Many thousands of people are expected to be dead.Thousands morehomeless. The city is destroyed. If they rebuild, won't this sort of thing happen again?
I think the initial 25 billion estimate won't even put a scratch in the damage done. We are talking about rebuilding an entire city - an entire city that will soon be a stinking pool of poison. What else is there to do, but wow, how do you rebuild an entire city. Unreal.
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Excellent topic. You raise a good question. Should taxpayers have to subsidize the risk of natural disasters in areas where natural disasters are...well...natural?
On the other hand Bush et al just ran up a tab for Iraq that our children's children may well have to shoulder.
Large parts of NO will likely be rebuilt for historcial purposes, but the city will never be the same. French settlersmovedthere sometime around 1699, and there are (were?) many landmarks important to US history. There is a lot of historythere.
It'll be a tough call. The water level situation has been a concern for a long time. Since the levees are broke, maybe it's best to leave'em broke.One could fill the depression and rebuild the city, but since it's on a river plain, it'llsink again.
Think of the loss...the food, the home of the only uniquely American art form in the US (Jazz), the culture, the "Easy Rider" cemetary, ...there's also a few hangovers in there too, but that's for a different board.
Simply put, some yes....some no. Frankly, the floodinghas improved some of the areas. It'ssad tosay as a fan of the city, but in the words of my dad "Maybe there's a message here."
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I've been wondering the same thing. The Discovery channel has had several worst case scenarios years before this has happened. Now, they've happened.
I'll bet the gov't spends mega $$$ to rebuild, and I'll bet little if anything is actually done to prevent future occurances. Cities just don't belong behind levies and below sea levels. Trying to defy nature is just a cry out to be humbled.
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I saw something like this comin' a while ago. I just didn't know it would happen so soon. Isnt the whole city of New Orleans like 30 feet belore sea level, and sinking as we speak? I seen a thing on TV a while back about that, and this is what I had pictured in my head.
Yes, or course it should be rebuilt - in Utah. All that's worth saving is a handful of restaurants and a coffee shop (Cafe Du Monde). It'd all fit nicely into a strip mall in Provo.
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I'll bet the gov't spends mega $$$ to rebuild, and I'll bet little if anything is actually done to prevent future occurances. Cities just don't belong behind levies and below sea levels. Trying to defy nature is just a cry out to be humbled.
Yep . They will -
Below sea levels/ on the ocean -is not a good place to build( or rebuild )a city is right.
Utah?
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It seems like rebuilding the city is simply risking the same fate again. Then again, where are you going to relocate all of those people? Too many to fit in a strip mall in Utah, that's for sure.
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RE: Should New Orleans be Rebuilt?
The same issue can be raised with the whole Gulf area including Florida that is prone to hurricane damage. It will be rebuilt and hopefully be better than ever. One of the problems is that the delta, which helped to protect the area from surges, had been slowly reduced due to oil company operations, and shipping channel dredging. The Mississippi isn't allowed to fill in the delta and the result is a diminishment of the protective barrier islands in the delta. The Levees were constructed and redesigned after the hurricanes in the 60's and worked to a limited extent because they were lucky that a big one stayed away until now. I believe that the levy system can be redesigned and rebuilt to withstand even larger catastrophes. Hopefully we will learn from our mistakes. One question that I have is why the mayor waited so long before issuing an order to evacuate. My daughter works in that city and I called her on Sat morning and suggested that she get out of town before the rush started. The mayor waited until just before noon on Sunday before letting the word out. Many of the poor and elderly people didn"™t have the time or resources to leave. I could plainly see on Saturday morning that due to the large size the storm had to hit the city one way or another. Perhaps someday they will find a way to stop the storms from getting so large. Can anyone say global warming?
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