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Level42:
--- Quote from: Ken Layton on August 31, 2008, 12:47:31 pm ---It is just plain stupid to rebuild a town that's under sea level to begin with. That's throwing money away.
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It's not IF you make it safe enough....
In fact, 40% of my country would be flooded without dikes etc.because these parts are below sea level:
And that's without storms, let alone hurricanes.
Especialy interesting if you see where the most people live here:
(Yes, we live in the deepest red area).
Of course, we had to learn our lesson before acting as well. In 1953 a large part of the south-west was flooded during a storm and cost 1800 people their lives. After that they started the Delta-works to make our _LOW_ country safe (or as safe as possible ?). To give an idea about how much time it took to complete: they just finished a couple of years ago....
I know Dutch engineers were helping in New Orleans with plans to make it safer, but you can't do it in 3 years I guess.
For all people over there I just hope Gustav will be less terrible than it's predicted now. Our thoughts are with all people in the world that got hit by it....
Special thoughts for Bob and his family:
http://homearcade.org/BBBB/index.html
Blanka:
And what if there's flood. NAP is a very theoretic line. You better draw the line at +5m NAP or something like that. They make fun about Amersfoort aan Zee (at the sea), but a good south-west storm eats Amersfoort as well.
Singapura:
Anyway, with all this global warming (not to mention the housing crisis) I'm glad I sold my house in Lelystad. That place used to be on the bottom of the IJsselmeer :D
Level42:
--- Quote from: Singapura on September 01, 2008, 03:55:23 am ---Anyway, with all this global warming (not to mention the housing crisis) I'm glad I sold my house in Lelystad. That place used to be on the bottom of the IJsselmeer :D
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There is no housing crisis over here Singa. Too many people, too few houses. Won't change. Prices keep increasing (although not as fast as they used to be.)
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Level42 on September 01, 2008, 01:37:25 am ---In fact, 40% of my country would be flooded without dikes etc.because these parts are below sea level:
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Nobody is going to fund the type of effort it would take to make New Orleans that safe. Realistically there is no reason to do so other than being stubborn. There isn't anything of inherent value in that specific plot of land aside from the culture - and that could be relocated. It doesn't help that much of that area was already some of the poorest urban spots in the entire US. It's a cold truth that the rest of the country just isn't going to pay billions of dollars to accomplish what was accomplished where you live. The US is not hurting for space - it's pretty damn big and there are plenty of other places those folks could go without a 30 year feat of engineering.
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