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Originally Posted by JeffR
That's going to take a long, long time, though. Most of the buildings in the city will be flooded for days at best, maybe longer, barring some miracles in getting the pumping system working again. A lot of them will wind up structurally damaged beyond repair, or uninhabitable because of mold or other contamination. The reconstruction effort will have to be huge; I can't think of anything comparable other than maybe bombed-out German and Japanese cities after WWII.
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Yes, I agree the recover will take time, but it will hardly be forever. Many of the old buildings in the French Quarter are made of store. They will survive, as will the people.