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HELLO !!
Has anybody watched the tv lately? Do you see what those poor people are going thru.. For them it is a life and death situation.. Maybe we (including me) shouldn't be so concerned about the price of gas right now. Not aimed at anyone in particular, just something to think about.. |
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Fill it with dirt. Raise the houses that can be saved on new
foundations. Make the skyscrapers bottom floor a basement. Then when it happens again, it won't flood everything. And sure, make some canals with longboats for the tourists while you are at it. Might not be as crazy as it sounds. No higher terrain anywhere nearby to move to. |
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"Chris" writes: "sfb" wrote: [...] Some of this reporting has to be taken in context of the fog of war. [...] Fog of war - what crap! No, just a literary technique called "metaphor". - FChE |
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We toured New Orleans in April... It was supposed to be a flying
vacation, but the weather (no surprise there) intervened and we drove... The high spots on the expressway along the West and South sides of Lake Ponchartrain that are now sticking out of the flood on the TV News are roadways we drove along... From New Orleans we drove the coast to Florida (and other places for 4,000 miles)... Many of the bridges, highways and towns now in the news as destroyed we passed through, some of the towns we stopped and visited, had lunch, etc.. I get a knot in the pit of my stomach as I watch the video feeds on CNN... It's a bit hard to comprehend emotionally, though intellectually I understand... If we were rational people we would forbid the flood areas of the hurricane coast for towns, only allow by law dirt roads, grass runways, and fish camps, and forbid any use of public monies for reconstruction after a hurricane... But then, we are not rational and there is not a politician alive with the cajones to bring it up... Instead, the politicians will pour billions of tax dollars into reconstruction of these disaster areas, people will flood back in, and down the road it will all happen over again - and the tax payer who has the smarts to live in a less scenic, boring, but more stable part of the country gets to pay for it all over... And the billions spent reconstructing New Orleans and the coastal flood plains, monies that should have been spent for dredging the intercoastal waterways and harbors and rivers, money that should have been spent on repairing the highways and the deteriorating runways of municipal airports, monies that should have been spent improving the National Parks, monies that should have been spent on hospitals, monies that should have been spent on education, monies that should have been spent securing the borders against illegal penetration, monies that should have been spent insuring that not one freighter enters a U.S. harbor before a complete inspection for terrorist weapons, and on, and on; those monies will have been flushed down the drain rebuilding roads, houses, skyscrapers, domes for multimillionaire athletes who cannot complete a coherent sentence, and of course levees to store water so it can flood New Orleans again, someday... Do you comprehend what even a fraction of 1% of what the politicians are going to give away to rebuild this flood plain would do for GA if applied to airports across the country? There would not be a crumbling ramp or runway left in the country without a shiny, new, surface... Every airstrip, no matter how humble, would have a GPS approach plate... Real time weather feeds to the Garmin 396 in your airplane, and your boat, and your car, would be free, no monthly charge... Aviation charts would be mailed free of charge to every pilot with a valid medical, upon request... And there would be money left over... But then, we are not rational, as I mentioned.. denny |
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Chris wrote: "sfb" wrote in message news:QRoRe.17270$k32.335@trnddc08... That won't be a problem as they need to repair Lake Pontchartrain levees first since they pump into the lake. Some of this reporting has to be taken in context of the fog of war. The AP reports the I-10 bridge damage will shut down long haul east-west traffic totally ignoring that I-12 bypasses New Orleans north of the lake. Fog of war - what crap! After 9/11 "experts" were saying that it could take years to clean up Ground Zero. In the end it took about 9 months. This is the country that built the Panama Canal and put men on the moon in under a decade. *If* we actually agree on getting something done, nobody does it faster than us. -cwk. |
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Do you comprehend what even a fraction of 1% of what the politicians
are going to give away to rebuild this flood plain would do for GA if applied to airports across the country? There would not be a crumbling ramp or runway left in the country without a shiny, new, surface... Every airstrip, no matter how humble, would have a GPS approach plate... Real time weather feeds to the Garmin 396 in your airplane, and your boat, and your car, would be free, no monthly charge... Aviation charts would be mailed free of charge to every pilot with a valid medical, upon request... And there would be money left over... But then, we are not rational, as I mentioned.. Well said, Denny. It is to weep...not for the lost, but for the ones who "get it"... -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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"iflyatiger" wrote in message ... HELLO !! Has anybody watched the tv lately? Do you see what those poor people are going thru.. For them it is a life and death situation.. Maybe we (including me) shouldn't be so concerned about the price of gas right now. Not aimed at anyone in particular, just something to think about.. Yes the citizens of the New Orleans area are indeed suffering and there has been many the off topic post here talking about helping them BUT the price and availability of petro products is going to effect all of us including them. There are some pretty bad worst case scenarios out there. |
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On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:55:29 +0200, Martin Hotze
wrote in :: Michelle P wrote: I just go an email from Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic stating we may be called to fly in supplies to the nearest suitable airport. Looks like I may end up as part of the disaster response. This is a heck of a good chance to show the public (and the media) the worth of GA and those tiny spamcans. Are you suggesting Michelle contact the national news media prior to her Angel Flight flight(s)? Excellent idea. |
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"Hilton" wrote: Just in from AFW: "I just recently was notified that AFSC and AFSE are presently flying rescue workers into the impacted areas." I haven't heard this from AFSE. They have a couple of missions for stranded refugees, but that's it. -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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"Morgans" wrote: We all need to start serious conservation, and NOW. To delay will only make things worse. Agree. An easy conservation move is simply to slow down. I'm driving 55--being passed by heedless nitwits still doing 80--until the current unpleasantness is over. -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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