Reply #73: NOLA is one of the worlds' most important ports. [View All]

[CottonBear]

The US can't survive without it. Our grain and other products are transported downriver and 25% of our oil and gas come into the port not to mention vast quantities of goods from other countries. NOLA and the surrounding parishes are the sites of hugely important shipping ports, ship building yards, US Naval stations and docks, chemical manufacturers and other industries and government installations like the Stennis Space Flight Center where rockets are built.

You obviously do not realize the importance of NOLA and the Gulf Coast to the USA and the rest of North America. The gulf coast has no beachges. It is populated by working people and industries ranging from energy to manufacturing to the fishing/crabbing/shrimping industry.

I know this because my family lived there, my husband is from NOLA and his family survived the hurricane and are still there.