My suggestion for rebuilding NO.

[FloridaPat]

If they are going to flatten some to all of the homes there, what they should do is take all the building debris throughout the area, chop it up and dump it in NO. Including the homes they are taking down. That would have a place to put everything and hopefully raise the city a few feet. Then add a few more feet to the city and get it higher. And I'm sure engineers can come up with some more ideas to make NO less prone to water damage.

[Nobody]

1. Bring in engineers from the Netherlands

They have a lot of cities lower than sea level and their dikes are built to withstand the storms they get.

They're experts in this type of engineering.

[DELUSIONAL]

3. Yep -- I suggested this on another thread!

but I used Holland rather than Netherlands.

Point is THEY have done it -- THEY are the experts.

But golly gee -- can anyone imagine the bushies asking an expert for help?

[KerryOn]

4. The Netherlands has already offered...

... to show us the proper way, as part of their disaster relief to us.

[Winston702]

2. well...

This was the method on which much of San Francisco is built. If the New Madrid ever let's go, the ground liquifies and all the buildings fall.

The New Madrid Quake has been predicted.

[BringEmOn]

5. A New Deal style WPA/CCC program to rebuild

I can dream, can't I?

[thethinker]

6. There is no reason to tear down the houses

I went through a FEMA training program after Houston was flooded. They had low interest home improvement loans available to home owners. They trained a lot of people to inspect the homes, figure the costs of repairing drywall, etc.

There is no reason to tear the houses down. The vast majority of these homes can be repaired if the homeowners are given the money to repair them. If the home owners can hold on to them. That will be hard because they have sent the home owners across the country to shelters. They have the clothes on their backs, no job and their mortgage payment is due every month, as is the credit card bills and car payments.

In the Gulf coast, many homes get flooded when we have hurricanes and too much rain. There are homes here that flood every few years, regularly. That has not happened to these houses in NO.