You have a couple of errors in your piece about New Orleans. In the first place, I remember the dikes breaking and the Ninth Ward being flooded only once in recent years and that was during Katrina. Secondly, it was essentially only the Ninth Ward that was flooded then with the remainder of New Orleans staying high and essentially dry suffering mainly wind damage. The Ninth Ward probably should have never been developed since much of it was 21 feet below the level of Lake Pontchatran, but it seemed to the politicians of New Orleans like a good place to put a large percentage of the black population as they became economically able to buy houses of their own. It was a good place to put them to keep them “out of sight and out of mind and in imminent danger of being wiped out, which seemed, to the politicians, the best part of the deal. This is the racist part of Katrina. The racist part is the reason the Ninth Ward was developed in the first place. It was not in response to the disaster by FEMA or the Federal and State Governments. Please don’t move! New Orleans is a beautiful place, and it is one of the best seaports, particularly in the South, but also in the nation with a direct connection via the Mississippi River system to the heartland of America. New Orleans is worth the investment of a little money in order to restore it after a natural disaster which can happen anywhere occasionally and will.