[at-l] Gas Prices-effect on Hiking Plans

[gadog430 at charter.net (Gadog430)]

Not only is it below sea level, it is surrounded by water that is not
naturally held by such as by a natural shoreline as with other lakes. It is
forcefully held back.

Hurricane season is not over either. Not by a long shot.
Dawg


----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Daniels" <wdlists@optonline.net>
To: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 10:23 PM
Subject: RE: [at-l] Gas Prices-effect on Hiking Plans


> >
> > I know I am going to be burned in effigy for this, but has
> > anyone thought that maybe this should not be rebuilt? This is
> > a flood plain for one of the largest lakes in the U.S. (half
> > the size of Rhode Island) and one of the largest and most
> > swift rivers in the world. I truly feel for these people that
> > have lost EVERYTHING. This is terrible terrible.But this was
> > a disaster waiting to happen. You can only hold mother nature
> > back for so long before it busts loose. And when it decided
> > to bust loose, no canal or flood wall is going to help in any way.
> >
> > Dawg
> I won't do the burning. Similar thoughts had occurred to me. Perhaps not
as
> strong as "not rebuilt", but certainly some of the considerations should
be
> the cost effectiveness of building in a disaster prone area below
sealevel.
>
> Clearly there is a people problem that may be as large as the physical
> problems, what with the looting and lawlessness of a severely economically
> depressed area. This did not occur in NY on 9/11.
>
> So far they are in disaster recovery mode. I hope someone somewhere is
doing
> some serious long term planning.
>
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