The lowest of the low areas probably shouldn't be redeveloped,

The evacuation plan was really based on people driving out, ... They didn't have buses. They didn't have trains.

The evacuation plan was really based on people driving out. They didn't have buses. They didn't have trains.

That may be good because we may be able to abandon some of those lower areas.

The Cajuns uprooted from Canada and moved as a group to Louisiana. Vietnamese communities have reassembled after moving much farther. There is precedent for doing this,

So much has to happen, so many things have to come together,

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

We tend to build for the last storm.

We shouldn't talk about bulldozing the Lower 9th Ward. There are some homes that are still in pretty darn good shape,

We need to use some of these lower areas as flood retention areas, as places to collect the hazards.