Good point. Given NO's location having a city there is a given. There is a boat load (pun intended) of commercial traffic on the Mississippi River, flowing into and out of the Gulf of Mexico. There are numerous cities all over the world below sea level. But the reasons for building in those places made the risk acceptable. Had Federal, state and local governments done their jobs, NO would not have flooded.

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