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Letter: Rebuild city on higher ground

Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005 | 8:59 a.m.

As time goes on, and disasters fall upon our United States, my firm belief that we love to be led by the mediocre and unimaginative becomes more solidified.

First of all, official reaction to the hurricane drowning our Gulf Coast was delayed by the same folks who hummed and debated while disaster struck before.

Second, of all the hours of news coverage, not one mention of rebuilding New Orleans "upstream" on solid ground has been put forth.

Rebuilding in the volatile bowl of sinking, artificial debris, both the land and the remnants of the city -- all surrounded by unnatural Army Corp of Engineers' mistakes, mismanagement and unnatural dykes and levies (floods of 1993 ring a bell?) -- would be a blunder of the highest illogical thinking.

Hey, Louisiana and Washington D.C., it's not worth it! Move it to higher, secure ground!

JOHN POWERS

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