Reply #38: It is going to take a massive infusion of cash

[catmandu57]

to rebuild there. The same thing happened with the flood of 1993 here, Clinton's jobs program was dead in the water, then came the flood and the destruction.
The jobs program was reborn privately, the same will be true for the region there, the people will rebuild, there is nothing else for them to do.
It's not going to happen overnight, and it will require massive ammounts of government money to prime the pump, but once it gets going it will spark the economy there.

There is a wild card joker in the deck however, Global warming which I believe is responsible for the increasing magnitudes and number of these storms may play hell with our best intentions.

Hurricane season is a long long way from over, there are still three to five major storms expected this year, other parts of the country will be feeling this pain as well, and it could throw a huge wrench into everything.