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The flood risk anywhere near the Mississippi River would be unacceptable.
by idlewords 9y ago
The flood risk anywhere near the Mississippi River would be unacceptable.
- logfromblammo 9y agoDisney World was built in a swamp. Money and time solve all engineering problems.
- idlewords 9y agoHow foolish of me! For best results, they'll want to build the 90-foot levee to surround the local airport, power plant, hospital, and resort hotels, too. http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/1d/51dc4dba-811d-523d-a826-fe6db2e1c71f/54b968a9a60ed.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C809 http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/con...
- logfromblammo 9y agoI suppose the unacceptable flood risks are why the Mississippi is lined with cities, including Brainerd, St. Cloud, St. Paul/Minneapolis, La Crosse, Dubuque, Quad Cities, Burlington, Quincy, Hannibal, St. Louis, Cape Girardeau, Cairo, Memphis, Greenville, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. That list includes two state capitals. Clearly, Disney was less worried about the average of 3 major tropical storms per year, or the cat3 or above hurricane every 4 years or so, than he was about the fact that prior to Disney World, only 2% of visitors to Disney Land came from east of the Mississippi River. He needed cheap land, interstate highways, and weather that was generally pleasant [whenever a disaster was not in progress]. If you want to see how much Disney cares about making water its bitch, punch in "28.396, -81.578" on a map. They'd build a 90-foot levee. They'd build a 200-foot levee, if they could put mouse ears on it and charge $150 per day for admission.