Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
This is troublesome.
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The report already has ignited debate in Louisiana. If that state's coast continues to sink, its multibillion-dollar plan to protect coastal cities and wetlands from flooding has targeted the wrong problem, erosion. Every building on land certified as safe from flooding may, in fact, be in danger if Louisiana's benchmarks are flawed. And levees thought to protect New Orleans from a Category 3 hurricane might fail even if a moderate Category 2 storm struck the Big Easy.
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I cannot overstate how significant New Orleans is in my life. It is an intrinsic, and tragic, aspect of the city that our enjoyment of what it is and what it was is necessarilly ephemeral. Oftentimes, we are forced to reconcile romantic notions that reflect the way we wish things could be with circumstances that contradict our hopes.
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The report already has ignited debate in Louisiana. If that state's coast continues to sink, its multibillion-dollar plan to protect coastal cities and wetlands from flooding has targeted the wrong problem, erosion. Every building on land certified as safe from flooding may, in fact, be in danger if Louisiana's benchmarks are flawed. And levees thought to protect New Orleans from a Category 3 hurricane might fail even if a moderate Category 2 storm struck the Big Easy.
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I cannot overstate how significant New Orleans is in my life. It is an intrinsic, and tragic, aspect of the city that our enjoyment of what it is and what it was is necessarilly ephemeral. Oftentimes, we are forced to reconcile romantic notions that reflect the way we wish things could be with circumstances that contradict our hopes.
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