$8,000,000,000 has been given to the SFWMD and others to "restore" the everglades, as if it were possible with the cane in Belle Glade and the canals that pump water at speed. (Erosion)
Say this number to yourself, Eight thousand million dollars, then think about the cuts to the funding for the levee studies and repairs.
EIGHT THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS to protect an area where NO ONE LIVES.... whilst NO goes without. Now if that doesn't put a burr under your saddle, nothing will, and if you saw the ridiculous ways in which this money is spent, you would go and get your gun.
This:
is hundreds perhaps thousands of times more important than NO. The folly of mankind knows no bounds, no limits, nothing is too ridiculous for making that thing that we refer to as reality.
Now THIS IS A PUMP STATION, and there are DOZENS OF THEM IN SOUTH FLORIDA... but then again, there are some very very wealthy people in South Florida too. Why aren't there large pump stations such as this one in NO? There cannot be any good answer. A station such as this one, (which primarily caters to the cane growers) could suck the water out of NO in HOURS, I bullsh*t you not.