Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:52:43 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: thank you all
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Mike B. wrote:

>  At 07:59 AM 8/31/05 -0700, Drew Bittner wrote:
>
[...]
>
> > New Orleans will never be the same, even if they do rebuild.
> > Portions of the city may have to be declared uninhabitable for many
> > years to come, while others will be redlined and uninsurable for
> > flood or other disasters. In any event, we may be seeing the death
> > of a major city playing out in real time.
>
>  I don't know the geography there well enough, but is there some place
>  not too far away where they could relocate? It's still a major port
>  for transshipping from the Mississippi to oceangoing vessels and that
>  will be needed somewhere in that area. Perhaps a little farther
>  upstream?
>
>  There are reasons New Orleans is located where it is, and some of
>  them still apply...though power craft have changed things somewhat in
>  the last few hundred years.

Agreed.  Reports of New Orleans' death are premature.

--Ted White