Bulldoze New Orleans?

I ran across a link to the NPR story that ran in 2002 regarding the loss of the wetlands in southern Louisianna. The forth part of that story deals with the hurricane risk to New Orleans. The disaster management people in NOLA were planning for the effects of a Class V hurricane hitting the city and were anticipating casulties of upwards of 100,000.

It looks like we avoided the staggering loss numbers that were predicted, but it appears that the city is basically gone. In the article, the disaster management people were quoted as saying that if the levees around the city break, the city will be flooded and basically unlivable. It seems like that is what has happened. They went on to say that the best course of action might be to simply bulldoze the city and rebuild somewhere else. I don't know if that is doable or if people who have lived there would even agree to it, but it still is damage on a scale that we haven't seen here in the US.

In any case, my heart goes out to the people who will have to live with the effects of this storm long after the media crews have packed up their bags on gone on to the next big story.