Ok, here's the plan

[sarettah]

Once they pump all the water out of the "soup Bowl":

1. Level all buildings in low lying areas.
2. Fill in the soup bowl with dirt. Right up to the top of the levees.
3. Pack it all down.
4. Plant trees, lawns, gardens.
5. Build new, up to code, housing on the newly created high ground.

Fix the somewhat lesser damage in the french quarter and downtown.

This would be a major project, but it seems to me we now have at least a couple of hundred thousand newly unemployed to pull in as a work force. Plus if it is done with the idea that the people that were living there are the ones that will be moving back, this would give folks who worked on the project a "personal investment" in their city. Plus imagine all the architects, engineers, construction folks, etc etc that would have new projects to bid on.

Now some of you might say it is too big of a job, but think of it, The Erie canal was dug mainly by hand, the panama canal was dug out by man and machine, Orlando was a swamp that they filled in, Cape Coral the same way.

We have done projects to that scale before.

So, why not ?