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<blockquote data-quote="ezrider" data-source="post: 47966">Susie &nbsp;That doesn&#039;t mean that it&#039;s vital to keep it a tourist attraction by bailing out everybody that knowingly built in spots that were twenty feet beneath the sea level.&nbsp; Gambling casinos, luxury hotels, and 5-star restaurants are in no way essentials to ensure the survival of a vital infrastructure.&nbsp; Rare as this event is in recorded history, this wasn&#039;t a freak accident or cosmic coincidence due to some allignment of the stars.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Nature can be a remarkable thing, but it&#039;s lessons are often not pretty.&nbsp; And nature just gave us all a crash course in what happens when a society as a whole goes into denial about the facts of nature and it&#039;s power.&nbsp; The gulf coast of Louisiana has lost over 2000 square miles to the sea in less than a century.&nbsp; New Orleans will not get any higher in elevation and no amount of denial or stratfort report is going to change the course that nature has already charted for it.&nbsp; Eventually the delta is going to claim it regardless and it&#039;s not going to care whether any economic or strategic analysis deemed it one of the the wheelhorses of the present day economic machine. &nbsp;I&#039;m all for rescuing those trapped and aiding those who obviously need it, whether they couldn&#039;t or wouldn&#039;t escape at this point to me is a moot one.&nbsp; Nobody in thier right mind would keep pouring more of thier money into a stock they knew would eventually sink under water.&nbsp; Why should we do the same for a city who&#039;s destiny is no different? &nbsp;It can&#039;t ever be what it was for many reasons.&nbsp; The best reason among the many is that it wasn&#039;t meant to be as big as it was to begin with.&nbsp; I highly doubt many that left will even want to go back there anyway.&nbsp; They know there&#039;s nothing left now, and that there won&#039;t be anything left eventually anyway. &nbsp;It&#039;s a tough reality.&nbsp; No need to make it tougher by denying it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ezrider, post: 47966"] Susie That doesn't mean that it's vital to keep it a tourist attraction by bailing out everybody that knowingly built in spots that were twenty feet beneath the sea level. Gambling casinos, luxury hotels, and 5-star restaurants are in no way essentials to ensure the survival of a vital infrastructure. Rare as this event is in recorded history, this wasn't a freak accident or cosmic coincidence due to some allignment of the stars. Nature can be a remarkable thing, but it's lessons are often not pretty. And nature just gave us all a crash course in what happens when a society as a whole goes into denial about the facts of nature and it's power. The gulf coast of Louisiana has lost over 2000 square miles to the sea in less than a century. New Orleans will not get any higher in elevation and no amount of denial or stratfort report is going to change the course that nature has already charted for it. Eventually the delta is going to claim it regardless and it's not going to care whether any economic or strategic analysis deemed it one of the the wheelhorses of the present day economic machine. I'm all for rescuing those trapped and aiding those who obviously need it, whether they couldn't or wouldn't escape at this point to me is a moot one. Nobody in thier right mind would keep pouring more of thier money into a stock they knew would eventually sink under water. Why should we do the same for a city who's destiny is no different? It can't ever be what it was for many reasons. The best reason among the many is that it wasn't meant to be as big as it was to begin with. I highly doubt many that left will even want to go back there anyway. They know there's nothing left now, and that there won't be anything left eventually anyway. It's a tough reality. No need to make it tougher by denying it. [/QUOTE]

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