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This is an odd question. Should New York or Houston or St Paul or Albuquerque or Seattle be rebuilt if they are destroyed by a natural disaster? Noone would ask that. So why is NO any different?
Of course...and a lot faster. And if it happened again, it should be rebuilt again.
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Not with tax dollars. We spend over a billion dollars a year on the Mississippi Revetment Program to keep the Mississippi in its present course. We pour millions of cubic feet of concrete into the river. Eventually, mother nature will win and the river will go in the course it wants to, out the Atchafalaya River moving the entire delta as it does every 500 years or so.
We are talking about investing billions of tax dollars into a city that was built on the best of French technology hundreds of years ago. They pumped out the natural landscape and without the water, the city sunk.
On the other hand,much of the Netherlands is below sea level but they do it out of necessity. It is very small with oodles of people for its size and needs the land. In the fifties, a good portion of the country was under water.
New Orleans is doomed. If people want to spend their own money to live there is one thing but the tax dollars we spend are wasted. The best thing we could do is take the historic building and move them to dry land.
It is not 100 feet below sea level. The lowest point is 7 feet below sea level. The highest point is 18 feet.
But the difference between it and the other cities people mention is that New Orleans is doomed. Any place can get hit by natural disaster but New Orleans will go under water or at least a lot of it will.
commish
Amazing that most of the work done was by thankless volunteers. The people their have no self reliance and expected the govt to do everything for them. On the other hand Greenburg KS is nearly rebuilt after a tornado wiped the town off the map.
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they should of sent down every liberal to new orleans cents there responsible for it being the way it is in the first place. why dont we turn new orleans into are australia a place to dump the people we dont want.
Anonymous
if people are living there yeah...but do you really want to built a city 100 feet under sea level?