Anniversary Present?
With Tropical Strom Ernesto’s strength and path still up in the air, according to this CBS/AP article New Orleans Told Levees May Not Hold.
If Ernesto becomes a hurricane and strikes near New Orleans all bets are off regarding possible flooding in the city. Until you are sure the levees will hold, you are really taking a chance rebuilding.
I forgot to mention the problem even a tropical storm will cause for those living in FEMA trailers. They should pack all of their personal stuff in heavy duty garbage bags and look for some place else to wait out a storm.
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Amen on the FEMA trailers. My late parents lived in that trailer outside Livingston; I worried about their being caught in a tornado, but it never occurred to me to be concerned about a hurricane. Thank goodness they departed this world years before Rita did its damage to their old place. You just never know.
America needs a city located where New Orleans is, for practical reasons as much as sentimental ones. Unless we want our oil and other goods taken through a very, very overloaded Port of Houston, we’d better find some way to restore and protect New Orleans. I, for one, do not consider it optional: America needs New Orleans. (I’m also rather fond of the place, though my memories of it are many years old.)
More than anything they need to undo things, like all of the canals they cut to help businesses that acted like nozzles to over-top and erode the flood walls. Then they need to get into wetlands restoration to rebuild the natural barriers to flooding that they destroyed with the canal system.
New Orleans isn’t just a Gulf Port, it is the most important river port in the US. Unless you can move the Mississippi, there’s no other place the port can be.
The Dutch can do it, so it’s not impossible.
“…Until you are sure the levees will hold, you are really taking a chance rebuilding”
But this is exactly the problem IF you lived there- You KNOW they haven’t properly rebuilt those levees, nor made it safe from the upcoming Hurrican potential.
SOoo – who would rebuild before that is taken care of? and Risk (again) all their livelihood and home and soul to the careless, feckless efforts and rebuilding uncompleted by the good ole FEDs (and Georgie-Porgie)?
Thus it become a type of self-fulling prophecy that folks will not return, not rebuild. It’s the results of the lack luster efforts to restore this area to even pre-Katrina levels of storm and hurricane withstanding forces. This insures it will fail to rebuild and remain at risk.
Blech…how I HATE that man!