Not looking good. I heard from a friend in the city this morning who's headed out of town in advance of this thing already:
Labor Day in New Orleans
Wednesday August 27, 2008
Categories: Louisiana, the Great State
Filed Under: Gustav, New Orleans
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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"I'm pretty sure it's possible to move railroad tracks, warehouses and ports, as well as build houses, in a safer place. I do feel sorry for people who feel attached to such places and all they have lost, but it does seem a bit odd from the outside to think that it's necessary to live in a place that has proven to be geographically uninhabitable. "
The geogrpahically uninhabitable part can and must be reversed
"I'm fine with New Orleans rebuilding itself, people rebuilding towns on flood plains, beaches, in forests, whatever, as long as *they* pay for the insurance or bear the risk of it being destroyed again. I'm fine with federal assistance after disasters but funding a rebuild? No thanks."
THe battle right now is to get insurance. I think people see Louisiana and just see the French Quarter at times. Most people do not realize this is a very working Coast in a fragile environemnt. The Seafood, all that pil and Gas, the shipping on American's biggest Highway (the mississippi river) is crucial for the health of this country. It is a national security issue. That stuff is not done by robots and communities have to be there to support it
Does this mean that Gustav will finish the job?
While we're abandoning New Orleans, make sure we dump L.A and San Francisco first, because they're going to go in a bigger way within 30 years than N.O. ever did.
A meditation on being at peril from the sea in a land past its prime and full of spite.
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