[Shotimes] RE: (OT) Insight on Katrina's path

[bjshov8]

That's certainly a good point, and with something that critical someone should
have been building double or triple levies to make sure the city would be
safe.  Unfortunately politicians don't work that way, actually very few people
work that way in "peaceful times".

Remember George Carlin's saying (at least I think he said it):  If you live
downstream from a dam, don't rely on the government inspector, you need to be
up there inspecting that thing yourself.  Similarly if the citizens of NO want
to live there, they shouldn't be begging other people to pay for their levies,
they should be doing it themselves.

I don't know what the situation was like a few weeks ago but it could be that
in the future you won't be able to buy flood insurance in that city.  They
might just refuse to sell it.  A lot of people won't be able to rebuild
without insurance, so something will have to happen differently.

Too bad there isn't a small mountain nearby that they can dig up and use to
raise the level of the city.

> Who was it that was stupid enough to start establishing
> a city in that swampwater below sea level anyway....