From 2001: New Orleans faces doomsday scenario Houston Chronicle ^ | December 1, 2001 | ERIC BERGER KEEPING ITS HEAD ABOVE WATER New Orleans faces doomsday scenario New Orleans is sinking. And its main buffer from a hurricane, the protective Mississippi River delta, is quickly eroding away, leaving the historic city perilously close to disaster. So vulnerable, in fact, that earlier this year the Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked the potential damage to New Orleans as among the three likeliest, most castastrophic disasters facing this country. The other two? A massive earthquake in San Francisco, and, almost prophetically, a terrorist...