That is if there is a country called the United States forty years from now.

Of course Louisiana was a country before the United States happened.

New Orleans used to also be a WHOLE LOT farther from the ocean than it is now. From all of the studies I have seen in about 85 years it will literally be Ocean Front property. If you have lived there for so long you should also be very familiar with the fact that the vast majority of New Orleans is below sea level. None of it is very far above sea level. We call ocean front property that is below sea level sea floor.

It might be possible with GREAT EXPENSE to engineer a system that would protect New Orleans from being totally destroyed by a cat 4 or 5 storm for a decade or two. But about 20 years out there is no system in the world that would protect the people there and certainly not the property.

As I said before Katrina actually missed. It was a cat 4 storm. There are cat 5 storms. Had it actually hit there would have been nothing that the current system could have done to have prevented everyone in New Orleans from having died. That included the people at the Dome. That was then. The situation is even worse today.

Remember New Orleans also almost survived the hit, but there was a dike failure. Today even of all of the systems in place worked at their optimum the same hit would have an even greater effect. At the time a direct hit from a cat 4 storm would have simply erased the city. Today a direct hit from a cat 3 storm would have the same effect. A cat 3 storm with the similar path as Katrina would create the same damage and loss of life as this incident without any failures. By twenty years from now a cat 2 storm would have the same effects as a cat 3 storm today.

So given all of this what do you think we should do?

And, FWIW, my daughter and son-in-law pay a fortune in rent in NOLA. There is a housing shortage and those apartments that have been redone have landlords participating in government subsidy programs. My daughter refused the application process for one such rental because she didn’t want to contract for random inspections and welfare. FEMA trailers look like home with that sort of thing happening.

I like the way you think. Of course though, innocent until proven guilty-we must remember that.

I agree with Ruth and suspect that allot – not all mind you but many of these people who are in these trailers now have a roof over their heads and it’s rent free so why not suck off the government tit till she dry’s out?

I also agree with Ray this place is a disaster waiting to happen! The levy system they replaced it with is a deadly joke and it’s just a matter of time before the next hurricane hits this place.

I say Relocate EVERYONE out until we take this serously and build something along the lines of the japanese have done with many of their coastal communitys you know with proper flood controls and levy systems along with pump’s that could drain a lake in under 2-minutes! We could save money by using prison labor move all the prisoners from CA, TX, NV hell lets just move them all there to work and within 2-years you could hit this place with a 1000ft tall tidal wave and it would take it and smile right back at ya!

Then we could start on our power infastructure use these prisoneers to help build our new power plants Nucular – Hydro – Wind. Hey they could even paint them over with all the graffiti they wanted this would keep them from from getting heart desease. Plus we need to keep them in shape for the new gladitor channel we would use for those that are just incuragable.

And Bob it’s coolaid and fast food baby!!!

The spelling aside the facts are the same. The simple fact is that had KATRINA hit New Orleans full force, anyone there including everyone in the dome would have died.

This fact makes the efforts we are going to in order to rebuild New Orleans very questionable.

It was Katrina, not Katerina… there’s no E…

The simple fact is that had Katerina hit New Orleans full force, anyone there including everyone in the dome would have died. Katerina also washed away a great deal of the coast which was protecting New Orleans. The coast is continually being washed away. Right now an f3 hurricane would do the same damage that an f4 would prekaterina That is a direct hit from an F3 would basically kill everyone there. And yet we are spending money to get people to move back there and allowing them to continue to live there.

That felt good.