New Orleans after hurricane Katrina?

life must go on. Return from the ashes tho.

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i'd move
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R1P
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Leave the area, and move the people elsewhere, evacuate everyone if you want them to stop looting. Btw does anyone else agree looting must be fun?

visionleague™

It's the same as San-Fransisco, Tokyo and many other major cities around the world built on a knife edge of environmental hazards. Rebuild and take into consideration the world around you.

Well everyone seems to be leaning towards rebuilding, which I don't completely understand. it's like getting punched in the face... and then asking to get punched in the face again. So next time we have a hurricane like this in New Orleans
(a city built below sea level... right next to the sea) we can experience more looting, rapes, murders etc etc. It's like we welcome these problems. And yes I have family that have been effected by hurricane Katrina, I know what it does to families. But welcoming that kind of thing to happen again, seems very counter-productive. But I guess we are humans, and thats what we do best.
Either way, I hope it works out in the best possible way, and I hope there are people wise enough to get out with what they have, for good.


j3
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I say rebuild.

+Carbon

Get your money and get the f-ck out of there.

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some people will return, some will find somewhere else to move to. in the end, it will be rebuilt and life will go on. i mean, since when has humanity realized on a grand scale that we aren't invincible?

Fenris [fen]
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Fenris is some kind of a genious..

rebuild it, and next time don't cut the funding to the Army Corp of Engineers can't maintain the levees for 2 years so you can go fight a useless war elsewhere.

colossus72 [c72]
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new orleans was sinking anyway. you can't rebuild.

move somewhere else.

Agree with colossus

2 weeks of the war's cost could have paid for the solution.

i say give them money and send them on thier way, because their way will most likely be away from N.O. and notto rebuild. if they're smart that is. i say let them decide what they're going to do.

Rebuild. But this time, make sure you take into consideration the possibility of Katrina, part deux. Maybe shift the city inland a bit, re-think the levee system; above all, ensure that nothing like this ever happens again.

lawless wasteland...

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An empty body but it still bled
Oil from the axle and it left a trail.
Ran down Java street and formed a pool.
Manuela saw the moon in there.

Im sure many will want to move away and many will be forced to. Move the city inward as much as possible and rebuild with better safety and protection in mind.

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FrostedFlames [FF]
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Have to agree with C72. Thanks Bush!

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Whatever ends up happening, I think everybody - from the residents of New Orleans to the federal government - needs to learn from what happened. I don't mean to say "they were stupid for building the city beneath sea level" or anything - New Orleans has been around for hundreds of years, and nothing like this had ever happened. The important thing for everyone to realize now is that it HAS happened, and we were given a serious wake-up call about the safety of our day-to-day lives, as well as our government's ability to respond to such an event. Almost no help came from the unorganized and ineffective response from state and federal forces, despite the fact that they had prepared for exactly such an occasion (a training scenario based around a fictional category 5 hurricane named "Pam" focused on how to conduct mass evacuations and other skills needed in EXACTLY the same environment caused by Katrina). To put it simply, if nobody learns from Katrina, all the death, destruction, and suffering will have been in vain.

My two cents (more like four)...I'm off to bed.

Isn't the city actually sinking? I'd be all for rebuilding, but you have to take certain things like that into account.

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The city isn't sinking afaik, it's always been just a couple feet (if that) above the water-line. Of course, being built on a swamp doesn't help matters... But, it's New Orleans. The tourism industry alone will probably pay for the re-building, in under 10 years.

Er, if you're below sea level, wouldn't that mean you're below the water-line?

Below sea level just means under ground level, doesn't necessarily mean water. The Grand Canyon, for example, is below sea level.

New Orleans is at a lower altitude than the surface of the water that surrounds it. It is surrounded by levees that hold the water back; when several of those levees broke, the water rushed in to fill the space below it. In this case, that space was the city. I believe that the water level in the flooded area had equalized with the level of the water in neighboring Lake Pontchartrain.

Here's a nifty diagram from Wikipedia that explains it pretty well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:New_O
rleans_Levee_System.gif

gotta rebuild! Luckly the french quarter wasn't that damaged, so there are more marti gras to go to yet!
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"Those who don't learn from history are bound to repeat it." - i don't know who said it.

They should not be allowed to rebuild. After looking at the diagram provided by preguicoso, I'm amazed N.O. was built there in the first place...
...Why is it that when victims of this disaster speak of Bush, they make it sound like he created Katrina and sent it upon them? It's not dubya's fault that the moron in charge of FEMA made some really bad decisions. Anyway, that's just my 2 cents.

Narco
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My bad: The diagram was provided in MaxZolt's post and not in prequicoso's.

Narco
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deuce is way off. The city IS below sea level and it IS sinking. That is why they keep adding levees.

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FrostedFlames [FF]
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^ Exactly. It's like 7 or 8 feet below sea level, and continually sinking. Those crappy levee's have been there since my parents lived there, and they never really did *too* much to support them.

NO was above sea level when first built. But it was built on river sediment, so It's been sinking ever since.

Narco: While I think people are disgusted with Bush for many reasons: http://www.iraqtimeline.com I don't think anyone blames the shrub for Katrina itself.

I want them to build a futuristic city, like in Akira.. Something cool, I mean cmon, its like 2005!! We need some floating cities damnit !