[Slapshot68]

Once again..living below sea level with water on three sides....not good.

[Dilbert San Diego]

There were some reports after Katrina indicating that during the Clinton administration, funding to reinforce the levees was given to Louisiana, but somehow the money didn’t get spent as intended.

Then again, does any of this matter, if natural forces will sooner or later overwhelm the site where New Orleans is.

Didn’t some Republican congressman get raked over the coals for suggesting that New Orleans shouldn’t get redeveloped at the current site? of course since he was Republican, it was racist and a slight to the poor of New Orleans as well to say that.

Mayor Nagin wants a chocolate city in New Orleans again. You figure many of the former residents will never return, and again calls into question whether it should be rebuilt. And if not rebuilt, calls into question whether it’s a good expenditure to rebuild the levees.

[oyez]

And on silt, at that. I've been told firsthand that the new construction is aready shifting. The heaver the flood walls the quicker they sink. Gravity really sucks.

[DesScorp]

"Once again..living below sea level with water on three sides....not good."

You know, it's not even that, really. I'm a big believer in the power of human ingenuity, and big fan of engineering. But when you take those three challenges, and then realize that A) your city will forever sink lower and lower unless you can refresh all the sediments, and that B) you can't refresh those sediments without letting the city flood every year... well, there's challenges, and then there are stupid, sisyphus-caliber quests. New Orleans is the later. We're going to lose that fight no matter how long we fight it and no matter how much we spend on it. It's money down a rat hole the next time a hurricane hits.

. NO may be in the single dumbest place to build a city upon, with 3 bodies of water, sinking soil, and no bedrock.