New Orleans Is Flooded Again.

[kandrathe]

Because we can all just tell Mother Nature to go wreck some less-important coastal city.

I would mention something about the location of the city being somewhat less-than-intelligent, but something tells me that location is a bit too economically important to not have at least SOMETHING there :)
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It still is important for shipping on the Mississippi, but the people who are employed by the shipping companies would not need to live below sea level. New Orleans was also an important strategic military location in the early 1800's. It is an interesting cultural location with a rich history, but now days its mostly know as a haven for boozing and whoring.

The natural protections of the mangrove swamps and engineering projects up stream have made the city more unsafe. Add to that decades of dice rollingwith hurricanes, political graft, corruption. Now that the lucky streak has come to an end are we supposed to feel sorry for the city?

I have empathy for the people, and I think the outpouring of support from the region and nation was appropriate. But, in our country these types of problems are solved at the local level. Wenging about who knew that the levies were a problem 24-48 hours prior to the emergency is irrelevant since at that point there was nothing anyone could have done to save the city. 24-48 months in advance might have resulted in better preparedness for Katrina, but again, everyone in Lousiana and New Orleans knew that their levies were only rated for a direct hit from a Cat 3 hurricane.