New Orleans the New Venice?

I had this idea yesterday, that since New Orleans is doomed to flooding, and rebuilding to the exact way it was will just be consistantly costly, why not make it a water city like Venice, Italy? It could be a huge tourist attraction, and let's face it, how much of a tourist attraction is the city right now? With dead bodies and contaminated water?

Turn New Orleans into Venice.

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  1. GeoffOctober 12, 2005 at 4:45 PM

    Yeah! What a great idea...we could make heaps of water rides....an adventure theme park like "alligator world". Hold marathon swimming championships down main street....Film episodes of "Survivor - Modern Water Torture"

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