Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com wrote:

ckouza@eudoramail.com wrote:

What causes a levee to break? Why doesn't it just overflow and spill
over ... like my bathtub?

I don't know, but when they start to have Relief Rock Concerts for New
Orleans, it would be a *crime* if they missed covering Don McLean's
_American Pie_.

I have a modest politically incorrect proposal for rebuilding New
Orleans. The parts of town that are submerged to the rooftops should
simple be landfilled to the level of the lake plus, and rebuilt. That
way this won't happen next time.

substantially increasing property values in that parish (once you
figure out what parts of the landfill are projections of the former
parcels), so that the poor people who lived there can sell out to
affluent people at, ahem, windfall profits.

Plus, we create a dandy archeological find for future generations: the
lost submerged city of New Orleans! Land can then be reexcavated in
another massive public works project to uncover lost history.

I think if you looked through history and prehistory you would find
quite a number of precedents for partial or entire settlements becoming
submerged and (unavoidably) abandoned. They are continually being
found just off the coastlines, or under some lake. There was the
ancient city along the north coast of Africa which, if I remember
correctly, more or less slipped into the Mediterranean as a whole after
an earthquake.