A prescription for disaster?

Lately Hurricane Katrina has been in the news, particularly its landfall in the Gulf Area around New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina was a force 5 hurricane, one of the biggest, baddest hurricanes measured on the planet so far. It meant that it was capable of producing winds over 162 mph, and a phenomena I had learned about a "storm surge".

A storm surge in a hurricane of this type of a hurricane is almost as bad/or worse than getting hit by a tsunami. The Storm surge produced by a hurricane, creates really high tides, created by the low pressure in the eye of a hurricane. The low pressure in the eye of a hurricane acts like someone sucking on a straw, it tends to draw water up, thats why a storm surge produces high tides. In Katrina the storm surge was over 20 ft!! Plus add wind created waves , additional water by rainfall, the total storm surge was calculated at 28 ft. When the hurricane hits land I guess this excess water gets spilled on land.

Now add that the Hurricane was headed for New Orleans, city thats below Sea level.... in fact the city is protected by levees. One built protecting the city from a lake.. Lake Ponch-u-train, and you've got a Prescription for disaster.

I've never been to New Orleans. One always hear about the great food, seafood and the partying on Fat Tuesday. I've also heard about a weak and/or corrupt police force. Now I'm marveling about ..What kind of city planning allows for a major city, to be built and populated below sea level near a swamp near the gulf where Hurricanes have been known to frequent? Why hasn't this happened before? Maybe the people in New Orleans were lucky, skating on thin ice? What kind of City planners would allow this?

Whats to happen to New Orleans now? Will people go back there and re-build? I don't think you could build a levy that would protect the land there from a Force 5 Hurricane. I think somehow the people there were lucky that the damage wasn't worse, I don't know if I'd move back there...What's to protect New Orleaners from another hurricane of this type?

Addemdum; I guess there is something in common with My situation and all those victims of Katerina in New Orleans. Alot of people in New orleans lost everything, there homes, there jobs even some of there loved ones and it happened suddenly. My life here in California with my new job as been a disaster also, living in this Hotel has wrecked whatever chance I had for a career, Maybe when it should have worked . But things are so dysfunctional here in California it might as well be New Orleans to me.. Defamation of Character, in spite of the legal help I got with the California Department of Fair employment and housing, I'm still being terrorized, like I'm supposed to be some kind of HO. In spite spite of the fact that his is public housing ...the State nor most of its lawyers will do nothing to help me. It's a different kind of storm here, maybe in New Orleans it was an act of nature.

Why am I upset this time. I woke up this morning, and I heard some drug thug say, "Since he wont learn how to play, lets beat his ass". Thats been the tenor of remarks that I've heard around here since I've moved into my new room, and also. "Why don't you punk him? Presently I'm trying to work toward my "Pension" at me job, only 3 months to go, but I'm undergoing to much opposition and hostitlity here I'm thinking I should go now , I cant wait around too much longer..I dont want to get beat up again. Maybe it wont make a differance but then maybe it will, I'm in the process of getting another room at another hotel, though this Hotel is in this city and maybe too close for comfort where maybe thess drug guys could find me.
Maybe it time I should leave this disaster area also,but it seems I'm in the same situation as these people in New Orleans maybe it time to make that move.