So, now that the whole world has had a lesson in "how to destroy New Orleans," if they fix it, say build seawalls and levees higher than ever, all it takes is a terrorist with a modest amount of explosives in a barge or boat to breach a levee and submerge the city, say at 3am while everyone is sleeping.
If they rebuild this city without raising the buildings up, they had better plan on surrounding it with a whole lot of reinforced concrete. Better to fill it in / raise it.
all it takes is a terrorist with a modest amount of explosives in a barge or boat to breach a levee andWow ... how did you come up with that one?
The major part of that synthesis is based on what is now fast surfacing as an 'urban legend' (barge hit canal wall and broke it!).
"all it takes is a terrorist with a modest amount of explosives in a barge or boat to breach a levee and submerge the city, say at 3am while everyone is sleeping. "
Youch!
Does anyone know why these long skinny canals with hundreds of miles of vulnerability don't have locks on the end where they go into Lake P? - So that they can be shut to limit the damage?