Web Letters: The Lower Ninth Battles Back

By Rebecca Solnit

This article appeared in the September 10, 2007 edition of The Nation.

August 23, 2007

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  • The problem with this article is that it does not distinguish between above or below sea-level parts of New Orleans.

    It is foolish and cruel to encourage people to move back to parts of New Orleans which could be flooded--unless the areas are "floodproofed" which will take a decade at least even if we started today. (You can't really floodproof an area unless you rebuild the barrier islands and wetlands; and that is a mammoth task.)

    David Sucher
    City Comforts

    Seattle, WA

    08/31/2007 @ 11:31am


  • Heroic as it sounds, it is still utter stupidity to try to rebuild the parts of New Orleans below sea level!

    John D. Froelich

    Upper Darby, PA

    08/30/2007 @ 01:14am


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