To be honest and to repeat what I said earlier Louisiana's of all parties have tried to address this problem. Actually additional money for the leveies would be helpful but unless major money is allocated toward costal erosion by the Feds there will be a diaster of epic porportions in Nola as well as Southern Louisiana. There is coming a time that the noram natural barriers will be gone that give some protection to these facilties particually the oil and gas Industry. Its a wake up call. But while record money is allocated to the everglades and more to the Hamptons and Cape Cod barrier ISlands we are left with nothing. So party has nothing to do with it.
I didn't suggest that party had anything to do with it--it just so happens that Landrieu is a democrat Senator, not a structural engineer. Nothing can change the fact that NO is in a bad location--Pompeiian bad. When you state that additional money for the levees would be helpful, are you considering at all what I asserted? For truly safe, effective levees to be built in NO, they would be monstrously large. The taller you go, the wider and longer you MUST go. "Additional monies" starts to sound like hundreds of billions.
"To be honest and to repeat what I said earlier Louisiana's of all parties have tried to address this problem."
The way they have tried to address it has been to try and get someone else to pay for it.
Everyone in southern LA has been aware of this problem for decades. They could have made preparations for the eventual catastrophe that everyone knew was going to happen but they weren't willing to pay for it themselves. They wanted the Federal Gov't to come in and pay for it.