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"Jebabical" <jb@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> David Morgan (MAMS) wrote:
>> This is a bad scene that had been fully "war-gamed"
>> by FEMA less than two years ago... there is no excuse
>> for this foot- dragging to have occurred except at the
>> highest levels of government.
>> It was a broiling August afternoon in New Orleans,
>> Louisiana, the Big Easy, the City That Care Forgot.
>> Those who ventured outside moved as if they were
>> swimming in tupelo honey. Those inside paid silent
>> homage to the man who invented air-conditioning as they
>> watched TV "storm teams" warn of a hurricane in the Gulf
>> of Mexico. Nothing surprising there: Hurricanes in
>> August are as much a part of life in this town as
>> hangovers on Ash Wednesday.
....and the president of the United States was begging the
New Orlean's Mayor to evacuate his city. The Mayor refused
again and again, but under continuing presidental pressure,
he finally relented at the last minute.
>> But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a
>> bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached
>> the coast, more than a million people evacuated to
>> higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however—the
>> car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those
>> die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw
>> a party.
This prediction was off by 100,000.
>> The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear
>> warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake
>> Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive
>> berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over.
>> Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea
>> level—more than eight feet below in places—so the water
>> poured in. A liquid brown wall washed over the brick
>> ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of
>> the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the
>> Garden District, until it raced through the bars and
>> strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of
>> the Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet (eight meters)
>> over parts of the city, people climbed onto roofs to
>> escape it.
>> Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon
>> contaminated by sewage and industrial waste.
No reality check on this estimate, yet.
>> Thousands
>> more who survived the flood later perished from
>> dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It
>> took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the
>> Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment,
>> a million people were homeless,
A million homeless in a city with a population of 500,000?
Neat trick, if you can get anybody with a brain to believe
it.
>> and 50,000 were dead. It
>> was the worst natural disaster in the history of the
>> United States.
It's no doubt the worst natural disaster in the history of
the United States.
>> When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the
>> doomsday scenario is not far-fetched.
It's off by 100% in several places that we know about for
sure.
The rest of it? Well, lets hope not.
> http
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