[Kevin]

There's a huge difference in building a coastal city below sea level and failing to properly manage a water supply in a naturally arid area. Flooding in New Orleans again is a certainty. I don't care how many billions of dollars are spent, it'll happen again. Thousands of lives will be lost. I'd venture to say this'll happen in the next 20 years.

As for another dust bowl? Perhaps a mini dust bowl limited to parts of Colorado and Kansas when the High Plains aquifer runs dry, but about the largest town affected there will be Liberal, KS.

Heritage and history are stupid reasons to ask people to live in such a dangerous place.