Even though comments like that sound cold and heartless I don't care if they're cold and heartless. I care if they're ignorant, and they are. I can answer that question. Yes, there will be a city of new orleans. Next question. that is a legitimate question many decision makers have to face No, it's not. We shouldn't shoot a person who says what many are thinking. Who said anything about shooting anyone? And many people are thinking "will there be a new orleans"?. Then many people are clueless. what can really be done with a below-sea level area that has suffered such devastation? Well, one, only part of the city is under sea level (45 percent, I think), and as bad as it was, the sections most people think about when they think of new orleans were not flooded. Also, saying "oh no it's under sea level" isn't really the story here. It was a tragedy, and it's complicated, and this really isn't the site to discuss it. But asking if the city will exist, if the city will be 20 ft. under water, are worthless. Will the city be able to support an nba team, or the all star game, those are legitimate questions. This: is there even gonna BE a city of new orleans then? in all seriousness, the whole place might be 20 ft down. i guess they'll just move the game to okla city. Is not.
I wasn't saying the questions asked, in the exact way they were phrased, were correct. But someone would have to be naive to think every business or corporation, not to mention sports franchise, isn't extremely concerned about this issue. Add to that the way the city ranked when it came down to disaster relief? It was, is, and will continue to be, a huge nightmare. Ignoring the potential devastation a storm like Katrina would likely do to that area was one gigantic, unforgiveable oversight by the current president, as well as those before him.
