[GCFL-discuss] FW: New Orleans prediction

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Oh my gosh... that's SCARY!!!!!!!

Lance
John 8:32 "You will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free."


On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:11:56 -0400 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> writes:
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.n
ationalgeographic.com > 



Yolanda Cruz
Artist for the State
http://home.insightbb.com/~yolanda.cruz 

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