Rebuilding New Orleans With Science

EccentricAnomaly writes "The New York Times has a discussion of flood control methods in use in Holland, England, and Bangladesh that could be used in the rebuilding of New Orleans. Of particular interest is the $8 billion Delta Works built by the Netherlands in response to the North Sea flood of 1953, which almost destroyed the city of Rotterdam, but for a heroic captain who plugged a breach in a dike with his ship." From the article: "While scientists hail the power of technology to thwart destructive forces, they note that flood control is a job for nature at least as much as for engineers. Long before anyone built levees and floodgates, barrier islands were serving to block dangerous storm surges. Of course, those islands often fall victim to coastal development."

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Re:after I submitted this...

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I noticed another NYT story on lost cities, which would be interesting to the 'abandon New Orleans' camp:

Somewhere out there there's an article about Iran offering 20 million barrels of petroleum to help out the energy hungry americans. Remember when Saddam Hussein offered assistance to the US after 9/11?

Oh, and Bob Denver has died. Gilligan has finally been delivered.

What do highway and energy bills have to do with

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them blasting the Corps of Engineers for wasting the taxpayers money on flood control projects?