If New Orleans is rebuilt in the same place with the same reliance on levees and pumps, then it's as foolish as ignoring the warnings that they had, while continuing to rely on levees, pumps, and disaster plans.
It's like shooting oneself, and then saying "next time I'll do it closer to a hospital," instead of pointing the gun away before pulling the trigger!
Although much of the city will survive, efforts should be made to "rebuild" elsewhere, by limiting funding support for foolish efforts to redevelop in the current area.
Nothing like some good old positive thinking ............. but, it's true.
Heard someone on Dennis Prager today. Apparently you just need to raise the structures, rebuild them on sand bags or stilts.
The idea that building expensive marshlands is a substitute for a higher and stronger levee is typical enviro nonsense. Unfortunately, even the Corps of Engineers is now so infested with the enviros that funds are steered to eco-"restoration" instead of things that might actually protect human lives and property.
"they were a terrorist attack in New York, a major earthquake in San Francisco and a major hurricane in New Orleans."
Well, let's not go for the trifecta, OK?
My money's still on a humdinger of a quake along the New Madrid fault. G'bye, Memphis. Okay, so I was wrong this time...but mark my words.
Math is your friend, put it to some use. In the last 4 years, 160 million $ out of $14 billion comes out to barely a reduction of 1%. Anyone who thinks that 1% is the difference between the destruction of New Orleans and a safe dry city is nuts.
Small wonder the NEA wants to keep us all stupid.
I couldn't agree more with Not rebuilding New Orleans in it's existing location. For anyone to respond with simply saying that the levy system need to be fixed and or made higher, I say that you could rebuild that entire levy system several feet higher, but it's still at the mercy of mother nature. There's no garuntee that during any other hurricane that large debris being pushed into the levy walls won't breach it again.
Now lets factor in the enviros claim of global warming and sea levels rising. Actually the real fact of what is causing global warming is not greenhouse gas emissions, it is the fact that the sun itself is getting hotter, melting icecaps, that are making sea levels rise. Hurricanes will also continue to increase in frequency and intensity as this is natures way of maintaining temperature balance across the globe.
Why rebuild an already vulnerable city that is sure to be even more and more vulnerable by not only more frequent deadly storms but also gradually becoming even farther below sea level?
The best way not to be subject to either an attack, or a natural disaster, is not be there.
The sheer INCOMPETENCE that has been displayed for the past three days has me wondering WTF have all of these cities been spending their Homeland Security money on??? This whole situation demonstrates that after 4 years of preparation for a terrorist attack, we would be rendered helpless. At least in NYC, not many homes were affected. I am witnessing third world refugee situations. Why on earth can't they get food and water delivered to the evacuation points that they told people to go to (ie. the convention center). And we have heard little to nothing from the people south of NOLA.