[goldstategop]

The Decline And Fall Of New Orleans. As Michael Leeden writes, its preoccupation with death prefigured its eventual fate. Is there a Garden Of Gethesmane scene coming next? We'll see.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[loreldan]

From what I've read recently Seattle should be listed as a city living on borrowed time. I've read a lot of articles about experts worrying about Rainier (a volcano). They said if it did blow it could be a massive eruption.

[Kenyon]

This is an exceptional piece of writing on the spirit of New Orleans. The operative sentences are the last:

Doomed cities with an intimate relationship with the dead are special places, incubators of exceptional qualities of spirit and thus of extraordinary inventiveness. If we have lost one of those cities to the forces of nature, it will impoverish our world far beyond the enormous human tragedy. Even if it was long foreseen.

[concrete is my business]

New Orleans does not have to be doomed.

Isn't the whole of The Netherlands below sea level?

What about Venice?

I think New Orleans may rise again.

[Kokojmudd]

Interesting article.

[Nateman]

My first choice for doomed city: San Francisco. One of these days a really big earthquake is going to hit it hard. LA suffers from the same problem, but after fires, mudslides, floods, riots and liberal governance it still is around so I suspect its just too tough to die

[SE Mom]

Not sure whether to start a whole thread for it- but I'm going to post it everywhere..must read for perspective:
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pao/RELEASES/02-06_1927_Flood_Anniversary2.htm