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Notes
1 See http://www.newvisioninstitute.org/movingOpportunity.html[accessed January 6, 2008].
2 The reason is topographic: Because New Orleans is a bowl surrounded by water on three sides, the storm surge and levee failure left parts of the city deeply submerged in contaminated water for days or even weeks. This left damage, as well as environmental threats to re-occupation, that far exceeded the damage and re-occupation risk left by other storms, even stronger ones such as Hurricane Andrew, that hit cities without that extra-vulnerable topography.