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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joey Hedrick" data-source="post: 542727" data-attributes="member: 61643">If the recent trends continue, and unless a monumental effort is undertaken to ensure the safety of the city, New Orleans will eventually need to be abandoned.  It's surrounded by water that's higher than the city itself, it's sinking, and they've been relying on a few levees and pure luck to avoid complete disaster for decades.  Nature will always win, and it's constantly upping the ante.  If this were some run-of-the-mill average city, it'd be a no-brainer to suggest, you know....moving....but with it being such a unique place, it's going to be very difficult for anyone to make such a suggestion.  I fear it's going to take a few more of these massive disasters for anything to change.</blockquote>