What and how long would it take to clean up New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina?
New Orleans is an environmental disaster and isnt a safe place to live now or for many years to come. It would at the very least take eight years to make it liveable again. The levees would need to be rebuilt to higher standards and it doesn’t appear this will happen anytime soon. The plans now are for repairs to the existing levees. Imagine putting people back into this disaster zone and another hurricane of equal or greater force hit the city. I shudder to think that people might believe a government that tells them its a place safe when in fact the government allowed this disaster to kill so many people. The flooding and the deaths could have been prevented. Who would you trust, when for years the safety and well being of many in New Orleans was an issue that had been completely ignored by governments at all levels? The poor neighbourhoods were drowned even though the powers that be knew the risks were high. The Times Picayune in a November 2005 article states that there are in addi
