New Orleans- restoration or relocation?

[tracydani]

I am curious what people think the future response to this disaster should be. I am talking about after everyone is removed to safety and we can begin to focus on what to do next.

After the last several hurricane seasons I have thought about this and when the last one came that threatened to wipe out New Orleans I think I finally decided.

To me it seems irresponsible to take all of the money to re-build and invest it in an area that is likely to sustain massive damage or potentialy be wiped out again. I think this about certain areas of Florida and California as well, so I am not trying to pick on New Orleans

Give me your ideas on this.

Please keep it civil as this is not meant to start any fights, I am just curious if I am alone in this and what the average person thinks aside from me

TD

EDIT: I am not proposing the massive relocation of people in other areas before the fact, just what should we do in the future when these things happen again.

[Peerzy]

Move, even if a hurricane only comes along every few hundred years it means that every few hundreds of years thousands die and hundreds of thousands lose everything.

Either that or spend some money on building up a real protection that could realistically protect the city from a level 5 hurricane.

Also bringing hundreds of thousands of troops back from a certain middle eastern country to help with the rescue opperation might help.

[whypikonme]

Fill the whole place up, twenty feet deep, and start all over again.

[Santa]

its not as simple as that
people own parts of that land

[ziggyjuarez]

its not as simple as that
people own parts of that land

martial law is in effect

[cpt_azad]

Fill the whole place up, twenty feet deep, and start all over again.

That is pretty damn silly if you ask me. It could easily turn into a large quagmire.

They should def. consider relocation.

[Peerzy]

Meaning Americans finally get to go and shot anything they want. This must be the happest day in their lives for 90% of America (the other 10% being the ones who have lost everything and are being shot at)

[Cheese]

Meaning Americans finally get to go and shot anything they want. This must be the happest day in their lives for 90% of America (the other 10% being the ones who have lost everything and are being shot at)

Let us hope they are more discerning than the Yahoo news reporters...http://www.filesharingtalk.com/vb3/t101384.html

[whypikonme]

They should def. consider relocation.

That sounds pretty darn silly to me.

[Barbarossa]

Having water everywhere works for Venice, so why not turn it into an American Venice?

Think of how pretty all those canals would be, better than before, and all the extra tourism would be welcome I'd guess... (Hardly anyone would go to Venice if it wasn't for all the water)...

Just bring in a few gondola's and some ice-cream, all that jazz playing and gondola's drifting about would go together well I think..

It's perfect. Everyone's a winner. All the extra tourism revenue could go towards maintaining the waterways and giving everyone their own personal dinghy.