Part of me hopes that NO can pull itself up after this.
OTOH, this disaster was waiting to happen. A whole city below sea level next to the Gulf Coast doesn't make sense.
Prayers for the folks in NO and Mississippi.
I remember something similar when the Missippi River flooded in a hundred year high. People built their homes in a flood plain, and it flooded.
NO has been sinking for years. The silt has been rerouted to the gulf and water has been pumped out of the ground under NO.
I hope the rebuilding is more thoughtful, than the rebuilding in a floodplain was.
DK
"Prayers for the folks in NO and Mississippi."
Glad you remembered Mississippi...they're getting somewhat lost in the shuffle in most accounts. So sad to see such destruction in such history-rich, beautiful places and to so many good people.
Having visited Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis's home, right on the ocean in Biloxi, MS, a year or so after Camille, I'm hoping it may somehow have survived this, too, but it the odds are against it, I guess.
Just the loss of all the huge, magnificent live oaks makes my West Texas heart ache. Structures can be rebuilt...but
those trees are irreplaceable.
I agree. Rebuilding in the same disaster area is nuts. New Orleans should be relocated to higher ground.