New Orleans WATER-LEVELS

[Martin Einhardt]

Tons of other people access the site with no problems!

Me too with"IE 6.0, 128 bit", W2k.

 

[fRaNk]

Hmmm. Since you have IE... could you check "Internet Properties" (Control
Panel), then 'Connections | LAN Settings | Proxy server | Advanced' ?

I've tried everything and haven given up now. Can someone explain to
me why this is the only webpage I've ever visited which gives me this
problem? There must be something very unusual and non-standard about
it.

fRaNk

 

[Nessie]

I've tried everything and haven given up now. Can someone explain to
me why this is the only webpage I've ever visited which gives me this
problem? There must be something very unusual and non-standard about
it.

As mentioned before, as it works for everyone else it is undoubtedly
something singular and unusual about your settings. Though I understand
your frustration when nothing apparent is to blame.

My advice would be to buy a ruler and then a plane ticket to NO.

;-)

 

[Brian (Groups)]

New Orleans
was a disaster waiting to happen and now they're talking about
rebuilding that shithole that never should have been created in the
first place. What a waste of money that will be. Day before yesterday it
was estimated at one billion dollars, then yesterday 150 billion, who
knows what tomorrow? It's about as idiotic as those coastal mansions in
Florida that they keep rebuilding.
True.

Holland in a hurricane belt..... real smart. At least they should triple
the thickness of the dikes as well as make them twice as high. Of course
it's only a matter of a couple of years before global warming
True.

(i.e.
_thickening of the atmosphere from fossil fuel consumption_)

No valid scientific support for this conjecture.
See the many related links at http://www.junkscience.com/

creates a
hurricane large enough push a surge past such a system.

True.

Brian

 

[Dick Kistler]

Not as simple as that. The southern part of Louisiana is sinking. The silt
laid down by the Mississippi River is compressing as time goes on. Pumping
out oil aggravates the problem, but probably not a lot. Silt that would have
replenished the compressed silt now shoots out into the Gulf of Mexico(and,
by the way winds up on the "beaches" on the upper Texas coast) because the
Mississippi River has levees to prevent flooding upstream. In a geological
sense, therefore, rebuilding New Orleans in place is a waste of time. The
future will either bring a similar hurricane to Katrina, with even worse
consequences, or a slow sinking into the mud(glub, glub, glub). This
scenario has been known for a long time. What is needed is to make the
decision of what parts of N.O. to save, and to let the rest go. However, I
don't think that the will to do so is there(or ever will be). Note: no
mention of global warming was made. Any effects of global warming(higher sea
level, more severe storms) will just make things worse. New Orleans' time
for decisions has come-will the decisions be made?

Dick Kistler

 

[Vic Dura]

New Orleans' time
for decisions has come-will the decisions be made?

No.

 

[John Corliss]

No.

They should give every household where the house was destroyed, fair
market value and tell them to move further inland. Then they should
destroy the levees responsible for flooding those houses and build up
the undamaged levees. In the long run, this would certainly be cheaper
than trying to restore a city that is only going to eventually be wiped
out again.

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