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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN class=412444514-08092005>Yolanda
(remember her?) sent me this interesting link. It was written last
October. Here's an excerpt.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN class=412444514-08092005><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> <BR>The storm hit Breton Sound with
the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake
Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back
the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea
level-more than eight feet below in places-so the water poured in. A liquid
brown wall washed over the brick ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard
houses of the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the Garden
District.... As it reached 25 feet (eight meters) over parts of the city, people
climbed onto roofs to escape it. <BR> <BR>Thousands drowned in the murky
brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more
who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they
waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the
Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were
homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history
of the United States. <BR> <BR>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.<BR> <BR>"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," <BR></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN class=412444514-08092005><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> "It's not if it will happen," says
University of New Orleans geologist Shea Penland. "It's when."
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> yolanda cruz<SPAN
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2><SPAN class=412444514-08092005> </SPAN><B>Sent:</B> Thursday,
September 08, 2005 6:53 AM<BR><B>Subject:</B> New Orleans
prediction<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV>This article was posted in the national geographic one year ago and it
predicted this Hurricane. I thought you might find it interesting!</DIV>
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color=#0000ff> < </FONT></SPAN>http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/index.html?fs=www7.nationalgeographic.com<SPAN
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