I have been thinking about the same idea to leave the French Quarter and tourist or historical places but why put so much infrastructure back in harms way...whether 10 or 50 years away. Hastert may have angered some but why are we so afraid to say things that make sense. Is there no open discussion? For the sake of sentimentality, we may doom NO to the same fate some day. Hastert is finally acting like a leader and saying something that may not be popular but deserves consideration.
I'm sure when China first started talking about building the dam on the Yellow River (I think) that it wasn't a very popular suggestion to put historic sites under water, but the time has come to consider at least moving the residential areas to higher ground for NO.