosurfer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
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> >The Dutch dikes have broken, yet their cities weren't "doomed." They
> >rebuilt, and built new dikes that will withstand major storms and
> >flooding.
> >http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa033000a.htm
>
> Of course, the Dutch dikes, like our California levees, mostly protect
> cropland. The cities all predate the dikes, and are built on higher
> ground...

Some mention of the Sacramento delta this morning. Apparantly
one thing that happens is that you loose a big hunk of the L.A.
water supply. Apparantly, you get about 1 yr to rebuild, flush
salt water, etc. before the L.A. emergency sources are tapped
out.

Another thing mentioned was the level of disaster the levees
are built to withstand. Quoting from memory, Sacramento delta
~75 year event, New Orleans ~100 year (?), Dutch 1000 year or
better.

The levee problems were forseeable and forseen but funds were
chopped back pretty badly during the federal budgeting process.
Apparantly, one very accurate study of potential damage was
published in Scientific American, unfortunately appearing in
the the Oct. 2001 issue, a month after 9/11.

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