The article is correct. What they didn't mention though is that if you move New Orleans, you also have to move the suburbs unless you were to move it just over the other side of Metairie and the other large suburbs, but I don't know if there's enough undeveloped land with owners willing to sell it to do it unless they moved it some 30 miles west.
The enormity of the task of moving the city and suburbs is mind-boggling.
Although, as you state, the article is right, it would be incorrect to compare the New Orleans flood with Ground Zero without at least this reservation:
After Ground Zero occurred, everyone stood together as one nation against a threat from outside. Have a look now: looting, robbery, rape, murder, neighbors turning against each other over trivialities, armed thugs shooting at rescue workers (it doesn't get much sicker, does it?), and what else is happening....
If this is the way things are going in the years to come, may God be on our side!
Nahh, they wouldn't need to find willing sellers-- the government will just emiment domain everything they need.