Re: OT: sponge burning!

Ron Johnson wrote:

On 02/27/07 18:01, Paul Johnson wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:

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?



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