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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
In case some didn't notice, New Orleans is in a heap a' trouble. Levees thought to have survived the initial impact of Katrina have been breached, and martial law has been declared. No water, no power and no sewage control. Somebody's going to have to figure out how to house 500,000 people for about a month.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...083000689.html
If you've got a few extra bucks, the Red Cross would not waste them.
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Try more like 3-6. None of the repair/relief workers will be able to stay or base their work locally, either, which will slow things down, well, a lot. It will be like trying to rebuild & repair a mid-sized American city in, oh, Congo, where you've got no power and no passable roads.
It could be longer than that if the flooding/silting causes the Miss. to change course, as it is wont to do but for the levees. Preserving the navigability of the Mississippi will take precedence over fixing the city, not only because you can't really fix anything until that's squared away, but because of its significance to trade in about 2/3 of the country and its necessity for oil imports (& other imports, and exports).
I have money riding with the Mr. as to whether this will result in temporary oil price decreases in the rest of the world (because the US will be able to import less of it).
