Re: OT: sponge burning!

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 02/28/07 13:01, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
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>> On 02/27/07 18:01, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>> Ron Johnson wrote:
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>>>> On 02/26/07 18:27, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>>>> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:39:40PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
>>>>>>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>> Opening another can of worms, it seems like everyone would be a lot
>>>>> better
>>>>> off if New Orleans was rebuilt further inland.  "But it has all this
>>>>> history!"  So what!  So did most Alaskan villages and towns prior to
>>>>> the
>>>> They are.  It's called Baton Rouge.
>>>>
>>>> But then, the area where N.O. stands is a much better port that
>>>> Baton Rouge, which is 90 mile upriver, and having a *large* port at
>>>> the mouth of the continent's largest river is advantageous to everyone.
>>> So put the port there and the city elsewhere.  Kind of like how they do
>>> it
>>> in Alaska.  Nobody lives in Prudhoe Bay, everybody lives four miles south
>>> on higher ground in Deadhorse...
>> You really need to look at a map before spouting off.
> 
> I did.  Where are you getting that I'm wrong on my geography on that one?

A map of Prudhoe Bay or of the New Orleans region?


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