Reply #18: It would be a great cultural loss if the city were not rebuilt [View All]

However I'm not sure we have the will or the resources to do it RIGHT. From what I've seen on DU, almost no reconstruction has taken place and at this pace it will be YEARS before the garbage is removed so people CAN rebuild their homes.

In order to do it RIGHT we need to build the levees in such a way that they won't fail or overtop in the next hurricane and create an equally catastrophic disaster to Katrina. We also need hurricane evacuation centers and a whole infrastructure geared towards evacuation preparedness.

From what I'm seeing, it would be close to a WPA-level undertaking costing billions of dollars, and the political motivation seems to be lacking.

This is the worst American disaster of my lifetime, and I'd hate to see it repeated in 10 or 20 years.

Maybe it's for the best if the rebuilding occurs on a smaller scale than the size of the original city, and the evacuees try to create lives in their new towns.

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