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This is completely OT for CHL issues, but I wanted to point out a very good source for people offering (or looking for) temporary housing after Katrina.

http://www.MyFamilyCanHelp.com

I'm registered there, offering our spare bedroom. My wife also has a full-time job to offer.

Kevin

SRVA wrote:Each of us is personally responsible for taking care of our selves, our family, and others.

That is the message. The first busload to arrive at the Astrodome were those who didn't wait for the official government evacuation. The commandeered a school bus (apparently with NOPD's blessing), pooled their money to buy fuel, and picked up as many people as they could squeeze in.

National Guard troops from as far away as northern New Hampshire are en route, while Kathleen Blanco and Mary Landrieu collapsed in a quivering blubbering girlheap, paralyzed, and didn't use the resources under their control from the 90% of the state that suffered no damage.

Everyone keeps looking up to the next level of government for help, when they should be looking at their own hands, and their neighbors, and taking action.

My libertarian friends and I are trying to reduce dependence on government. We're trying to create world where the first reaction is not to call the government. Come join us as we try to transform one state that is already strongly libertarian, and spread from there.

Kevin

HighVelocity wrote:The real lesson here is don't build a city below sea level. :?

Can we send the bill to France? They picked the site!

Seriously, though... the city wasn't built below sea level. It sank, as the delta silt naturally does. The normal order would be for the soil to be replenished from the top from spring floods. We built levees and dikes to stop the flooding, which also stopped restoration of the land. Think about it: the areas outside the levees are still above sea level, because they still get flooded every year.

Kevin