From: John Cuccia 

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:16:15 -0500, "Glenn Meadows"
 wrote:

>Maybe now's the time to buy stock in Home Depot, Loews, forestry companies?
>Talk about the forthcoming "new housing boom" (unfortunate
the reason, but
>the reality is that BILLIONS will be spent over the next few years).

Here's a pretty good summary of where to start:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/AR2005083102758
.html
First they have to pump the flooded city dry, and that will take a minimum
of 30 days. Then they will have to flush the drinking water system, making
sure they don't recycle the contaminants. Figure another month for that.

The electricians will have to watch out for snakes in the water, wild
animals and feral dogs. It will be a good idea to wear hip boots and take
care of cuts and scrapes before the toxic slush turns them into festering
sores. The power grid might be up in a few weeks, but many months will
elapse before everybody's lights come back on.


and


Even then, there may be nothing normal about New Orleans, because the
floodwater, spiked with tons of contaminants ranging from heavy metals and
hydrocarbons to industrial waste, human feces and the decayed remains of
humans and animals, will linger nearby in the Gulf of Mexico for a decade.

"This is the worst case," Hugh B. Kaufman, a senior policy
analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency, said of the toxic stew that
contaminates New Orleans. "There is not enough money in the gross
national product of the United States to dispose of the amount of hazardous
material in the area."

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