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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?cha...5883414B7F0000
That article is from October 2001, almost 5 years ago.
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Really, did anyone need to read an article to figure out how ed NO would be if they were to get hit hard?
Nice find though.
great find.
I just think people should listen to scientists a bit more. But as the article points out, you have so many conflicting interests it becomes hard to get anything done.
I wonder how bloody of a night we're going to see under martial law. At first I thought it would bring some good, but then again how many packs of bandits are going to be out without even ambient lighting?
I'm sure someone will try and stir up some , somewhere. Then again, how many people are going to be stupid enough to try and bow up on the National Guard?
One other thing that really bothered me from today. I'm trying very hard to stay apolitical with this whole situation, but why the wasn't that hospital ship sailing out on Monday when people started realizing how serious this was going to be? Because the President didn't think the situation demanded it? Why so late?
Same goes for the search helicopters and the Navy supply vessels. Did someone witha fancy nameplate on their DC office door think the Coast Guard could handle this entire ing mess?
Side Notes: I know people bash Shaq but he's in Baton Rogue helping with the relief efforts first-hand and he's staying there thoroughout the week.
Also the Yankees gave a $1M to Red Cross.
That's awesome. As much as I hate Shaq's media antics, he's always very generous when it comes to people in need, like the Christmas thing he does every year for the kids in L.A., and now this...he's got a good heart.
BTW, it looks like the first of the busses have made it to the Astrodome and went in.
takes time to do stuff like that maybe???that hospital ship sailing out on Monday
Refuegees are arriving in Houston at the dome.
Well, the Comfort sat sail on 9-12 for NYC (link). I probably should have mentioned that. I guess nitpicking about three days is meaningless for some people, but right now, when it seems that every hour is crucial in saving lives, it'd be nice to know that she was rounding Florida tonight.
All I want to know is WTF is up with the Red Cross? They have been MIA in N'awlins for two days now. I bet those people that had to sleep on I-10 last night would welcome something as trivial as a bottle of water.
That Sheehan blamed the hurricane on Bush, saying his global warming policies and "killing policies" are to blame.
What a ing idiot.
All I want to know is WTF is up with the Red Cross? They have been MIA in N'awlins for two days now. I bet those people that had to sleep on I-10 last night would welcome something as trivial as a bottle of water.
What a ing idiot.
Aren't the Red Cross volunteers dealing with people that fled the area rather than those still in the ? I'll have to look it up.
Same with the Sheehan comment. I think her five minutes ended on Saturday.
The sad thing is somewhere her son is rolling in his grave.
More news from LA...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- It's an engineering problem that hasn't been solved: How do you plug a broken floodwall and drain a city that is submerged in water in many areas? Officials acknowledge plans to "unwater New Orleans" have failed, have been redrawn and are continuing to evolve.
The first was to use helicopters to drop hefty sandbags and giant concrete barriers to plug the hole in the floodwall of a canal which usually drains water from New Orleans and Jefferson Parish.
Crews had already moved in the 250 concrete walls and hundreds of sandbags when the problems cropped up. Transportation and engineering officials questioned whether the original structure was sound enough to hold against the pressure from the water.
So, they tweaked the plans and were working to hire a contractor to drive steel, sheet metal pilings down across the canal to stop water in the lake from moving into the canal before it ever got to the floodwall.
That still was difficult. The pilings need to go down beyond 30 feet to fully block the flow of water, according to Michael B. Rogers, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
In the meantime, the corps was planning to punch deliberate breaches into the levee system along Lake Pontchartrain, moving from east to west, cutting notches that would let the water flow back out of New Orleans and into the lake, Rogers said. "People are in the air right now locating the best places to do that," Rogers said Wednesday.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- More than 7,600 prisoners had to be moved from jails in the New Orleans area because of flooding and unsanitary conditions caused by Hurricane Katrina -- prompting such widespread rumors of riots and jail breaks that Corrections Secretary Richard Stalder focused Wednesday on setting the story straight during a briefing with reporters.
"We cannot find any credible intelligence that the kinds of things that had been reported have happened," he said.
They're moving the women to Angola, too.
http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=3791807
We talked about this earlier, but wouldn't you rather have prisoners spending the night on I-10 than refugees?
Before and after pics from space...
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ns-imagery.htm
HOLY ...
The WWL blog is mentioning a "renegade bus", a yellow Orleans Parish school jobber pulling up to the Astrodome. Who the cares if they're not an officially sanctioned refugee caravan vehicle? We should be happy that whoever's in it was resourceful enough to make it to Houston.
Go take a shower and get some grub, guys.
http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stor....13bc8d1d.html
Late Wednesday, Tenet Healthcare Corp. asked Louisiana State Police and the U.S. Coast Guard to help evacuate one of its hospitals in Gretna after a supply truck carrying food, water, medical supplies and pharmaceuticals was held up by gunmen.
Escape from New Orleans.
What's left?
Everything you see underwater now will have to be demolished.
So basically 80% of the city is gone.
"Looters" is a euphemism for "heavily armed roving murderous savages." The people taking food and diapers out of Wal-Mart aren't the problem. The people breaking into homes, hospitals, etc. and shooting people to get whatever they have are the problem.
WOW! ford is really stepping up to the plate on this one!
Ford Motor Credit Company is offering customers affected by Hurricane Katrina the opportunity to defer up to two vehicle payments.
I agree.,
If my car was washed away I'd personally defer all my future payments! Ford would pick up on that eventually...
Hopefully the car insurance you're supposed to be paying for would pick up the tab.I agree.,
If my car was washed away I'd personally defer all my future payments! Ford would pick up on that eventually...
That's why that offer was pretty re ed. Pretty much any finance company would do that for any financial hardship you might have, so the ones that were able to get out with their cars still intact would have had that option anyway....because they aren't doing you a favor. They slap those payments to the end of the loan and you end up having to pay more interest for it.
Those that were completely destroyed...hopefully they weren't among the frightening number of uninsured motorists.
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