Saving New Orleans

Here is a very rational, well-reasoned post on Plastic on saving New Orleans. Long story short, it can be done, but we're going to have to get help from the same federal government which refused to properly fund the levee system in the first place, the same government that handed over $250 million to build a bridge in Alaska to an island of 50 people, the same government that took about 5 days to save people after the disaster.