RE-building after Katrina

[outfished]

I think we've pretty much destroyed the ecology there already with the levy systems put there in the 30's and 40's. Furthur "damming" I think would mean even more destruction of the area. The Discovery channel has a documentary out now that describes in detail the harm we have made there by building levy's that has contributed to a greater destruction of the city's infrastucture. Hundreds if not thousands of acres are lost yearly because of the levy's and not just in Louisiana but all along the entire Mississippi. We need controlled flooding of the plains surrounding the river, which oddly enough creates land by sediment deposits. Don't mess with mother nature, she'll bite you in the arse when given the opportunity.

[Raven]

President Bush says he takes responsibility for the federal government's failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina
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yeah earth dams are a joke...i almost was killed trying to repair our road
when this IDIOT who built an earth dam upstream had it fail and it's water and debris washed out our road...and i was inside the 6 foot high metal culvert under our roadway....
trying to de-clog it and almost drown doing it... so you could say i dont have any confidence in them to say the least.