There's a town near here called Shoals. It was severely flooded last year. I didn't hear a single person asking for money to rebuild on the floodplain.
In Missouri after the huge Mississippi floods there was a town that was wiped out. They moved to higher ground and rebuilt. No one asked for money to rebuild on the flood plain.
Bitsy, It's not that we have no compassion, it's just that it is so incredibly stupid to rebuilb NOLA where it is. The coastal lands that once protected it are gone, the city continues to sink lower every year, there is nothing beyond the french quarter (and possibly not even that) that cannot be moved or rebuilt elsewhere. NOLA is dead. If this hurricane didn't finish the job the next one will.
Truth has no compassion, it just is.
nola is not dead there are engineering solutions to the problem this can be reversed. I am sorry if many dont want to spend the money for it but we will fight for it. Because in 10 years we will be hearing the same thing about other towns when it could have been prevented
NOtlantis