>
> Very unlikely. The Mississippi river is the largest transportation
> route in this country that moves billions tons of goods from the sea
> to the center of this land and vice versa. It's got to have a large
> port at its mouth - hurricanes or not. NO might not be rebuilt in
> the shape it existed, as for example it happened to the city of Santa
> Cruz, CA after the 1989 quake - a hippie town that was rebuilt as an
> outdoor suburban mall (yuk!) - but it will certainly be rebuilt as a
> port and industrial city in one form or another.
>
> Wojtek
>
Worse.... The "suburbans" themselves came to the mall, and stayed. The earthquake was used as a reason to re-develop Santa Cruz in a completely ..."soul-less" consumer manner. No vision of community or future, a dysjunction in the history of the town that was ruthlessly abused by so-called "progressives"
If Santa Cruz is some kind of model for the future of New Orleans (if it IS recoverable to any degree), New Orleans will never see a real Mardi Gras again... But it will have it's "cash cow", the port.
Leigh www.leighm.net