Long-term Responses

• What did the US government do?

  Provided 16 billion dollars for the rebuilding of homes, and funds to repair other essential infrastructure
• What did the US Army recommend?

  That houses be built on stilts or not rebuilt at all in low-lying areas
• What did they do about flood defenses?

  Repaired and improved flood defenses over New Orleans costing 14.5 billion dollars in 2013
• What did they do to all the floodwater?


  Pumped it into the Lake Pontchartrain (took over a month)