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The article is correct. What they didn't mention though is that if you move New Orleans, you also have to move the suburbs unless you were to move it just over the other side of Metairie and the other large suburbs, but I don't know if there's enough undeveloped land with owners willing to sell it to do it unless they moved it some 30 miles west.
Especially if the same people are in office in New Orleans and the governor's seat.
NO should have been a ghost city BEFORE the hurricane hit.
Rebuild NO if you want just don't do it on my dime.
Insurance companies are not going to unerwrite a single building in NO until a Netherlands grade dike system is built.
A preview of what will happen on the West Coast when The Big One hits. There will be one difference – as San Francisco has declared itself a “Military Free Zone” we won’t have to worry about sending in our military to help there.
Mark my words. Fourteen months from now the Democrats are going to demand that a way be found for all those people who have been scattered to the wind be allowed to vote in Louisiana elections regardless of their current location.
While watching this catastrophe happen while on vacation with my wife out west, my better half came up with a solution. Rebuild NO but first pile millions of tons of rock and dirt on top of the place. Apparently they're going to have to raze everything anyway. Out in the mountains it is obvious that there are billions of tons of rock that can be used to cover old NO. That rock can be covered with the needed amount of dirt and whatever for underground pipes and communication wires. The level of all this would obviously have to be higher than the surrounding water level. That is the ONLY solution I like for rebuilding NO. Simply strengthening the levees will not do. Of course I'm no engineer and someone of this forum will point out that my wife's and my idea is impossible. But it sounds better than rebuilding in the same spot and still below sea level.
NO isn't the only city with this problem. In my town, we have a natural flood plain for the river. For years the Army Corps of Engineers maintained it as a wetland and didn't allow any development. Well, about 10 years ago something happened and now you'll find houses, stores, businesses on that flood plain.
I was working at a business on the periphery of the flood plain and was talking to a co-worker that had just moved into town and was looking for a place to live. I told him that this was a bad place to locate because of the "100 year floods" that seemed to happen every 10 years. Long story short, he bought a house next to the flood plain and it flooded that year. The water came right up to his doorstep and he had to boat home for about a week. The city's answer to flooding? Build more homes, stores and businesses.
There are probably hundreds, if not thousands of cities built partially or wholly on unsustainable land. Cities along the Mississippi, in hurricane alleys, along earthquake faults. In the past disaster was not so bad because you'd take out a few farms or cow towns, but now that farmland is being replaced with suburbia, the disasters are increased orders of magnitude.