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In many ways, the problem of New Orleans is much like the problem for Devil's Lake.
The city was originally built by French colonialists so that they could charge and collect tariffs on the things coming down the Mississippi - which was pretty much everything produced in the United States west of the Allegheny Mountains. That part of the city is the French Quarter, the highest part of town, which came through the disaster better than the rest of the city (last I heard there was still one bar open for business - "I won't have power or water for weeks, but I can still drink!"). When the city expanded, it went into low-lying areas, just like in Devil's Lake. And testing our luck in the process. Occasionally Mother Nature will remind humanity we're not quite so powerful as we like to think.
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