Hurricane Issac Arrives on Katrina's Anniversary: Is New Orleans Going to Survive the Next Century?

I've never been there, and would love to visit someday, but....being built below sea level at the edge of the gulf...is that really a good idea?

I don't know. If you folks in NO really and truly HAVE to be there, I suppose do what you will, but don't ask me and the rest of the country to absorb your flood risk any longer.

At least some of it like the French Quarter which was built above sea level.
But I want to know what happened to the Dutch engineers? Were they ever consulted? You know, I mean *Duh*. Post-Katrina it should have been a no-brainer.

Highly unlikely. Iquestion the wisdom of biulding a city 6 feet below sea level and wondering why ther is a flood.

Unlike the levee in plaquemines parish that was built by a private company, New Orleans' levees we're built by government under regulations and will stand

But with fewer people.

Other than the french quarter, New Orleans is sinking. You got to climb a levi to understand that parts of NO is over forty feet below river level, sea level... if you go to visit, go dancing on frenchman street for me

It will probably survive, but I have to say if nature keeps giving you hints to not stay there and you ignore it, well....just sayin'

I definitely don't think Isaac will destroy it. If all the hurricanes that pass it are level 2 and below, I don't think it should have much of a problem remaining highly populace and well-functioning. If I were running New Orleans like a business, I wouldn't pay to re-create Atlantis every-time a class 3 or 4 hurricane comes through. Good thing Florida and Cuba give the possibility of a little land to take away some of the hurricanes energy, though.

After nearly 1 trillion in spending EVERYTHING in NOLA should be built to withstand a nuclear blast.

After the much cash was tossed around, everyone there should have a safe dwelling a well rebuilt levee and no worries EVEN THOUGH THEY LIVE BELOW SEALEVEL and expect the rest of us to ALWAYS pay for their self created problems.

Mayor Nagin was given the money to fix the levees to a specification HE wanted while Clinotn was pres, he decided to help finance some casinos instead. THEN blamed the fed when the levees failed-typical of him.

HE refused to allow the busses to be used to get people out-then screamed it was Bushes fault they drowned.

HE refused to allow the AntGuard INTO Nola after the hurricane, until a news reporter blamed Bush for the suffering and Nagin HAD to allow it.


NOLA is a self inflicted gunshot wound on the rump of America with it's political choices.

i WISH the FED had allowed the ocean to reclaim it's own and told people to move, like they have in the midwest flood plain and in the south near the Chattahochee and Choctawhachee rivers.

several of our family members were forced to move away from their riverfront after the Caryville flood-fed payed then face value, told them to move. Period,. NOLA should be the same thing.

Maybe. They might survive. Fate will take its course. :)

I think this poll question is ridiculously insensitive, and that's all I'm saying.

Maybe so, but a realistic question.

I understand that, but its still in poor taste. Did it have to be asked on the anniversary while they are currently being hit by another one? =(

You could have ignored it and not answered.

Ignoring it doesn't make it less insensitive. You could have ignored my comment and opinion, but you didn't.

You better get use to life. You are too sensitive which makes you unable to cope with reality.

Hey I'm giving you sound friendly advice. You can choice not to consider it, I could care less. Give yourself and ulcer, no sweat off my back.

I don't need your advice. I didn't even need your opinion on my comment in the first place. But SH is full of trolls like you. Go somewhere.

You need that advice more than most people. My youngest daughter is about your age, She took my advice and has improved greatly. She now is begining to enjoy live more. It also seems you are to paranoid to know what a troll is.

Bye, I wouldn't was my time. Enjoy you ulcer.

Himm I thought I said BYE!

Himmm A troll.

A very weird troll.

It remains to populations of neiehboring states Luisiana and prepare to match this danger is cyclical. Technkians have the means and are prepared to face a possible disaster and as always the city of New orleans suffers the consequences.

Unfortunately, yes.

I think New Orleans is an excrement-hole of a city, rife with poverty, crime, and political corruption.

If the city has to be rebuilt, they should turn the old city into a national park, and move the city out of the bowl that's below sea level, and more inland onto higher ground. When the city has been pounded into underwater sludge twice in 7 years, common sense says you don't rebuild it again below sea level. The smart people left in 2005.

Of course New Orleans will survive. Louisiana wipl continue to persevere through anything that's thrown at us. Thinking that New Orleans would EVER cease to exist seems extremely stupid to me, but I guess it may be because I live in LA and know our culture.

maybe if they clean up some of their ways

what do you mean by that? what does cleaning up their ways have to do with surviving hurricanes?

Insensitive. You call yourself a Christian. God said to love them and not condemn them. You should read your bible.

Although with rising sea levels, who knows? A lot of cities around the world might not make it.

Observe this? Mandatory evacuations and the traffic department doesn't even take the time to turn BOTH SIDES of the Highway into a same direction theme. Has anyone else thought why this is? Look at the picture and observe the other 3 lanes that could be used to evacuate citizens. Look at the people milling about on the full side of the highway. Obviously things are at a standstill here!

Just more people leaving and Houston crime rate rising. Sad but true. Willie Nelson - city of New Orleans ...good morning America how are you?

the dam place is 15 foot below sea level ...when the FED goes bankrupt local government will not use its own money to keep up the levies and it will sink ! But who cares any way the place is an unwashed hell hole of a dive where human live is short and ugly .

December 21, 2012 is within a few months no one will survive the next year.. Right? Aliens are going to come down and blow up the earth. Monsters long buried will rise and wreck havoc. It is the apocalypse.

A hundred years? How they do I know what will happen in a hundred years. Ask Nostradamus.