[ncountylee]

Mentions BBC TV program:

Horizon: The Lost City of New Orleans

[unixfox]

New Orleans 'risks extinction'

And this is a problem because....

[GOPJ]

In the chaos that followed the worst natural disaster in American history, a forensic investigation has been taking place to find out what went wrong and why.

Ummm, it's a city below sea level, that's sinking, in an active hurricane zone. And that's just for starters...

[D.P.Roberts]

It was a dinosaur anyway. (And run by a brain the size of a walnut.)

[From One - Many]

another hit today I understand....

tornadoes

NO should be left to rot in peace.

[SF Republican]

I think every city that is built below sea level should probably become extinct.

[spintreebob]

Buggy Whips also risk extinction, as does Atlantis, as does PanAM and TWA Airlines.... and maybe GM.

So what?

An individual person has a "right to life"; but eventually dies anyway.

Why should an object, city or company have a "right" not only to "life" but to "eternal life" ?

[half-cajun]

Actually New Orleans didn't take a direct hit as the article states.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

In the chaos that followed the worst natural disaster in American history...

The BBC should get its history straight. The worst natural disaster in American history was the Class 5 hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas in September 1900. Called 'Isaac's Storm' after Isaac Cline, the national weather service meteorologist on site, the hurricane killed over 6,000 people and leveled the city.

[dirtboy]

But on the 29 August 2005 New Orleans took a direct hit from Hurricane Katrina

Uh, it wasn't a direct hit. Katrina blew the levees with a backhand blow from her weak side.

[TheForceOfOne]

There have been numerous Sleestak sitings. I suggest everyone stay out.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

GIVE ME A BREAK, if this is true, I say it might not be worth rebuilding all the city. Move it.


To make New Orleans safe to withstand a Category Five hurricane, his proposal is for a vast barrier system stretching from Mississippi all the way to Texas.

[SuziQ]

I doubt New Orleans will EVER be extinct. It has too much charm in the eyes of the people who want to be there. It will be a much different city after all this, but that could be a real improvement! What gets built back will, I hope, not be large scale government housing projects that did nothing but encourage criminals to take advantage of the poorest citizens and robbed people of any hope at all. I'm guessing that those who escaped from those hell-holes are likely to NEVER return. I'm sure they've found much nicer places to live with better schools for their kids, more opportunities for improving their lives, and are thankful they're out of New Orleans.

[WasDougsLamb]

New Orleans took a direct hit from Hurricane Katrina

----Nope. That is a lie. No need to read anymore.

[Petronski]

...New Orleans took a direct hit from Hurricane Katrina...

Nope. It was a glancing blow.

[weegee]

The core problem was corruption at the state and local level.

Same as a company that is being ripped off from within by crooks.

Government doesn't serve the people anymore (and that includes support for the infrastructure). Get while the getting is good.

Rome fell too.

It isn't a modern phenomena although it may be the a sign of a new trend. Plenty of major cities are corrupt. And low and behold, the Rats hold a grip on the operation of many of the major metropolitan areas in America. I can't say that "Republicans" would be any more upstanding running those cities but it isn't even a consideration at this point.

[DesScorp]

Let New Orleans die.

Bulldoze what's left and let it become wetlands again. Move upstate and build "New-new-Orleans" on high ground. Or just move to Texas or Mississippi and be done with it.

[wouldntbprudent]

The Mississippi River had been controlled over the years to stop the annual floods with hundreds of miles of levees and dams. As a result sediments that were naturally brought down to replenish the land, were cut off. Gradually Louisiana started to lose its coast and today it has the highest rate of coastal land loss in North America. An area the size of Wembley stadium is lost to the sea every 20 minutes. On another thread, the loss of land was blamed on Big Oil. Ha.

[colorado tanker]

The premise of this article is wrong. N.O. was built originally on land above sea level. Jackson Square, the Quarter, uptown, are all above sea level. The storm surge got 'em. The problem is the areas below sea level, like the Ninth Ward, where the city later expanded. The real issue is whether to rebuild there.

[The Sons of Liberty]

The biggest problem with New Orleans is not the elevation or location, it is the pinheads that are in charge. For a long, long time, being a member of the Levee Board meant that you collected pay for doing nothing, and had a license to steal (as all politicians in Louisiana seem to think they have). No real attention was paid to the levees, that was for the Army Corps of Engineers to worry about.

Besides, how could we make it without our "Chocolate" City?