[GCFL-discuss] Could Katrina have been aborted?

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

Siarlys
I was following a thread on a blog -- an argument regarding the religious
lessons to be learned from this disaster -- and they mentioned that the
levies that weren't upgraded did fine.  The levies that failed were fully
maintained and inspected -- ready and able to withstand anything a category
3 hurricane could throw at it.

But there is/was a tremendous amount of corruption down there.  It makes me
wonder if the levies failed BECAUSE they were maintained.

(Sorry, I don't have the link available.)


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Subject: [GCFL-discuss] Could Katrina have been aborted?


Provative headline, but for the most part I believe President Clinton is
correct. There are questions that need to be asked and answered; the time
to do that is NOT while lives are still being saved and bodies recovered.
(Suggestions that might save more lives NOW are always in order, but not
much else).

Still, before this gets buried, I found it VERY interesting that in 2000
Time magazine did a story on the Mississippi, and one little segment
quoted a number of people responsible for the water system around New
Orleans, who knew of many things that needed to be improved, before a
hypothetical Category 5 hurricane came along, because it might flood the
whole city. (They were having trouble getting the required $14 billion
budgetted). Now we are going to be paying at least $62 billion, thousands
are dead, and a whole city is homeless.

Siarlys
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