[FociPhil]

NefCanuck,Sep 7 2005, 04:00 PM Wrote:

FociPhil,Sep 7 2005, 11:56 AM Wrote:They should just evacuate everyone one out, and wait a year till it all disappears or soaks up and then start rebulding/cleaning. The city is FUBAR, just write it off.
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That's easy to say, but you're asking people to just pick up with nothing and move elsewhere and start over. Not something that's easy to accomplish.

Besides, if you let the water simply soak up you run the risk of the ground being so unstable (not to mention contaminated with all manner of crap) that anything you build on it will end up like that castle in "Monty Python & The Holy Grail"

NefCanuck
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Pick up what? They lost everything...most people had nothing, now they have even less. So its their choice if they want to stay in a pool of s**t and chemicals, where your risk of dieing or contracting somethign deadly is increased by 1200%...go for it.

But its like anyone else here said, you pump it out your causing more trouble over a more widespread area. Where as if you let it soak up your keeping it to one place, and you only have to worry about that area, instead of everything downstream, other states and bigger bodies of water, wildlife, plant life etc.

This is the perfect example of a goverment failing its people, too bad that its the united states, the powerful place on earth. Where people go to pursue the "American Dream", and where it takes them 5 days to respond to the biggest natural disaster in their history :rolleyes: