“If there is another New Orleans out there, the public should know about it and should have to think about it”
Well, there is another New Orleans out there. It is inevitable. And we’re thinking about it now as much as we were thinking then about the first New Orleans, which is to say: not much. We think about disasters after they happen. That’s just how we are.
A national Disaster Review Board that encourages people to move? Please.
There are other places poised for disaster.
A Cat 3 hurricane hitting NYC (A big storm turning north could still be Cat 3 that far north) would flood Manhattan with 20 to 30 feet of water. It wouldn’t stay flooded - except in the subways, basements, etc. How would you evacuate NYC?
A Cat 4 storm or better hitting Houston - all you have to do is look at the evacuation mess. And Houston is relatively easy to evacuate given geography and the universal presence of personal transport.
There is actually an expectation of a large earthquake on the fault line that runs through the Midwest. This could impact St. Louis and other central cities along the lines of “the big one” hitting LA
Throw terrorism into the mix, and no place is really safe. At least no major city is really safe. Maybe it is time to move somewhere like Kansas.
Doesn’t Kansas have deadly tornados?