Talk:Reconstruction of New Orleans

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[edit] Fact

I removed the "fact" template added by an anon. For the record, the French Quarter bars were Johnny White's and Molly's in the Market, the latter remaining usually open and the former allegedly always open throughout the storm and aftermath. news.google or google will show a number of referenes, and at least one book of first hand accounts published recently mentiones these as well. -- Infrogmation 19:33, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

That doesn't mean you don't need to cite sources. — jdorje (talk) 06:54, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Katrina

This and any other Katrina articles need to be added to Template:Katrina. — jdorje (talk) 06:54, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request clarification

In the section "Parts of town: differing circumstances" this phrase occurs: "built at a higher level from mid-20th century dredging." This is confusing; should it read "a higher level than", or does it mean that dredging was used to build up the land at that location?

The Lakefront neighborhoods were built on land that had been partially swamp and partially the shallows of Lake Pontchartrain; lake bottom mud was dredged in behind concrete floodwalls. The level of this land is at a higher elevation above sea level than the adjacent natural land just inland (or, indeed, any of the natural land between Gentilly & Metarie Ridges and the Lake). Hope this helps. -- Infrogmation 17:11, 3 April 2006 (UTC)