"With thousands feared drowned in what could be America's deadliest natural disaster in a century, New Orleans' leaders all but surrendered the streets to floodwaters Wednesday and began turning out the lights on the ruined city — perhaps for months."
I think it's going to take longer than that. For all the help that government can give, it's the people of a town that put it back on its feet. Do the people of New Orleans have the gumption to roll up their sleeves, scrub that place clean and make it home again?
Posted by floridacracker at August 31, 2005 10:05 PMIt might be more cost effective if the city was just demolished and filled up to about thirty feet above sea level with rock and dirt.
Seeing as how there are hundreds of storms in her future it might be cheaper.
Or we could hire those people, I forget where over in northern europe that built those dikes, you know the one that kid stuck his finger in. Let them build dikes since they seem to think they can do a better job than the Corp of Engineers did.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
I agree with Papa Ray as to not rebuilding New Orleans as it has been, but either somewhere else entirely (at least a few miles on higher ground nearby, wherever that might be).
If not a triumph of insanity if the City is "rebuilt" right where it is: below sea level surrounded by desperate levies -- which will continue to age, degenerate as will hurricanes continue to happen.
The City of New Orleans needs to be rebuilt but elsewhere and under reasonable geographic conditions. To pour billions of dollars into recreating foolish infrastructural conditions would be the height on insanity.
Posted by: -S- at September 1, 2005 01:57 PM