Reply #3: A Scientific American article from around 4 years ago posits your case [View All]

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Title: Drowning New Orleans.
Authors: Fischetti, Mark
Source: Scientific American; Oct2001, Vol. 285 Issue 4, p76, 10p,

(via shamus and ogre at omni_bb - a linux shell bulletin board).

There's also this:

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/wetlands/hurricane_print.html

Do you expect this kind of hurricane—this kind of flooding—will hit New Orleans in our lifetime?

"Well I would say the probability is yes," says Suyahada. "In terms of past experience, we've had three storms that were near misses—that could have done at least something close to this."

Basically, the part of New Orleans that most Americans—most people around the world—think is New Orleans, would disappear.

Suyhayda agrees, "It would, that's right."