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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KLJ, post: 70205, member: 1910&quot;]In many ways, the problem of New Orleans is much like the problem for Devil&#039;s Lake.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.&nbsp; 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>&quot;I won&#039;t have power or water for weeks, but I can still drink!&quot;</i>).&nbsp; When the city expanded, it went into low-lying areas, just like in Devil&#039;s Lake.&nbsp; And testing our luck in the process.&nbsp; Occasionally Mother Nature will remind humanity we&#039;re not quite so powerful as we like to think.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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