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Thursday, September 01, 2005
Fool me twice, ah, shame, um, don't get fooled again
Natural disasters:
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." - George W. Bush
NEW ORLEANS - The worst-case scenario for New Orleans — a direct strike by a full-strength Hurricane Ivan — could submerge much of this historic city treetop-deep in a stew of sewage, industrial chemicals and fire ants, and the inundation could last for weeks, experts say. If the storm were strong enough, Ivan could drive water over the tops of the levees that protect the city from the Mississippi River and vast Lake Pontchartrain. And with the city sitting in a saucer-shaped depression that dips as much as 9 feet below sea level, there would be nowhere for all that water to drain. - 9-14-04
The big fear is flooding from the storm surge, the swelling tides pushed ahead of a hurricane as it moves across the water. Computer models at the hurricane center in Miami suggested that Katrina could arrive in New Orleans with a 28-foot surge. The levees and sea walls protecting the city are designed to protect against surges of 18-20 feet.-USA Today 8-28-05
New Orleans is sinking. And its main buffer from a hurricane, the protective Mississippi River delta, is quickly eroding away, leaving the historic city perilously close to disaster. So vulnerable, in fact, that earlier this year the Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked the potential damage to New Orleans as among the three likeliest, most castastrophic disasters facing this country. Houston Chronicle, Dec 2001And man-made ones:
"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, ... that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile," national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Thursday. (May 2002)
"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House," the September 1999 report said.At what point do we decide that these people are either liars or incompetent? Or maybe both.
