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Philip Lewis wrote:
writes:

Rebuild NOLA in a sustainable fashion or abandon it.

There are plenty of architecture styles that are used world wide in
areas prone to floods. Stilts being one of them.

All new government funded construction should be done only to buildings in a
way that even if/when the levees fail again damage will be minimal.

Build *above* sea level and leave the lower area available for parking,
playground, etc.... the loss of a car/vehicle is a loss, but not as
life changing as the loss of an entire house.

What's happened there is horrible... If I'm paying taxes to help these
folks recover it needs to be done in a sustainable manner. But I object
to paying twice.

I say the same thing for florida... everyone should be building
concrete dome houses. If they did, insurance claims and rates should
decline.

I would think they would require restrictions for rebuilding there, some
kind of buy out and then not let residential buildings go up in the
flood plain areas, only commercial building, parking, etc that can be
built to withstand flooding and or levels raised above the flood levels.