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Originally Posted by stekim
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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I disagree. The vast majority of areas below sea level on Earth are located in deserts and/or sparsely inhabited regions.
For example Death Valley in California. Another example is Lake Assal in Africa. This is one of the lowest areas in all of Africa. In this region this water evaporates rapidly because the climate there is one of the hottest and driest on Earth.
New Orleans is a liability waiting to happen. It is surrounded by water and in a Hurricane corridor.
I STRONGLY disagree that the government should invest one red cent there.
It's happened once.