To both Paul D. and all other Readers / Responders to this Thread,-

A few thoughts Tugged and Bugged at me, -as I walked home after making my original post.

They can perhaps be summed up in "Sensitivity", "Scaled Down Fillings and Reconstruction", and "1800'ers (while certainly Rebuilding their City) Couldn't have Done the Fill In".

Sensitivity, -I was concerned with how I might be Coming Across, -so close to their Time of Need. But I did and do mean it as a Constructive Proposal towards their Present to Longer Term Recovery.

Scaled Down Reconstruction and Fill In,- If X amount of my Proposal turns out to be too Economically or otherwise Unfeasable to do, -then it can be Scaled Back and Down. Smaller Sections of the City and Basin so Filled in. Restoration and Strengthening of the Levees, Floodwalls, etc, already in place.

And our Good Ole Pioneering 1800's Forefathers Folk, -Great and Quick at Rebuilding their City as they would have been!, -Didn't have it in their Capability to implement a Metrowide and Basinwide Fill In, -as I think we just may be Capable of Today. 1800s'ers had the *Will* though in Spades! Do we?!

I knew I had committed "No High Crime", -and didn't so Sweat or Lose Sleep over it, -but they were Tugging and Nagging Little Concerns nonetheless. I Hope I've now Set any such possible matters Straight!

In any event, -I applaud our President's recent Reconstruction Speech and Resolve in and about New Orleans, -even if it does not involve my sort of Fill In, -but between everything on the current American Plate, -I sometimes really wonder where all the Money's gonna come from!

Money however in at least some Respects is No Object! Our New Orleans has to, -and in some Manner or Other Will, -Be Restored, Reconstructed, and Rebuilt!
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