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"Close the city for good. Build refineries...make it a sea port...no neighborhoods no apartments..nothing. Make it for business ports and oil only.

The city of N.O. is and always will be a total cess pool of sin and disease. This article proves it...... $1 trillion was a number I heard last night on ABC News....."

Estimates are that the federal response will cost the government about 150 billion. This is going to be spent anyway. Rebuilding NO elsewhere won't save a dime of that. Insurance estimates are at 40 to 50 billion. This isn't federal money and includes Mississippi and Alabama too.

Meanwhile. the electricity is already back on in much of New Orleans, and water and sewer are working in the non flooded areas. A Walgreens has already opened for business and there are still thousands of people in New Orleans in neighborhoods that suffered hardly any damage that are refusing to leave. Many are going to open their businesses in the next few days.

If the Federal government were to pay to relocate all the buildings in New Orleans it likely would cost hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions. There is a lot of very expensive real estate in New Orleans, most of which was damaged only superficially if at all since all the most expensive real estate was located above the flood waters.

It isn't "group think" that is keeping the federal government from relocating New Orleans elsewhere. It is cold hard economic fact. New Orleans will be rebuilt but hopefully they will bring in some fill dirt before rebuilding the neighborhoods that flooded so badly this time around. Given that all new construction will no doubt have to meet stringent hurricane building codes, the next time this happens, it won't cause nearly the same amount of damage.

the next time this happens, it won't cause nearly the same amount of damage.

I can't wait for the panic that will take place the next time a hurricane heads for the New Orleans area, followed by all the looting that will take place when everyone except the thugs leave town.

New Orleans will be rebuilt but hopefully they will bring in some fill dirt before rebuilding the neighborhoods that flooded so badly this time around.

I would think anywhere that flooded they would want to cover the ground to some depth. If only for sake of protecting playing children from the residue of pollutants that accompanied the flood waters.