Why should New Orleans be rebuilt?

[Andy L]

Fiji,
I like that.

I live near Lake of the Ozarks. Now, its not the ocean, but it does have 1200 miles of shoreline, so its no pond either. N.O. would be like buying a lot in the back of a cove and building a basement house on it. Now, if you put your levees just right, you will be fine, most of the time. Full Pool is 660' above sea level. They normally keep it under 658'. Not much over 659'. But, since there is another huge lake, even bigger, Truman Lake, on the upper end of this lake that dumps into it and its got all the drainage from Kansas, basically, from the Osage River, sometimes it gets a little higher than they want.

Now, would you feel safe with this house? Knowing that the jet stream could get just right to flood Kansas and Missouri for a week and your going to be under water?

Well, same thing.

Andy