Yep.
On Rebuilding New Orleans:
Turn New Orleans into a giant debris disposal facility.
Because of it's location at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi, it is ideally located to accept debris from the entire Mississippi basin and Gulf Coast.
Fill in the entire Crescent City area with enough construction debris, mine tailings, slag, and fly ash to build it up to 30 feet above sea level.
Cover it with 10 feet of dirt, incorporating underground utility grids, a few feet of topsoil, and rebuild on top of that.
Tel New Orleans would become the South's new 'Shining City on a Hill'.
Fund the entire project with fair market rate disposal fees.
Don’t forget, they could also use a portion as the Nation’s garbage fill, cap it, then draw methane to power the city.
A good amount of the land in the Netherlands was built up that way.
New Orleans is one of the pillars of American civilization, the cradle of the American imagination, and one of the only beautiful cities in the entire country. Comments like yours make me ashamed to be in the same political grouping with someone who could propose turning our cultural legacy into a garbage dump.
May it happen first to the house you live in.
I’m glad I live about 30 miles west of N.O.
p.s, where I live is also now under Hurricane warning....and I’m supposed to fly out of N.O. on Friday a.m. for a trip.