Gustav!

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Foxfyre wrote:
Katrina was absolutely unprecedented in modern times and nobody anticipated the devastation it wrecked and no administration would have been fully prepared for that.

This is just so much nonsense. New Orleans was a ticking time bomb, is a ticking time bomb and still hasn't suffered the magnitude of death and destruction that's been imminently predictable for the better part of forever. The area of the Earth we call New Orleans has been periodically suffering much stronger storms than Katrina since before there were people. This isn't going to stop just because we want to live there now. Study after study demonstrated that New Orleans was a ticking time bomb and the only thing sillier than pretending "nobody anticipated the devastation" is pretending the Federal Government could (or should try) to make the city Hurricane proof. It's not going to happen. Sooner or later, however, a direct hit from a CAT-5 will.

But I await the verdict on the fragile regions on the Gulf Coast, as Bill & Osso have mentioned.

It is wonderful news that NO seems to have dodged the bullet of Gustav.
But I await the verdict on the fragile regions on the Gulf Coast, as Bill & Osso have mentioned.
I tried to make notes from a story on NPR this afternoon, but it got too complicated. The telling points were the Delta is losing a football sized piece of wetlands every 40 minutes and that is not good, not good at all.
If one of yall can do this, I would appreciate it: npr.org and then All things Considered for 9/1, and then Environment and then Audio of that story.

o'bill wrote :

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Foxfyre wrote:
Katrina was absolutely unprecedented in modern times and nobody anticipated the devastation it wrecked and no administration would have been fully prepared for that.

This is just so much nonsense. New Orleans was a ticking time bomb, is a ticking time bomb and still hasn't suffered the magnitude of death and destruction that's been imminently predictable for the better part of forever. The area of the Earth we call New Orleans has been periodically suffering much stronger storms than Katrina since before there were people. This isn't going to stop just because we want to live there now. Study after study demonstrated that New Orleans was a ticking time bomb and the only thing sillier than pretending "nobody anticipated the devastation" is pretending the Federal Government could (or should try) to make the city Hurricane proof. It's not going to happen. Sooner or later, however, a direct hit from a CAT-5 will.

o'bill :
i don't know if you ever watched the PBS documentary : THE DISAPPEARING DELTA : LOSING GROUND .

we watched it a year or two ago . a well made documentary imo .
it should really be shown again - but by ALL tv-networks and not just PBS .
hbg

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http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/archives/losingground.html