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How about: most of the houses are on 50x75 lots or smaller?
I just read that during the Bush administration, Louisiana has received 1.9
Billion dollars for Corps of Engineer projects, more than second place
California ($1.5B), much of which went to Pork projects like bigger locks
for the Industrial Canal which didn't need them for fading barge traffic
while local residents sued to stop the project.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/125/5602732.html

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"Mike Beede" wrote in message
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"Mike Firth" wrote:

Well, one way is to jack it up and put fill underneath it, which is what
they did in Galveston.
The other is to rebuild it as Fantasyland, moving those buildings that
can
be on wheels (or barges in the case of NO).

I was thinking about that the other day and wondered how much
work it would be. As a back of the envelope, suppose that there
are 1,000,000 residents in 200,000 houses and each house
is on a lot that's 100 x 100 feet and four times that much area
spread across streets, malls, parks, and so forth, and that
it has to be raised 6 feet. That's 20,000 x 200,000 x 4 x 6/27
cubic yards of fill. That comes out to around 3.6 billion
cubic yards. A regular dump truck carries around 15 yards.
That's 240 million trips. I don't know where the nearest fill
would be. Suppose it's only 50 miles away. That's around
500 million man-hours just of dump truck driver time, which at
$15 an hour would be $7 billion. And that's probably the cheap
part, since you have to raise all the buildings, extend utility
lines, repave everything, pay for depreciation and fuel for
the equipment, and so on. I wouldn't be surprised
to find the total was several hundred billion bucks
since as you mentioned the political system has a lot of
friction in it.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea--I'm just saying that human
nature suggests that people won't pay for it and people will
insist on moving back anyway. Hopefully they can at least
make sure there's adequate transport available in the future,
but I wouldn't bet even money on it.

Mike Beede