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New Orleans - time to accept?
It's now two years since the hurricane flooded New Orleans; thousands are still living in trailers, only half the money promised by Bush has materialised and the city is still a stinking ruin with disease in every shovelfull of rubbish. Many have given up in despair at ever returning to normal. The city of New Orleans is a bowl-shaped depression that is below sea level and, in some places, only six feet above the water table. This is an inescapable fact that all must consider when working out if they have a future in the city. Hard as it is for some to accept, there is every possibility that the same thing could happen again. No levies could be high enough to ensure otherwise, and as climate change continues to worsen, sea levels are set to rise year on year with the inevitable likelihood New Orleans will succumb again, the next time could be even more disastrous than before. Coastal cities like New Orleans, positioned centuries ago to take advantage of sea-going good transportation, are going to be at risk of flooding as sea levels rise, and there's not a lot anyone can do about it. You can blame people for not looking after the levees, but at some point the very best made levees would be flooded, there are some things we just have to accept, and New Orleans demise is surely one of them. Goodbye New Orleans, the birth of Jazz happened there, but that's no guarantee it can survive forever. There are plenty more cities in the same predicament and there will be others taken back by the sea in years to come. |
http://thethirdbattleofneworleans.blogspot.com/2006/04/post-hurricane-katrina-new-orleans.html
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