Is New Orleans a write-off?

[Carrie]

Originally Posted by Mike AI

I honestly think NO should be abandonded, and be built 20-40 miles UP RIVER away from the lake. Cannot keep a city between lake, river with marsh eroding. Just will happen again. Human beings cannot toil with God and mother nature!

This is coming from someone who is a native. I am still not dealing with it yet, I am still in rescue crisis mode. It is surreal.

Hear hear. It's just not safe to rebuild it, knowing it will happen again. Next time millions could be lost.

Check out this link about the (sinking) levees and trying to hold back the Mississippi:
http://users.stlcc.edu/jangert/oldriver/oldriver.html

If another hurricane doesn't get NO, eventually the Mississippi will. She won't be held back forever. Between her and the hurricanes, it's just a matter of time.