Re: What will N.O. be like 6 months ?
[ QUOTE ]
If they don't have the levies, can they even have a city there?
[/ QUOTE ]Its a tough balancing act. I know that there have been a lot of studies and work done to try and solve the problem. I think that when the city was smaller, it wasn't so much a problem, but as it grew, and with the near annual flooding, the levies were built. I have no clue when this happened. The citizens got use to having them there though, and it took a long time for the effects of the levies on the delta to materialize. Experts had been warning though about stuff like this for a while. There was even a recent(perhaps 6-8 months ago) article in National Geographic about this very thing. I personally don't think this problem can be solved by simply building bigger levies. This is a tough call, but really, that city should not be there.
|