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9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans?
Cr0w T. Trollbot asks: "It looks like New Orleans is going through something very close to the worst case scenario right now. This somewhat prescient study, written well before the hurricane, describes some of the challenges (engineering and otherwise) facing New Orleans. 'In this hypothetical storm scenario, it is estimated that it would take nine weeks to pump the water out of the city, and only then could assessments begin to determine what buildings were habitable or salvageable. Sewer, water, and the extensive forced drainage pumping systems would be damaged. National authorities would be scrambling to build tent cities to house the hundreds of thousands of refugees unable to return to their homes and without other relocation options.' The hypothetical is looking awful close to reality right now. What can be done about draining and rebuilding New Orleans in light of the massive flooding, and what can be done to prevent and/or lessen such disasters in the future?"
And it'd at least be money spent on a mess of our own making instead of Iraq's. Oh wait! That's really our mess, isn't it?
Seriously (not that the current MFU in Iraq isn't serious, it's just seriously off-topic), I wonder if there won't be some Federal limitations on how any loans can be used for reconstruction. As I recall, after the nasty flooding that occurred along the Mississippi some years ago, there were prohibitions on rebuilding in the flood plains. I believe that some small towns no longer exist -- at least not where they used to exist -- because they couldn't rebuild. Not with Federal loans, anyway.
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Your forgetting, this is the U.S. We dont need to CONVINCE libya of anything, we just need to liberate them
you're also forgetting that other countries don't need or deserve our help. Terrible dictators should continue to starve and murder their own people. We should also let them build nuclear weapons..because they won't hurt anyone.
If other countries want freedom, they should get it themselves.
Hope this guy didn't burn any bridges when he left Caltech...
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This is interesting... Texas has had a mysterious increase in the amount of money received coincidentally occuring right around 2001. I see no similar increase for Arkansas occuring in 1993. Although their ratios don't add up for Texas, so I wonder if that isn't wrong.