That's Pre 8-29 Thinking

Gotta keep those resorts open, baby. Among other things.

The scientists and the corps agree on one point: Hurricane Katrina “changed Mississippi’s Gulf Coast forever,” as the corps said in its outline of its proposals, “Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program, Interim Report”.

As the report puts it, “beachfront neighborhoods were leveled entirely, and estimates by officials have calculated that 90 percent of the structures within one-half mile of the coastline were completely destroyed.”

But Dr. Young said the corps’s approach was “designed to let those folks put most of that infrastructure back in place.”

“We have already seen those communities wiped out twice in 37 years,” he went on, referring to Hurricane Camille, in 1969, and Hurricane Katrina. “And it’s not just that the coast of Mississippi is going to have the same vulnerability; the vulnerability is only going to increase because of sea level rise,” which most climate experts agree is accelerating because of global warming.

The proposal that seems to have aroused the most shock and amazement among the geologists would be the most seaward line of defense: a proposal to rebuild offshore barrier islands to their size and shape before Camille, an epic undertaking that would require almost unimaginable amounts of sand, to say nothing of money. “We are in the billions, easily,” said Rebecca Beavers, coastal geology coordinator for the Park Service and another organizer of the G.S.A. session.

When the geologists at the meeting heard about this plan, “some people were quite dismayed,” she said. “Some people were almost incensed...”

Despite all the cheery news about how most of the Gulf's industrial base was and is doing quite fine now thanks to Dear Leader's excellent energy strategery, thank you, a glimmer of what really happened to the industry can be gleaned if you read the .pdfs prepared by the DOE shortly afterwards.

The excuse that this is all going to benefit the Gulf residents is absurd disinformation. Check out oyster's site, or scout prime's blog or her work at First Draft if you don't believe me. The rebuilding is for the oil. The resorts are a fluffy distraction.

You don't get the full Atlantis/ Númenor effect if you don't rebuild the circuses and the oil company infrastructure and let the people drown.