[driftless]

I was just out west with my wife where we watched the story unfold from out motel rooms each night. Her suggestion and mine, if they choose to rebuild on the same site...which seems most likely, is to haul in millions of tons of rock and dirt to raise the NO at least ten feet above sea level. Of course that idea will be ignored as will the one to rebuild the town further inland. They'll simply shore up the levees somewhat...and watch when the town is flooded again sometime in the near future.

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Yeah. Sad, ain't it?

[Johnny Crab]

I was just out west with my wife where we watched the story unfold from out motel rooms each night. Her suggestion and mine, if they choose to rebuild on the same site...which seems most likely, is to haul in millions of tons of rock and dirt to raise the NO at least ten feet above sea level.

Ah, we're pumping a "wetland" now! And filling it in!! Greenies(and I don't mean Tulane) are gonna be mad!

Actually I agree with your comments(NOLA resident 1959~1989). The last two of my Jefferson Parish/NOLA-based family are permanently relocating(one already has to Texas). The rest are on the Northshore.

[rock58seg]

is to haul in millions of tons of rock and dirt to raise the NO at least ten feet above sea level.

Not that farfetched. It was done over a hundred years ago in Galveston, with much more primitive equipment than is available now. There is continuous dredging on the Mississippi river, to remove sandbars and other impediments to river traffic. Load it into barges and unload it in NOLA. Decide ahead of time what is to be kept and what is to be buried. Jack up what is worth saving, fill in underneath. Level the rest.