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On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:41:31 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

>On 10/15/24 17:52, john larkin wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:40:04 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
>> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 04:10:30 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On a sunny day (Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:22:30 -0700) it happened john larkin
>>>>> <JL@gct.com> wrote in <kvjrgj581aeh14c337e1taigc8fvcdaqdh@4ax.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:29:28 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>>>>>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This woman has a simply astounding intellect.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.zerohedge.com/political/kamala-election-packed-some-stuff
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is weird:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/14/harris-proposes-legalizing-marijuana-industry-black-men/7567088
>>>>>> 8007/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it constitutional to have "fully forgivable" loans for just black
>>>>>> men?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How would she decode who is black?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> She is also assuming that black men are pot addicts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's scary to think about what sorts of idiots do indeed occupy the
>>>>>> highest places in government. Politics is one of many professions
>>>>>> where more expertise and experience make people dumber.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is just US Military Industrial Complex puppets
>>>>> they do not care about Americans at all.
>>>>> Making war everywhere, supporting genocide by youws
>>>>>
>>>>> Massive flooding causes millions without power, many dead
>>>>> polliticsians flying sightseeing missions above it...
>>>>> When we in the Netherlands had massive flooding many years ago
>>>>> we build the 'Delta works':
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works
>>>>>
>>>>> A better way to spend your tax money than making guns and killing people.
>>>>
>>>> It's more difficult to build a wall that will keep a hurricane out.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, all they’ve got inside the dikes is slightly drier mud. ;)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Phil Hobbs
>> 
>> They don't have to worry about rainfall filling all the valleys and
>> canyons either. They did have a tornado in 1674.
>> 
>> The Netherlands reminds me of Louisuiana, where another foot or two of
>> rainwater doesn't make much difference.
>> 
>
>Most of it is river delta, with lots of --now dry-- surface below
>sea level. It's necessary to keep pumping to keep dry feet. It
>works, for as long as a reasonable level of civilisation persists.
>
>Jeroen Belleman

Are there subsidence problems? That's what long-term pumping will do.

New Orleans keeps sinking. As does a lot of the California Central
Valley.