In Post-Quake San Francisco, Lessons for New Orleans After the Flood - New York Times

In Post-Quake San Francisco, Lessons for New Orleans After the Flood - New York Times: "'Maybe New Orleans will astound everyone, but I wouldn't be honest if I said the prospects were overwhelmingly good for New Orleans coming back anything like its old self,' said Joel Kotkin, a scholar with the New America Foundation"

There's definitely parallels between the tragedies that befell both port cities, nearly a hundred years apart. Hopefully it won't take decades for NOLA to recover, as it did for San Francisco. Nothing is ever the same; but the possibility exists that things could actually be better in the aftermath, with careful planning.