After all that seriousness, some comedy. I've just come across a wiki similar to the almighty wikipedia, but goes for satire and fiction instead of fact.

Here's their entry on New Orleans New Venice:

New Venice is a city located in the south of Louisiana. It was founded by some girl named Katrina on August 28th 2005. This city is quite beautiful, most of its buildings are built in water and the population moves around with boats and enjoy robbing stores and shooting at military helicopters.

New Venice is also famous for owning the worst-smelling stadium and convention center worldwide.

New Venice was formerly known as New Orleans, but Katrina decided that it was time to change the city´s name to a more suitable one.

I know it's pretty poor taste, but us British like to try to make light of a bad situation through comedy. We do it all the time.