[GCFL-discuss] FW: New Orleans prediction

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

Yolanda (remember her?) sent me this interesting link.  It was written last
October.  Here's an excerpt.
 
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. 
 
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. 
 
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.
 
"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," 

 "It's not if it will happen," says University of New Orleans geologist Shea
Penland. "It's when." 

 
greenBubble 

-----Original Message-----
From: yolanda cruz 
 Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 6:53 AM
Subject: New Orleans prediction


This article was posted in the national geographic one year ago and it
predicted this Hurricane.  I thought you might find it interesting!
 
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http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/index.html?fs=www7.nati
onalgeographic.com > 



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