If I lived in New Orleans, I vote to move? the City out of the crater its in and move it on higher land. I don%26#039;t live there, but I feel so badly for the people who have lost their homes in the past, and now here comes Hurricane Gustav and they have evacuated that city.

I wonder if it is possible to rebuild the whole city up above sea level instead of trying to rebuild where it%26#039;s at, at below sea level where there is potential danger and destruction all the time from the weather. May be if there is enough of us to write a letter (to whom I don%26#039;t know, but I%26#039;d start with the Govenor of that State), to help these people rebuild on a more stable area to where they don%26#039;t have to worry every single year if this will be another year of destruction of their homes and loved ones.
What do you think? It%26#039;s as if we%26#039;re wasting money on rebuilding where its at now. I move to try and get their city moved and rebuilt just the way it is now, to a different location so that those people don%26#039;t have to worry about losing what they have worked so hard for.

Am I wishful thinking? Can this come true for these people...for New Orleans?


Wasn%26#039;t sure what catagory to put this question in, so forgive me if I misplaced it.

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5 days ago

Lets not talk money now...I know that will be the issue, but lets just talk about %26quot;WHY NOT?%26quot;

Who do you think keeps paying for all the repairs and rebuilding now???????

5 days ago

I KNOW it%26#039;s complicated!!!! But wouldn%26#039;t it be nice for those people?????? That is my point!

4 days ago

So many great answers! This question was just put out there for the mere thought of it and conern for those people. But your mention of people not wanting to leave and willing to stay there, is point taken. For me, too much of our tax dollars goes to rebuilding this city (in the same place), which gets destroyed almost every year. Why put in the effort if mother nature is just going to win? And then they want us all to pitch in and help. I can certainly understand wanting to keep the history of it, but by now you%26#039;d think that is all wiped out because of all the rebuilding they%26#039;ve done.
Some very good points here. And my comment about the %26#039;money%26#039; thing above is directed towards %26quot;Golden%26quot; because that%26#039;s all he/she said.
I was more thinking along the lines of the lives of people there and the constant upheaval of having to rebuild it all.

4 days ago

BW: Thank you for editing your answer and giving your reasoning behind it. Great answer too! :-)

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Most people haven%26#039;t bothered to look up the history, but Katrina was not the first hurricane to cause that kind of titanic damage to New Orleans.

In 1965, New Orleans was hit by Betsy, or Billion-Dollar-Betsy as she was called.

If you read about Betsy, she reads just about like Katrina.

I personally, have a SIGNIFICANT problem with the idea of paying BILLIONS of Federal Tax dollars for hurricanes 40 years apart. Now it seems as though Gustav is going to hit New Orleans a mere 3 years after Katrina.

If Hollywood people, jazz singers, athletes, rock stars, ect want to host fund raisers, and people desire to privately donate money to rebuilding New Orleans, well good for them. I think they are all idiots, but it%26#039;s their money, and they can spend it however they desire.

New Orleans is below sea level. New Orleans continues to sink deeper (slowly) as the years pass. New Orleans needs to be a giant rice paddy. The idea that Federal tax dollars should go to bail out (literally bail water out) and rebuild homes is complete idiocy.

If the city can find a nice piece of high ground to relocate onto, and the Hollywood type people are willing to pay to relocate the city...fine. I don%26#039;t believe Federal tax dollars should be spent on rebuilding, or relocating.

Gustav....third strike, and your out....game over....Mother nature wins. New Orleans becomes the swamp it%26#039;s SUPOSE TO BE.

~Garnet
Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

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Very insightful answer and I totally agree with you!

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• I agree, being below sea level, they are always in danger. I would never live their, but I have been there. Part of the city%26#039;s charm is it%26#039;s historic buildings, and land marks. I bet now day%26#039;s no engineer would sign off on how they built the city. It would probably be cheaper to build better walls, and pumping systems. By moving it, it would be like trying to recreate history, and call it the same, but it would not be the same.
• I think it%26#039;s a great idea. I have family and friends there,they tell me it%26#039;s home to them. But ,maybe this time more will relocate on their own. let%26#039;s hope so. But in spite of what they choose my heart goes out to them. this has to be hard. great question. and I stand with you.
• yea, we could rebuild the whole city on higher ground...probibly take about 1-2 million loads of clay/soil the size of the superdome and we could get right on it!.(phew!)
• Enough is enough if people want to live there then live there in a submarine or build a Jurrasic Park.
• and, who%26#039;s going to pay for this?
• Maybe the residents of New Orleans could petition their local government to have this put on the ballot. If they have many more destructive hurricanes like Katrina, they might not have any choice but to move the city of New Orleans some place else. I used to live in Florida, and one of the biggest reasons I relocated to North Carolina, was to get as far away from hurricanes as possible. But there are a lot of people who choose to live in Florida, as well as in New Orleans, who feel the risk of losing their life or their homes is very minimal, and they are willing to take the risk instead of moving like I did. This is a good question, and certainly may well be something the people of New Orleans will be forced to consider at some point. God bless!!!