"It was 1900, not 1906. :) "
Yes, the most devastating was in 1900, there was another catastrophic hurricane to hit Galveston in 1910
Dr Walter Maestri, Emergency Operations Director for Jefferson Parish, being interviewed on WWL: "a "Lake New Orleans" could be created which will be filled with a "toxic" soup of mostly petroleum products, which they can't just pump out.
Poor New Orleans, I think their real estate bubble may have just burst.