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[RC] New Orleans - OT - Michael Maul

"Hindsight is always 20/20 or in this case it's 10/10. NO ONE...not even the President of the United States foresaw the devastation of this storm."

Here's an interesting article from National Geographic on New Orleans
that describes what was going to happen before it happened.  City,
state, and national knew what was going to happen.

http://205.188.130.53/ngm/0410/feature5/

Mike

From the article

"When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the doomsday scenario
is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a
hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the
nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist
attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane
shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great.

"The killer for Louisiana is a Category Three storm at 72 hours before
landfall that becomes a Category Four at 48 hours and a Category Five at
24 hours—coming from the worst direction," says Joe Suhayda, a retired
coastal engineer at Louisiana State University who has spent 30 years
studying the coast. Suhayda is sitting in a lakefront restaurant on an
actual August afternoon sipping lemonade and talking about the chinks in
the city's hurricane armor. "I don't think people realize how precarious
we are," Suhayda says, watching sailboats glide by. "Our technology is great when it works. But when it fails, it's going to make things much worse."


The chances of such a storm hitting New Orleans in any given year are
slight, but the danger is growing. Climatologists predict that powerful
storms may occur more frequently this century, while rising sea level
from global warming is putting low-lying coasts at greater risk. "It's
not if it will happen," says University of New Orleans geologist Shea
Penland. "It's when." "


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