Monday, October 22, 2007

New Orleans

Kelman's analysis shows that he does not think New Orleans should be rebuilt. He discusses how they thought it was a safe place and how they thought they were moving all of the people into a safe environment during the storm but even that was destroyed. He does not think it should be restored because it is not safe, water is constantly rushing in and flooding New Orleans and the only way available to protect it also damages the location because water is hard to get out then. levees are supposed to keep the water from the Mississippi River out; however, they dont always do that and massive floods are the result. Kelman feels that the damage to the city is too strong and there is not a sufficient plan to contain the water so the area should not be rebuilt.

1 comment:

Katie D said...

I agree with you when you bring up the point that they thought the Superdome was a safe place to evacuate residents to; however, it ended up in disaster. He does make the argument that there is no good plan or possible solution to the flooding problems and infers that the best option is to not rebuild New Orleans.