this get rid of NOLA notion some of you guys have here is ugly
I don’t necessarily want to get rid of NOLA, I just don’t want to be perpetually on the hook for keeeping the ocean out of some place it periodically wants to go.
One idea I’ve seen for rebuilding that makes some sense is to get rid of all the houses that are currently below sea level, and replacing them with apartments/condos on pilings that put the living space above sea level, with parking underneath.
That way, in a hurricane, people can drive away, and if it floods nothing significant is damaged.
To this day, many republicans, in their zeal to bash democrats and defend Bush, refuse to concede that the response to Katrina was a failure at all levels of government. In addition, they refuse to admit or recognize the Army Corps of Engineers’ culpability for this disaster. People need to understand that in New Orleans, Katrina was never a natural disaster, but a man-made one.