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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I used to live in New Orleans, everyone knew
how precarious that soup bowl was. So did I hear of any plans other than
to run like crazy & get out. Nooooo it was party, party.
Thousands were spent every year by each group to see who could make the biggest
& best Mardi Gras float for the next parade. I think that money
could have been put to some better use, perhaps protecting the city?
There were parades in the city (which I would not attend since they were so
offensive, and there were parades in the suburbs, which you could take your
children to. The woman who sat at the pool to watch their kids,
would be drinking by 10:00 AM. And it wasn't ice tea.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But I sure enjoyed some great food. Also
learned to cook some of the dishes. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I enjoyed the jazz & the street musicians and
artists. It was the closest thing to leaving the country without leaving
the country. When I stuck my For Sale sign in the
ground,</FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=2>since we were moving on ...the sign
fell over because the ground was so soggy. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Poor New Orleans, it's very sad.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carla from Georgia</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:09
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [GCFL-discuss] FW: New
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<DIV>Oh my gosh... that's SCARY!!!!!!!</DIV>
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<DIV>Lance<BR>John 8:32 "You will know the Truth and the Truth will set you
free."<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:11:56 -0400 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <<A href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</A>>
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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><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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