My Maternal Grandfather was from New Orleans, my Mother was from Lake Charles and I'm originally from Beaumont so I love South Louisiana, it's people and it's Culture. Some of the best times in my life have been in N.O. and S. La.
I agree that the problems of Coastal erosion are man made.
What about removing the levees south of N.O.? How much would that aleviate the erosion problem?
A retainer wall between Miss. and Texas is so extreme as to be ridiculous. Besides, would that not abandon everything south of the barrier?
I also agree that the most flood prone areas of N.O. should be abandoned. This will be hard to get done because the main objective of both Nagin and Blanco is to repack the ninth and other flood prone areas with Black Democrat voters, not the overall good of the City and area.
Give us a Laundry List of your proposals and their costs (keeping the costs to a reasonable amount that will have a chance of being approved by Congress).
Cool ok thank you for your reason. YOur the second person thats has mentioned some referring to a retaiing wall today. I think this refers to the barrier Islands, Again I dont know who was explaing this concept but it would not be some continuous wall running across the Coast. One thing I would say as to the Ninth ward. Nagin is to say the least an confusing guy. Its not all clear to me at this point that this is the plan. In fact there was a general uproar because after the Hurricane he was meeting and still meeting with people in the power group he has formed that seem to have the opposite idea. Nagin was elected largely with the help of White Voters. OF course he has made the republican lakeview area so mad he might try to change tactics. I give a list in the next post