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Confederacy of Dunces USA

Welcome to the confederacy of dunces usa. This blog is inspired by the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast USA and named after the novel A Confederacy of Dunces by New Orleans native John Kennedy Toole. Certainly the disaster response efforts have been led by the dunces....

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Mosquito Paradise

I do truly appreciate the idea of some innovative community concepts being developed in New Orleans, but really, The bugs would eat your alive. It would be greate to return some areas to "nature" but this needs to be integrated into flood control plans for the area. Its not so easy to make an urban wasteland into a functional marshland, even if that is how it started out. From there and existing "urban assets" such as roads, and local interest from potential residents, we can hopefully carve out new communities. The lagoon suggestion is on the right track but needs a lot, lot more work.

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