This is absolutely true, but this is not New Orleans proper, as it was founded. The Mr. Go Canal was a government boondoggle that we were forced, as a nation, to fund and build. MRGO blew out the 9th Ward area, exactly what was predicted when the plan was proposed to excavate that giant, crazy, channel. MRGO was proposed as a jobs program, a short-cut between the Mississippi and the Gulf, never much-used that I ever saw. Didn’t work. It worked just fine as a water funnel to blowout the 9th ward.
This canal was a Federal project, against local objections, and a complete failure as a jobs program. MRGO isn’t the canal that took out NO, it took out the East side portion that tapers out into the marshes.
When they built this canal, it was a corrupt and inside deal that many objected to, but it was also Federal. Yeah, it’s a U.S. obligation, but don’t get taken; that was absolutely crap land that petered out into the water in all directions and was mostly owned by folks that rented out crap single family and crap multi-family housing. Don’t make those scum-bags rich by now rewarding them for buying and building on the landfills. It is idiocy to build on the East side of NO, next to the River and the Lake, at least as a Nation. If some guy wants to build a place there, more power to him, but I’m not going to pay for it.
Yes, you are.