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2001 --FEMA calls a terrorist attack on New York, a hurricane hitting New Orleans and an earthquake on the San Andreas fault in California the “likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing this country,"
October 2001 --Scientific American: " Drowning New Orleans--
A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city"
2002 --"The New Orleans Times-Picayune ran a five-part series exploring the vulnerability of the city. The newspaper, and other news media as well, specifically addressed the possibility of massive floods drowning residents, destroying homes and releasing toxic chemicals throughout the city."--From CNN
2002 --LSU starts a program of intensive modelling and projecting the effects of hurricanes on New Orleans
Summer 2004--Flood mitigation funds requested from FEMA are rejected as 3 out of 4 FEMA dollars now go to terrorism-related projects
June 2004/Jun 2005--Army Corp of Engineers suffers record cutbacks, directly slashing levee improvement funds
July 2004--"More than 40 federal, state, local and volunteer organizations practiced this very scenario in a five-day simulation code-named "Hurricane Pam", where they had to deal with an imaginary storm that destroyed over half a million buildings in New Orleans and forced the evacuation of a million residents.
It predicted that 200,000 people or more would be unwilling or unable to heed evacuation orders and thousands would die, that people would be housed in the Superdome, that aid workers would find it difficult to gain access to the city as roads became impassable, as well as many other of the consequences that actually unfolded after Katrina hit this week."--From CNN
Oct 2004-- Article in National Geographic: "The Louisiana bayou, hardest working marsh in America, is in big trouble—with dire consequences for residents, the nearby city of New Orleans, and seafood lovers everywhere."
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No, there's no way the officials could know Katrina would play out like that.
Bullshit.
Shame on anyone who thinks that way too.
October 2001 --Scientific American: " Drowning New Orleans--
A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city"
2002 --"The New Orleans Times-Picayune ran a five-part series exploring the vulnerability of the city. The newspaper, and other news media as well, specifically addressed the possibility of massive floods drowning residents, destroying homes and releasing toxic chemicals throughout the city."--From CNN
2002 --LSU starts a program of intensive modelling and projecting the effects of hurricanes on New Orleans
Summer 2004--Flood mitigation funds requested from FEMA are rejected as 3 out of 4 FEMA dollars now go to terrorism-related projects
June 2004/Jun 2005--Army Corp of Engineers suffers record cutbacks, directly slashing levee improvement funds
July 2004--"More than 40 federal, state, local and volunteer organizations practiced this very scenario in a five-day simulation code-named "Hurricane Pam", where they had to deal with an imaginary storm that destroyed over half a million buildings in New Orleans and forced the evacuation of a million residents.
It predicted that 200,000 people or more would be unwilling or unable to heed evacuation orders and thousands would die, that people would be housed in the Superdome, that aid workers would find it difficult to gain access to the city as roads became impassable, as well as many other of the consequences that actually unfolded after Katrina hit this week."--From CNN
Oct 2004-- Article in National Geographic: "The Louisiana bayou, hardest working marsh in America, is in big trouble—with dire consequences for residents, the nearby city of New Orleans, and seafood lovers everywhere."
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No, there's no way the officials could know Katrina would play out like that.
Bullshit.
Shame on anyone who thinks that way too.
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