Post 1461.
Nearly everyone could have moved inland ~one mile IF they had so desired, by car, walking, wheelcahir, or on some's back. Most refused for some delusioned reason or another.
Nice compassion there as you sit comfortably at your computer and judge the truly helpless.
Since the >7,000 drowned in Galveston's 1900 storm, everyone but children know that storm surges wash away cities and the people by the thousands.
Everyone in N.O. knows that they live way below sea level. Only an idiot or a fool thinks that they are not subject to nature.
Millions shall again rebuild on the beach sands and hundreds of thousands shall want to again live under water in old N.O. all at other taxpayers' expense AND our bloated Keynesian socialist big spenders want to spend the next generation into more mortal danger risks so the pandered to can live their ideal life style in the sun - on our money.
We should help the survivors remake their lives, but not to make the same foolish mistakes again and again on our dimes. (I spend thousand$ every year to mostly assure that my family can survive most of life's hazzards of nearly all imaginable serious risks without demanding strangers to subsizdize our current home.)
Zoning jurisdictions must not allow rebuilding in most places destroyed, but they will because they are short-term tax dollar whores. Hundreds of thousands of people could have perished because tens of millions now live where they shouldn't - given sober ri$k analyses of beach fronts and that mud bowl.
We should kindly help the pathetic survivors, but not to make the same bloody fool hardy bluders by allowing them to rebuild THERE.