The Future of New Orleans...

[Shuckins]

...once the flood waters are gone.

I'll start this with a prediction...you continue it with your own additions or predictions.

Let's see how our posters think the future will pan out.

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One month after the flood waters recede, construction crews begin bulldozing the buildings and homes that have been flooded.

75% of the land is put up for sale.

[Nilsen]

The future is definatly on the horizon for New Orleans.

And im favor of that.

[lasersailor184]

The working district of New Orleans will obviously go back.  New Orleans is one of the most important cities in the US.


However, most of the lower class people aren't dumb enough to move back into slums there again.

Most.

[Fishu]

I think it's kind of dumb to continue building below the water level in an area where the next hurricane will strike again sooner or later.
Especially with the global warming yaddayadda.

Of course it's nice to see a city not get erased, it's just a pity to have it flooded again.

Everyone can do what they prefer, but I'll prefer to live above the sea level.

[Shuckins]

The slum owners will have a golden opportunity to make a bundle on the sale of their land...and they will not allow it to get away.

High-dollar condos will replace the old slums.

[Bruno]

And im favor of that

That's because you don't have to pay for it...

New Orleans is an important 'port' but not much of an 'important city'. The city itself was mostly a dump even before the Hurricane. Maybe the waters will wash enough of the slum away and it can be rebuilt 'new'.

It will be rebuilt just like they would rebuild and have rebuilt many a city that lives under the consistent threat of Natural disaster. There are plenty of historic examples of cities being rebuilt after flood, fire, earth quake etc...

Storms of the size of Katrina don't make landfall every year or few years. New Orleans doesn't get hit directly that often. Katrina was a 'record breaker'...

[Torque]

it will be interesting to see if the current admin drops those illegal socialized tariffs on canadian lumber to help the rebuild.

[Eagler]

NO will do just fine
just like San Fran, Galveston & Chicago to name a few
They will not rebuild the slums. many of its residents will end up staying where they have been relocated to.
The area downtown that gets rebuild will be some of the most expensive real estate in the South.

[Shuckins]

New Orlean's poverty rate will drop dramatically.

[BTW]

There is going to be about 70 -100 billion dollars funnelled through New Orleans in the next few years. I suspect a few business people reading this board will be relocating here. This will be a gulf coast gold rush. There is no ground as fertile as ground recently flooded. I see no difference here.

[dmf]

Originally posted by Eagler
NO will do just fine
just like San Fran, Galveston & Chicago to name a few
They will not rebuild the slums. many of its residents will end up staying where they have been relocated to.
The area downtown that gets rebuild will be some of the most expensive real estate in the South.

What I think is just maybe people will get smart enough to NOT live below sea level.
fish are supposed to live below sea level not humans.

[JTs]

no matter what they do the road will not be level with the bridge

[Holden McGroin]

Bourbon St circa 2025.

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by Bruno
That's because you don't have to pay for it...

Yes I do.

Every economy except maybe North Korea and some other small and isolated economies are going to pay for it.

[icemaw]

Unless the river delta is rebuilt by allowing the river to flood and deposit silt. Rebuilding is a waste of time!