The obvious question to ask is, who is going to rebuild it?

With billions of dollars sunk into the soil in southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, ... it's kind of too late. We're there, and we're staying there.

Before there were paved roads or railroads or airplanes or the Internet, there was the Mississippi running down to New Orleans.

There's absolutely no chance that New Orleans will go the way of Galveston. There's too much money invested there.

There's absolutely no chance that New Orleans will go the way of Galveston, ... There's too much money invested there.

We cannot live without it, ... A River and its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans.