From: "Michael Levy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 5:20 AM
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Rita
> 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 enough about the situation to even guess well.
Lee