"Easy Come, Easy Go"! The Big Easy Is Gone!

Let’s take a cold, objective, look at the situation in New Orleans.

Now, before I go any further, let me establish that I live in the "Hurricane Alley" of the Carolinas, so I know a little about hurricanes and the destruction they can bring.

The future is bleak for the once beautiful city of New Orleans. The location of that city was a huge mistake. I suppose we have it’s founders to blame for that. But now nature has presented us with an opportunity to correct their mistake.

Why not allow the sea to reclaim the land area upon which New Orleans stands.

Why not?

Who among us can guarantee that, if rebuilt, the next major storm, to roll in off the Gulf, will not decimate the newly rebuilt city?

Anyone?

And that’s my point. It is very likely that is exactly what will happen. It may be a few weeks, a few months, a few years, but it will happen.

Not to seem crass, but we (the American taxpayers) are going to pay for the damage to the Gulf coast. We understand that. We understood that as we starred down the barrel of the oncoming storm.

Look, anyone who lives on the coast, any coast, knows the sea is fickle. It will give and it will take. Every year we have miles of our oceanfront destroyed, or severely damaged, by storms from the Atlantic. We put back what we can and allow the sea to maintain ownership of that which it is too costly to reclaim.

In the case of New Orleans, the sea never relinquished her claim on that strip of land upon which the founders of that old city decided to build.

So, now the sea has laid claim, once again, to that which was taken from her.

Let her keep it. Let us move on.

As they say: “Easy come, Easy go!”

The “Big Easy” is gone. Let her “rest in peace” beneath the waves of the Gulf from whence she came.

“Longstreet”