We need to use some of these lower areas as flood retention areas, as places to collect the hazards. -Craig Colten

 

We need to use some of these lower areas as flood retention areas, as places to collect the hazards.


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The Cajuns uprooted from Canada and moved as a group to Louisiana. Vietnamese communities have reassembled after moving much farther. There is precedent for doing this.

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That may be good because we may be able to abandon some of those lower areas.

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We tend to build for the last storm. -Craig Colten
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We shouldn't talk about bulldozing the Lower 9th Ward. There are some homes that are still in pretty darn good shape.

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[The water especially devastated the Ninth Ward, among the city's poorest and lowest lying areas.] Out West, there is a saying that water flows to money, ... But in New Orleans, water flows away from money. Those with resources who control where the drainage goes have always chosen to live on the high ground. So the people in the low areas were hardest hit.

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We need to use some of these lower areas as flood retention areas, as places to collect the hazards. -Craig Colten
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Out West, there is a saying that water flows to money. But in New Orleans, water flows away from money. Those with resources who control where the drainage goes have always chosen to live on the high ground. So the people in the low areas were hardest hit.

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