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【正文】 he scientists make the task sound simple: build New Orleans 500year protection and restore its natural protection. Have the courage to cause inconvenience and economic harm to some in the name of protecting all. After all, Katrina was harmful too. Moving 30 million tons of debris was pretty inconvenient. And the next Katrina is a question of when, not if. Since Katrina, New Orleans has lost more than onethird of its population, and only two of St. Bernard Parish39。s 26 childcare centers have reopened. In the Lower Ninth Ward, floodwalls have been rebuilt and reinforced, but behind them stand blocks full of overgrown lots, where the remains of a gas meter or front step here or there provide the only evidence of the houses and lives washed away. I look at this, and I think of the shortsighted people who crippled a great city, Dashiell says. She knows that city needs better hospitals and more jobs. But first, better levees and more wetlands. Otherwise, it39。s going to need an obituary. Katrina Anniversary Becky Zaheri A group of revelers walk down Bourbon Street on Lundi Gras February 19, 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Chris Graythen / Getty For New Orleans to thrive, we need for you to care. Our citizens need to see your smiling faces, and our economy needs your business. The tourist areas have returned to their former glory, so e visit, and experience our city39。s unmatched flavor for vitality. When you return home, spread the word that our city is indeed alive and kicking. The situation in New Orleans is really one of relativity. There is no quick fix for such massive devastation, and no model for a recovery of this magnitude. As a result, some of the hardest hit areas of our city are still uninhabited. Be that as it may, the citizens who currently reside in New Orleans, and who have endured Katrina39。s aftermath, see nothing but progress. Two years ago, every inch of New Orleans was blanketed with trash and debris, and in some cases, homes were actually strewn about the streets. There was no electricity or running water, and our city was virtually dead. However, now the path is cleared, the lights are on, the grass is green, the birds are chirping, and many a nail is being hammered. I can say unequivocally, We have e a long way! New Orleanians certainly appreciate the challenges ahead, but this city runs through our blood, and we remain passionately dedicated to its renaissance. We are here because we believe, and now more than ever, we are truly proud to call New Orleans home. Becky Zaheri is a native New Orleanian, and stay at home mom, who founded the Katrina Krewe, which mobilized over 10,000 local, national and international volunteers to remove over 250,000 tons of trash and debris from the streets of New Orleans post Katrina, and the Krewe continues to foster anti litter awareness via its Keep it Klean! campaign. Katrina Anniversary Harry Shearer Small island of trees in Bluebon Swamp. Brian Miller / Ovoworks / Time Life Pictures / Getty I39。ll cheat enough to say New Orleans needs two things: a true hurricanefloodprotection system and the restoration of Louisiana39。s coastal wetlands. The Dutch have done it right — a stateofthe art system engineered to a 1in10,000year factor of safety. We39。ve been promised 1in100years, by 2020. As the Army Corps39。 own reports have proven, dividing responsibility, and dividing the costs, have just resulted in buckpassing, inertia, and a 40yearlong project that failed when faced with a storm that wasn39。t even The Big One. If we can39。t do it right, let39。s call in the Dutch. The wetlands have been our buffer against stronger storms. The good news is rebuilding the wetlands is not rocket science。 it39。s not even levee science. The nation has mitted to restoring the Everglades. We should do no less for the source of almost half of the nation39。s fresh seafood, if for no other reason than to avoid having to eat Chinese crawfish. Since Katrina, defenders of the Administration39。s tepid response and people who just don39。t like New Orleans have lectured us about not demanding handouts, about the necessity for pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. Actually, in the face of recalcitrant insurers and a homeowner pensation program that is just starting to disge pensation money from the statefederal maw, and despite the 200,000 still unable to e home because of lack of resources and lack of rental housing, homes and businesses are being rebuilt by everyone who has resources, friends and/or volunteers. The goodnews story is that, today, New Orleans is Bootstrap City. Born in 1943, this writer/actor is probably best known for providing many of the voices on The Simpsons, including Mr. Burns and Ned Flanders. He also costarred in This Is Spinal Tap. The former SNL writer/cast member is originally from Los Angeles, but keeps a home in New Orleans as well. Shearer writes a blog for The Huffington Post which focused mostly on issues in postKatrina New Orleans. He is involved in various groups which are part of the rebuilding process in New Orleans. Katrina Anniversary John M. Barry The I510 bridge goes over the Intracostal Waterway with the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet. Alex Brandon / AP The most important thing that people need to understand about the New Orleans area is the interplay between geology and engineering, and their unintended consequences. This involves two issues: how the city became vulnerable and rising sea level. Nature did not make New Orleans vulnerable to hurricanes. Engineers did. The sea once reached north to Cape Girardeau, Missouri. But the Mississippi River deposited enough sediment into the ocean to create 34,000 square miles of land — three quarters the area of Texas— from there to the sea. Engineers cut the natural amount of sediment in the Mississip