New Orleans will be back.

[Cascadian]

I cannot believe there are those who think New Orleans should be abandoned permenantly. I think it would not be right nor productive. In it's history, New Orleans has survived a great fire, a plague, a Civil War, and a Depression. In time, they will be able to clean up and rebuild that great city.

Hold your head up, New Orleans. You will be back!


John

[caligirl]

1. They would have to find away to restore the erosion

of the marsh areas eroded over the years. The way they diverted the water the erosion has put this in question. You can rebuild there, but the same problems will be there.

[jobycom]

3. Problems just cry out for solutions, though

I grew up on the Mississippi Coast. They had hurricanes wipe out everything every twenty years or so. Each time the coastline would change, and half the city would wash out to sea. People said they had to live with it or move. Instead, they built a 26 mile long seawall, filled sand along it to form a beach, and made it into a tourist attraction.

New Orleans will be back. They may need to find creative solutions to their unique problems. But that's just part of the fun. They'll get a few engineers to sit down in Pat O'Briens, gulp down a few hurricanes, let the jazz carry their minds away, and BAM! A solution will come to them.

New Orleans has been here since before there was an America, and frankly, even in its current state, I think it will be here long after America is gone. Which may not be very long, if we don't stop electing Texans. (I live in Texas, I can say that.)

[puddycat]

2. New Orleans will be back better than ever

people will have new houses and new hope. Only the stupid (i.e. Hastert et al) think it shouldn't be rebuilt. With Hastert's reasoning then we couldn't rebuild anything after earthquakes in California, or wildfires in California, or tornadoes in the mid-west etc. Its ridiculous. The Netherlands sits almost entirely below sea-level as I recall and I don't see them abandoning their country every time it floods.