On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:14:46 -0400 Lee Bell wrote:

The good side may be that there will at last be some $$ spent on the
levee system to prevent repeats in the future.
It would certainly be crazy to spend $$ on rebuilding the city without a
greatly improved protection system to keep water out in the future.
Certainly looks as though they they need to do something new... what
about flood gates like what London has built to prevent a wall of water
coming up the Thames... applied to the entrance to the estuary of NO?
I understand why some people are deciding not to return and to start
over again elsewhere....

> I don't know whether to be glad or sad that New Orleans is under water again.  Glad that we won't have a whole new bunch of unemployed, homeless people or sad that people that can little afford more problems, are getting just that.
> 
> Lee
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sep 23, 2005 5:59 PM
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> Subject: [SCUBA-SE] Rita
> 
> Outer bands are starting to appear in NE Texas.  To my SE it is cloudy
> to the NW clear.  We need the rain but maybe not as much as we are going
> to get.

Michael Levy