New Orleans Lakefront Airport

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:49:11 -0500, "Dan Luke"
wrote:


Dan,

I hope that I can help some.

I've got a whole household of furniture and everything else from my
Mom's (RIP) that I would love to give to someone who needs it.

Mike Weller

"Mike Weller" wrote:

I hope that I can help some.

I've got a whole household of furniture and everything else from my
Mom's (RIP) that I would love to give to someone who needs it.

I suggest you get in touch with Goodwill or the Salvation Army, Mike.
I'm sure they could find plenty of takers.

Actually Mike,
If you have anyway that you can physically take it down there and give it
to someone it would be great. As most donations to Goodwill and the
Salvation Army are SOLD to people who need it and often at a price that
someone could have bought used furniture out of the newspaper. That being
said, I applaud your generosity. It's folks like yourself that make the
difference.
Hey maybe for the Katrina disaster you could make one of the charity
groups promise in writing that it would not be sold but given to a needy
family, but then you pretty much have to trust them to do the right thing.
Sometimes it's just hard to make sure your help is actually making it to the
people who need the help the most.

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Mike Weller" wrote:

I hope that I can help some.

I've got a whole household of furniture and everything else from my
Mom's (RIP) that I would love to give to someone who needs it.

I suggest you get in touch with Goodwill or the Salvation Army, Mike. I'm
sure they could find plenty of takers.

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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Wonder how long it will be before we make the $100 muffaletta trip
to Lakefront again--if indeed we ever do?



It will be a while.

When I did this job:

http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Boats.htm#Dimillo

The drydock was pumped down to put the ferry in at night because
electric rates were cheaper. The drydock was the largest connected
electric load in Maine and it would have cost $150,000 to pump it 15
feet down and 15 feet up in the day time. It still cost plenty to do
it at night. Presumably, they will pump New Orleans 24 hours a day.

The drydock was about 900 x 120 feet = 108,000 square feet. New
Orleans, now flooded to about the same depth is 5,000,000,000 square
feet or 46,464 times as large. At the daytime energy prices of Maine
a decade ago, it would therefore cost $6,969,600,000 to pump the city
out. The discharges on the drydock pumps were only about 100 feet
long and the city pumps have the head losses of many hundreds of feet
in some cases. Energy prices are going to be way higher by the time
they get this system running. It might be cheaper to just leave it as
a lake and rebuild somewhere else.

A FEMA manager said yesterday that some young staffers just starting
will still be working on the aftermath of Katrina when they retire.

--

Roger Long

Roger Long wrote:
"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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Wonder how long it will be before we make the $100 muffaletta trip
to Lakefront again--if indeed we ever do?



It will be a while.


One of the biggest problems that they have is that most of the big
pumping stations are diesel powered pumps and require constant manning.
If I remember correctly they only have something like 5 days worth of
fuel at each station.

Craig C.

Can you imagine what the cost of diesel fuel is going to be by the
time they finish this project? We may be glad most of us are still
burning 100LL. Of course, since that cost will be added to the cost
of everything that moves by truck, a lot of us aren't going to be able
to continue flying anyway.

--

Roger Long

That won't be a problem as they need to repair Lake Pontchartrain levees
first since they pump into the lake.

Some of this reporting has to be taken in context of the fog of war. The
AP reports the I-10 bridge damage will shut down long haul east-west
traffic totally ignoring that I-12 bypasses New Orleans north of the
lake.

wrote in message
One of the biggest problems that they have is that most of the big
pumping stations are diesel powered pumps and require constant
manning.
If I remember correctly they only have something like 5 days worth of
fuel at each station.

Craig C.

"sfb" wrote in message news:QRoRe.17270$k32.335@trnddc08...
That won't be a problem as they need to repair Lake Pontchartrain levees
first since they pump into the lake.

Some of this reporting has to be taken in context of the fog of war. The
AP reports the I-10 bridge damage will shut down long haul east-west
traffic totally ignoring that I-12 bypasses New Orleans north of the lake.

Fog of war - what crap!

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:51:05 +0100, "Chris"
wrote:


"
Some of this reporting has to be taken in context of the fog of war. The
AP reports the I-10 bridge damage will shut down long haul east-west
traffic totally ignoring that I-12 bypasses New Orleans north of the lake.

Fog of war - what crap!


I wondered about that too.

Is Mother nature something about war?

Mike Weller

"Chris" writes:

"sfb" wrote:
[...] Some of this reporting has to be taken in context of the fog
of war. [...]

Fog of war - what crap!

No, just a literary technique called "metaphor".

- FChE