Saints, 10 years later:
1. Is New Orleans fully recovered from Katrina? What is left to do?
2. If another storm along the same lines as Katrina were to hit today, how prepared are you? Will the result be similar, or completely different and improved?
Bump. Hey Saints, I was hoping you'd respond to this. Interested in your thoughts.
1. Yes and no. - Things are better in some ways, some are better, some are worse. A good chunk of our population and culture was lost. Hard to explain, it's like losing an arm but then graduating, getting a better income, marrying a hot wife, moving on.... are you better or worse, recovered or not?
2.
Most likely screwed. Katrina actually missed us. We have had similar storms in 1947, ~1915, ~1870, a couple times before that too, difference is we were built out over marsh and swamp that used to protect us. Some of the protection is better, a lot better. A good deal of the damage was on the feds who built crappy levees combined with lousy maintenance and corruption locally by the parish levee boards, and a lot of that has been fixed. It's a long, long, list of things that are better. But mostly we are sinking and no it's not due to global warming, it's due to oil companies tearing up our marsh and the leveeing up of the Mississippi.
Basically, we live on the edge, we shouldn't be here, one day we won't be.