With Coastline in Ruins, Cajuns Face Prospect of Uprooted Towns - New York Times

With Coastline in Ruins, Cajuns Face Prospect of Uprooted Towns - New York Times:


Move these people. It's the right, though painful, answer because it's foolhardy for U.S. taxpayers to pay repeatedly for damage from hurricanes.

"Now Louisiana planners are proposing an idea that would have been unimaginable here a few months ago: moving an entire string of seaside towns and villages - and the 4,000 longtime residents who live in them - 15 or 20 miles inland to higher and presumably safer ground.

'If we could get 100 percent participation, which admittedly is extraordinarily difficult, if possible at all, we could conceivably take the entire population of Cameron Parish largely out of harm's way for future events,' said Drew Sachs, a consultant to the Louisiana Recovery Authority. He has been asked to develop bold suggestions for rebuilding the state's coastal region in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita."