This close…

A lot of people are very thankful that Gustav was a cat 2 and not a cat 4 like it could have been, those levee’s don’t look like they could have taken much more. I am glad the city didn’t flood, and I can only hope that everyone makes it though the rest of the season unscathed, but this raises a series of very hard to answer questions. Is it wise to build that close to the sea, and that low, especially when you throw global warming induced weather and sea level into the mix? Are levee’s enough? Do we need to restore wetlands? Has the federal government and local government done enough to secure the people of this region? I don’t know the answer to all of these, but those pictures paint a very very uncertain future for this region and this city.