What will happen when the next big one overtops the levees of new orleans, asks Dr, Jeff Masters former director of the National Hurricane Center in this article.
What happens to New Orleans’ levees when a Category 4 hurricane hits?
My answer on the link post he shared on Blue Sky: We return, like the tides. Better to live in New Orleans amid ruins that anywhere else in the United States.
As often happens this time of year for the last 20 years I work all a dream from long before hurricane Katrina and The Federal Flood. In this dream a hurricane has flooded the city, probably a memory of Betsy. I have evacuated but after I steal a sailboat in Mandeville and sail into the closed city landing at Bayou Saint John and said about living there, forging in the ruined groceries for canned goods.
We return, like the tides. Better to live in New Orleans amid ruins that anywhere else in the United States.
Was this an idle dream, or a prophetic one? I can imagine in my waking mind a city condemned after another great flood. I can imagine myself coming back in a boat. Hopefully the Bayou Saint John for Gates will be open, and I can drop the mast and motor up toward the head of the Bayou close to Bayou Road so I can easily reach the other holdouts I imagine mifhg cluster on the high ground of the Quarter and Bywater, a life like the river rats before they were driven off the batture, a life of crab and catfish suppers free from the demands of dying Western Civilization.
Well Bottom Blues 
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