Should we rebuild all of new orleans, or just those areas that we know will not have massive flooding again.?
139764
I dont know..i have a hard time with giving billions of dollars to a city where people chose to live below sea level and that will likely flood again in the future.  Many of New Orleans residence have found homes elsewhere and will not be returning. The ones that do should have insurance, right?  Why should we pay for them to rebuild?
1023670
No.  If government does anything, it should help to make more rental properties available to increase the supply.  This will reduce rents and help restore the city.  The city owns/holds many properties considered blighted.  This is from before Katrina.  Sell these off or clean them up and rent them out.\n\nTake other abandoned homes and do the same.  Encourage small business contractors to renovate rental units with grants, SBA loans, etc.  New Orleans banking is unique and steeped in history.  Maybe these local businesses can also help with easy loans and expedited processes.\n\nHow about take some of the empty projects (which are neat buildings) and partner with developers to renovate them into mixed-use housing?\n\nNew Orleans cannot afford any more government handouts, as they take decades to identify much less remove.
588949
I think Mayor Nagin does not really care about the people of New Orleans. I was there at the time the hurricane hit and I think he has other motives for remaining mayor. What has he done for you lately?
307821
I have been through Lafeyett,La. Not much their. La. Got hit so hard by Katrina Hurricane, they all have not recovered yet, I would wait another 1-2 before moving their.
122625
The effects of flooding are like in New Orleans: devastation.\nTo prevent flooding we should avoid the greenhouse effect to get worse by controling and reducing the CO2 emissions which are causing stronger environmental disasters like the ice caps melting for instance.
384489
You can't control mother nature.\n\nIf it were possible, Katrina would not have existed
584851
The chances of that happening are getting better and better each passing year. Gloria hit NY in the 80's, and scientists are saying within the nest 5-10 years,NY will be blasted beyond belief. Hey! They were right several years ago about New Orleans, and no one bothered to listen. Is anyone listening now???
1181314
The people of New Orleans!! I want to say up front I have nothing to do with that cespool of sucmbags. Save the money, & let the "Chocolate City" turn into Atlantis......\n\n6/27/06 The lawlessness, the disfunction, the looters, killers. Hell now they need the National Guard to protect a city with fewer people than before. The Mayor is useless and the football team sucks. Do I need more?
1174440
If New Orleans is rebuilt under sea level the only insurance available will come from the Federal Government and taxpayers will continue to build it over nd over again. If it is built back Allstate will never pay a claim. I doubt they will sell insurance there again.\nIt is just a matter of time before it get hit again. It would not surprise me if it get hit again this Hurricane Season. I say Flood it and build on higher ground.
615594
I'm here.  So are lots of other people.  No, we are not still under flood waters.  Yes, a lot of the city was destroyed and still lies in ruins.  Come see for yourself.
986576
How about doing a search on Hurricane Katrina.  the issues there were huge\n\ngood luck
196223
how about the LACK of land in new orleans and how it's a fishbowl that never should have been, but since it IS a city (thanks to the government) it should be taken care of like a ciy (land) and NOT waistlands.\n\nor we could go to california.\nthe tree roots keep the land intact. when the trees are taken away from the land the land has nowhere to go to but to the ocean - can anyone say MUDSLIDE?\n\nwith the glacier melting we will have less land\n\nhow about how the native americans were (are) being treated when a bunch of foreigners came here and STOLE our land?  'wounded knee' ring any bells?
279563
As far as I know, they all still exist, although some of the land may have been washed away.  The area near Plaquemines parish, Jefferson Parish, and Orleans parish were hard hit by Katrina.  Now they are just a little "Poorish".
33414
That depends if the government decides to make the same mistake again. It's the sad truth that very rarely does mankind actually learn anything from there mistakes. I find that rather pathetic. But maybe that's just me. I just wonder how many times that place is gong to be flooded and rebuilt before they remember their physics 101. When you build a city below sea level chances are, it will flood in a hurricane!!!
107225
There are alot of questions here so I'll try to answer them all.\n\n"When New Orleans was hit with the hurricane and wiped off the map, in my heart I felt I should give money to help the people. That was just common nature for a U. S. citizen to naturally do for our country or other country's around the world no mater what type of government they have in place." \n\nI feel two ways about this matter.  One is this Country gives to much monney to other Countrys and not enoth to this one.  But at the same time the people in Orleans where asked to leve and did not they had two weeks to pack up and leve but they did not.  What could we have done when so many people picked not to leve?\n\n"What I am concerned with is if the money I gave, got to a PERSON from that specific state or other country I sent the money to?"\n\nQuestion?  Who did you give you're money to?\nJust waching MSNBC and they said that there was alot of "fraud and abuse" that people where doing over there.  (check out url for more info.)  Makes you feel just a tad less sorry for these people.\n\n"Why is it that our government can't take responsibility and pay up, for there mistake in the first place. From what I have read, it was known that those levies could not hold a category 4 or 5 hurricane years or decades ago, but failed to strengthen them back when it was first discovered? \n\nI don't think any mistakes where made.  The truth is that  New Orleans is sinking as it stands now New Orleans is lower then sea level.  The reasons that thoes levies have not been fixed are one the cost is to grate for a city that is sinking and two they don't even know if it's posablem to fix them.  Even if they are fixed and we get another "Katrina" it's posable for this to happen again and again.  "IF" we do fix these levies we are putting peoples lives at risk.\n\n"Do you think it was rude of the two presidents to ask us to give more money when it is our nature to give, even until it hurts?"\n\nDo I think it's rude?  No, I don't.  \n\n"Did you help when 911 happened ?"\nYes, but I feel as if it was not enoth\n\n"or Live Aid?\nor Live8?"\n\nLive Aid, No.  Or Live8 don't know what that is.
1027018
The only thing I agree with in your post (not really a question) is that we should spray-paint(sic) the buildings that have still never been repaired. Maybe they'll look better spray painted.
1132321
We certainly have had our share of rain.. I've been pumping out my cellar for nearly two months!  Rt 1 was closed last week for flooding. CERT (the community emergency response team) has been called to action twice so far, just to help with flood control. \n\nNo need to worry though, all in all we're doing OK.