[KenWittlief]

this is going to be a tough call. A lot of the citys infrastructure is still there, the streets and highways, the underpavement sewers and waterlines

but most of the buildings that were underwater will have to be demolished. So you will be left with thousands of residental blocks with no houses on them.

The decision seems like its going to rest on whether a levy system can be buillt that can withstand anything nature can throw at it, a Cat 5+ storm?

what else? there are fault lines in the area that cause earthquakes every 100+ year or more. A tidal wave? a terrorist attack?

Personally I would never live or work in a location that is below sea level, no matter how well they said it is protected., and I would not ask anyone else to either.

In may of 2001 I visited the World Trade Center. Standing near the edge of the roof top observatory I reallized that someday, sooner or later, those buildings would come down. They could not last for 1000 years, probabally not 500 years, so one way or another they would come down eventually.

It was a creepy feeling, being over 1000 feet in the air standing on something you knew was temporary.

We need to learn from these disasters and not set ourselves up for such things to happen again. And by learn I dont mean build stronger or better - I mean learn that there are forces of nature, and human nature, that we will never be able to control.