"Will New Orleans survive?"
As it exists now, mostly below sea-level?
Should it?
Should the taxpayers be on the hook for it?
Sure, and the next time this happens too. Just ask them.
Should the tax payer be on the Hook when San Fransisco falls apart after the next big quake hits???
Should it?
Should the taxpayers be on the hook for it?
Move the whole shebang to higher ground, and call it New and Improved Orleans.
No.
And insurance co.'s should no longer insure square frame houses in hurricane prone areas, but only insure these in the future
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As it exists now, mostly below sea-level?
Should it?
Should the taxpayers be on the hook for it?
No the contemporary ATLANTIS will not survive for the better interest of our people.
As it exists now, mostly below sea-level?
Should it?
Should the taxpayers be on the hook for it?
No the contemporary ATLANTIS will not survive for the better interest of our people.
As it exists now, mostly below sea-level? The correct answer is No! But I think we all know what will be at least attempted.
Should it? No.
Should the taxpayers be on the hook for it? No. Will they? Of course!
I'm trying not to be bitter here, but I have little hope of the powers-that-be following a logical and prudent decision-making procedure. I mean we're talking a place where the populist political heritage is Hewey Long and Edwin Edwards
"Will New Orleans survive?"
In some form, but at the same exact location?
I would hope not!
"As it exists now, mostly below sea-level? "
Only if the citizens and our Gov. Org. are even stupider than I think they are!
"Should it?"
Survive? Yes, old area as an industrial park servicing the port and refineries.
The new and "rebuilt" "City Center" and all residential should be moved to higher ground!
"Should the taxpayers be on the hook for it?"
Not really, but they will be!
And virtually every existing plot of land will be rebuilt, with FEMA backed low interest loans and grants.
I survived a flood several years ago, the looting will be several times what gets reported, scams and rip-off's will abound, false insurance claims will outstrip honest appraisals, with some insurance companies doing their own rip-off's!
Property OWNERS will come out fairly well in the end, RENTERS are SCR**D!
Natural disaster, followed by civil insurrection (looting), insurance will not cover as much as many people assume.
It will be years before this area recovers, and the cost WILL be passed on to the entire country, in many forms.