Water flows over New Orleans levee

CNN reports Water poured through a breached levee protecting New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward on Friday, flooding the low-lying but largely empty neighborhood that was devastated last month by Hurricane Katrina.

Is anyone stupid enough to suggest that they should make another attempt to rebuild the levees to protect that part of the city that is 7 to 15 feet below sea level? Build a levee to protect the French Quarter and those parts of the city that are above sea level, but tear down the other levees and form a new Lake Orleans, and build any new housing in a new city thirty or forty miles away, on land that is above sea level.

An 8-foot storm surge from approaching Hurricane Rita overtopped a damaged section of the Industrial Canal levee where the Army Corps of Engineers had made temporary repairs, Brig. Gen. Robert Crear said. The rushing waters appeared to have pushed aside any sandbags or other temporary barricades that had been placed there to plug the breach.