Coastal Disaster Zones: How Much Rebuilding?

i guess something like the Delta works in Holland

"New Orleans faced total destruction for the second time..."

Total destruction???? TOTAL DESTRUCTION???? What total destruction?

This sounds like another main stream media report that uses every superlative in the AP guidelines while ignoring any thread of fact. Were they writing copy for Geraldo?

Seriously, if I had my druthers (which I obviously don't), I would've just filled in all the lower lying areas of the city (9th Ward, etc) that were flooded. The higher areas, like the French Quarter, were not seriously affected by flood waters.

Raise it up, or desert it, IMO. Just don't ask for any more of my tax dollars to put it back the way it was, and then ask me for more the next time it happens.

Hooker

AMEN!!! FIX it or desert it! Enough tax dollars on building sand castles at low tide and, after it washes away at high tide, wondering why it washed away while building another in the same spot.

The Bible has a parable about a wise man and a foolish man building houses.

Matthew 7: 24 through 27.

I still cannot fathom how much attention is given to the flooding of New Orleans after Katrina than the worse problems encountered by the winds and storm surges up and down the coastline!! Over 220,000 homes and commercial/public buildings were destroyed by the wind and storm surges, and less than 75,000 were condemned after the floods.

If the buildings had better frames, over half of the destroyed buildings would still be there, and most of the Evacuees would have returned to their Communities and be working instead of committing all the crime going on there today!!

I have written the City of New Orleans and all the Governors in the region several times about a new building and structure frame structural innovation and improvement that gives the Builders an easier and more affordable method of installing frame reinforcing, that adds enough strengths and resisliencies for the buildings (any size/type) and structures to survive both the wind forces of hurricanes and the impact forces of the water rushing from the storm surges, and have not received any type of responses other than mockery and put-downs.

I've noticed that New Orleans is less than half-repopulated, going broke, and still in full vulnerability to oncoming hurricanes. Gustav and Ike this year destroyed another 100,000-plus buildings this year, and hardly a peep out of the media again!!

The Building Engineers and Architects are so lost on how to improve building frames that they let the Army Corps of Engineers "make the call", on how to improve the buildings, which was to elevate them. Wow, avoiding the floodwaters to get whacked by the windforces!! Double Jeopardy for New Orleanians!! They are now NOT protected from flooding, as when the hurricane blows the elevated houses off their piers, the houses will fall over sideways into the floodwaters!!

I guess the thinking was to save a few bucks by eliminating helicopter rescueing!!

Check my profile if you want to learn about continuos reinforcing systems that saves the Builders, Owners, Lenders, Insurers, and Communities all kinds of money in all areas of Construction and Property Development and Ownership. Oh, and just might save a few injuries and lives, too.