WHY ARE WE REBUILDING ANYTHING NEAR THE OCEANFRONT?

[APPLE314]

GLOBAL WARMING WILL SUBMERGE EVERYTHING WE BUILD NEAR SEA LEVEL. EVEN REBUILDING THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IS A FLIGHT OF FANCY UNLESS THEY BUILD IT ON A PEDESTAL OF SAY 100 FEET. 60 FEET OF RISE PUTS THE ISLAND 90% UNDER WATER. ONLY A FEW CEMETERIES WILL BE ABOVE WATER GIVEN THAT MUCH WATER. MY NUMBERS MAY BE OFF BUT MY LOGIC SHOULD BE DEBATED.

[HereSince1628]

1. Think American Venice.

[fasttense]

2. That's why we moved to the mountains. n/t

[IndyOp]

3. I think you have a point. Could you make it in lowercase letters?

I am really, very sorry to say that I think that New Orleans is gone. Rebuilding it exactly as it was should not happen. What should happen? Rebuild it better with a more fair allocation of land and a diversity of housing & business values in each neighborhood. I think there is hope, but that the hope does not lie in rebuilding it exactly as it was. :cry:

[lonestarnot]

9. Maybe the poster likes to shout! I DO!

[Dogmudgeon]

4. CAPS ... CAPS ...

Yes, it's an important issue, but caps are very hard to read.

You may also want to broach this subject in the Environment/Energy forum. I don't recall seeing anything about it over there.

Thanks,

--p!

[lonestarnot]

10. eASIER TO READ! BIGGER!

[Dogmudgeon]

18. THIS IS HUGH!

But my eyes are tired and my last monitor just died.

It was only four months old. Three hundred bucks, like so much piss in a bucket.

--p!

[lonestarnot]

19. Shit Hugh!

Can't you do something re under the warranty?

[Dogmudgeon]

22. Yeah, but the last time it went in, it took three months

Yes, three months to get around to fixing a monitor. Then, when I got it home, it went blank after an hour. It had been in the shop for a total of seven months on three occasions, and they don't give you loaners. And each time I took it into the shop, the process of just logging it in took no less than an hour.

Now I'm unsing a painfully small (15"?) monitor. At least it has a flat screen. It's not too bad for single-program use, but I tend to have a lot of things going on at once. Even writing a little macro code on a cramped screen is annoying.

Three year warranty policy, and I got slightly more than two years use out of it and its replacement.

Seriously, I'll never buy anything from Best Buy or any other electronics store again. The department stores will just give you a new one, no questions asked.

--p!

[aquart]

5. Yup.

I keep looking farewell at my beloved city. My sister swears she's safe on a hilltop in San Diego and we should all move there.

I'm thinking: Poconos.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. I'm in N Central FL

I figure global warming will knock off at least a half hour from the drive to the beach. Heck, I might even end up with ocean front property at this rate.

:sarcasm:

[FloridaPat]

20. When I first moved to Florida, I got a copy of the map by

a psysic that showed what portions of Florida would be under water. Yes, we should be near the ocean soon.

[cassiepriam]

6. Because we are idiots. nt

[hedgehog]

8. Shhh - don't you know that Global Climate Change is only a theory?

It would be very disturbing if we had to think about it.


By the way, remember all the oil refineries in the Delta that had only minor damage last year? Now we're being told that they're still not up to Prue-Katrina capacity. Big oil shut down smaller refineries all over the country in the 70's and 80's and put all their eggs in that basket. Good planning, guys! (By the way, I worked at the old Mobil Oil refinery in Buffalo New York during the blizzard of 1977. The city shut down for a week, but the refinery never missed a beat.)

[bowens43]

11. Because that's where people live.

By your reasoning we shouldn't build anywhere near fault lines, volcanoes,flooding, tornado ally, anywhere that could be hit by a hurricane (my property was devastated by a hurricane and I live 125 miles from the coast),any place prone to mudslides and forest fires etc etc etc

[Media_Lies_Daily]

12. "We" who?

[Skinner]

13. Dude.

Disengage caps-lock.

[LosinIt]

14. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Waterfront Real Estate, Baby. That's where it's at.

[IndyOp]

15. Building waterfront real estate that gets washed away in a year or two...

isn't such a great investment. And, if it has to be, let the filthy richy, rich do it and LOSE that $$$$$$$$$. ;-)

[LosinIt]

17. Yes, I love it when the Rich lose their money, but the poor would too

If we could only train Mother Nature to be more Partisan.

[bananas]

16. half the population lives within 50 miles of the coast

and there are good reasons for that.

[FloridaPat]

21. If I had property on the ocean, I would build there. At this point I

wouldn't put a lot of money into it though. I would love to live on the ocean. I may loose the home to hurricanes and the land to global warming, but then I could loose my home and property to sink holes anywhere in Florida. Or even road construction. Might as well enjoy the scenery.