jim
--- Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 01, 2005 6:15 AM [PDT],
> Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > Very unlikely. The Mississippi river is the
> largest transportation
> > route in this country that moves billions tons of
> goods from the sea
> > to the center of this land and vice versa. It's
> got to have a large
> > port at its mouth - hurricanes or not. NO might
> not be rebuilt in
> > the shape it existed, as for example it happened
> to the city of Santa
> > Cruz, CA after the 1989 quake - a hippie town that
> was rebuilt as an
> > outdoor suburban mall (yuk!) - but it will
> certainly be rebuilt as a
> > port and industrial city in one form or another.
> >
> > Wojtek
> >
>
> Worse.... The "suburbans" themselves came to the
> mall, and stayed.
> The earthquake was used as a reason to re-develop
> Santa Cruz in
> a completely ..."soul-less" consumer manner. No
> vision of community
> or future, a dysjunction in the history of the town
> that was ruthlessly
> abused by so-called "progressives"
>
> If Santa Cruz is some kind of model for the future
> of New Orleans
> (if it IS recoverable to any degree), New Orleans
> will never see a
> real Mardi Gras again... But it will have it's "cash
> cow", the port.
>
> Leigh
> www.leighm.net
>
>
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