[Leica] Katrina relief pin-up calendar--Q for Jeffery

[wrs111445 at yahoo.com (Bill Smith)]

Jeffery:
   
  "High ground" in Houston is only a couple of inches. Since NO has 
virtually the same topo, I wonder how high are you above the lowest 
elevation?
   
  Adding to the flood woes of level topo in Houston, was/ is the land 
subsidence of 4-7 feet from water well extracation--primarily from 
industrial use.
   
  Bill

Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
  I'm in an all black neighborhood (except for about 6 of us), and we (and 
the
rest of the Irish Channel) are on very high ground. It all depends on how
close to the river you are. Over the past 150 years, old neighborhoods
became ghetto neighborhoods as whites fled to the suburbs and north of the
lake. But now there is more interest in restoring 150-year-old houses in my
old neighborhood because it was built before the levees.

Lakeview got wiped out worse than anyone other than the lower 9th ward, and
Lakeview was primarly white. Unfortunately, it was far from the river and
close to the lake. Houses were in the $300,000 to $500,000 range there, and
they got 6-8 feet of water. I paid $60,000 for mine and got no water.
Location location location.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Scott
McLoughlin
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 6:22 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Katrina relief pin-up calendar--Bro Nagin


Aside from the color of folk's skin, is it true that in many or most cities,
the historically nice neighborhoods for the well heeled are on higher
ground?

This is true in Baltimore and Wash, DC. (lower G'town my be an exception),

I was led to believe that this started way back in an attempt to avoid
mosquito and other insect born illnesses.

BTW, I like your final analysis of the problem.

IMHO, it's very hard to be prepared for low probability, theoretically worst
case scenarios - and not just hurricanes. If we were so prepared and ever
vigilant against all such possibilities, we'd probably all go 
crazy.

Scott

Jeffery Smith wrote:

>... that the blacks live in trailers
>while the whites live in houses. I would hazard a guess that there are 
>far more whites than blacks in FEMA trailers down here.
>
>[snip]
>Jeffery Smith
>New Orleans, LA
>http://www.400tx.com
>http://400tx.blogspot.com/
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