Craig Colten
Craig Colten
dakota drive fuel louisiana north people sacrificed
Louisiana has sacrificed its coastline so those people in North Dakota can have fuel oil, so they can drive their vehicles.
means rebuilding walls
Rebuilding here means so much more than walls and roofs and levees.
areas lowest
The lowest of the low areas probably shouldn't be redeveloped,
canada group moved moving precedent uprooted vietnamese
The Cajuns uprooted from Canada and moved as a group to Louisiana. Vietnamese communities have reassembled after moving much farther. There is precedent for doing this,
component human national
It demonstrated the inadequacies of the human component on a national level.
takes
The whole thing takes a long, long time.
cause false tendency
Levees have a tendency to cause a false sense of security.
abandon good lower
That may be good because we may be able to abandon some of those lower areas.
areas chosen control flows goes hardest high people resources saying water
Out West, there is a saying that water flows to money. But in New Orleans, water flows away from money. Those with resources who control where the drainage goes have always chosen to live on the high ground. So the people in the low areas were hardest hit.
based driving people plan
The evacuation plan was really based on people driving out. They didn't have buses. They didn't have trains.
based driving people plan
The evacuation plan was really based on people driving out, ... They didn't have buses. They didn't have trains.
build last tend
We tend to build for the last storm.
areas collect flood lower places retention
We need to use some of these lower areas as flood retention areas, as places to collect the hazards.
darn good homes lower talk
We shouldn't talk about bulldozing the Lower 9th Ward. There are some homes that are still in pretty darn good shape,