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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
The history is very interesting BUT, New Orleans and the surrounding area was sinking since before the city was founded and has sunk at least two feet since the 1970s according to more precise measurements, meaning that the entire area will have sunk about six feet in a century! At the same time the sea levels are not only slowly and steadily rising due to global warming but there are going to be more frequent and more powerful South Atlantic hurricanes occurring in the foreseeable future. The net result is that the continued habitation of New Orleans will be unsustainable in the medium term future since most of it will be under water very soon, perhaps as early as 48 hours from now! Even if the city is spared or rebuilt, it is just going to get flooded again and again over the next few decades and it would be easier to move the whole damn city than keep rebuilding it at some point.
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That's actually not entirely true, because only parts of the city are sinking, and they are sinking because the engineering of the levee's was half assed at best. The sea level of the french quarter is 5 feet above, wherein in Midcity it's 14 feet below. With the proper resources, and correction of the mistakes that the ACOF has now admitted to, New Orleans faces no imminent danger other than natural disaster.
The hurricaines and everything else are as much of a threat to any place in the gulf, as well as in the islands south of the US and large portions of the east coast resort towns.