[SamAdams76]

Very interesting. Did not realize the situation was so perilous there. A disaster of that scale would make 9/11 look like a three-alarm fire.

[razorback-bert]

If you stand in Jackson Square and watch ocean going ships traveling above your head on the river, you understand the problem.

I was flooded out twice while living on the Lakefront during Hurricanes.

A Pat O'Briens Hurricane glass will hold exactly $10.00 in pennies.

[VOA]

Did not realize the situation was so perilous there.

Yep, it's bad.
I've only visited N'Orleans once, and really loved the place.
But it is in a precarious situtation that is only made tenable by the technology of
some incredible civil engineering such as the pumps that pull water out of the New
Orleans area. These were first built MANY years ago (Depression era?).
I read an article on these impressive devices in American Heritage Technology years
about 10 years ago.