Why were all the RV's left in the flood?
I understand that sometimes you can't move an RV when the water is coming up but it looks like there's a lot of RV's that were just left to flood. I mine were there I'd have moved it up the road and o...
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valhalla360 wrote:toedtoes wrote:mike-s wrote:toedtoes wrote:The Katrina flooding was the federal government's fault. The proximate cause was bad levees. The root cause was not letting the Mississippi follow its natural course, which would be to let it flow out the Atchafalaya. Explanation.
Look back at Katrina and you'll see that a lot of the problems were due to the failure of the infrastructure.
Just wait until nature wins, and the Old River Control Structure fails. That will be a (preventable) catastrophe.
Yes. The infrastructure was messed up. They put levees where they shouldn't be and they let those levees rot. That was the proplem.
Bigger question is why isn't the cost of building and maintaining the levies directly charged to the property owners living in the area protected by the levies?
If you want to build/buy below sea level, good for you but when it fails, you should be the one who pays for it.
This would discourage people from building in silly location or they would do it right to cover the risks.
There are a lot of other uses for that land that is protected by levies. Business operations, public parks, etc. Roads that allow people to move through that area. Agricultural use. And so on.
Levies aren't just to protect homeowners. Many people throughout the region benefit from the infrastructure. For example, the levy that protects me also protects government buildings, commercial businesses, road access to our downtown region (the only direct access from the neighborhoods north of the downtown), the light rail system, railroad tracks, and agricultural land.
Everyone in the region benefits from those. Forcing only the immediate homeowners to pay for the levy that provides access to the downtown for people up to 60 miles away is unfair. Those people benefit just as much from that levy as I do. And how about all the businesses that use the railroad to transport their goods - without the levy, it would take much longer to go around that entire area.
