[GCFL-discuss] FW: New Orleans prediction

Thu Sep 8 18:07:57 CDT 2005

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.   
But I sure enjoyed some great food.  Also learned to cook some of the dishes.  
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, since we were moving on ...the sign fell over because the ground was so soggy.  
Poor New Orleans, it's very sad.  
Carla from Georgia
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  From: Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List 
  To: cstolo at bellsouth.net 
  Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] FW: New Orleans prediction

  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!

     < http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/index.html?fs=www7.nationalgeographic.com > 

    Yolanda Cruz

    Artist for the State

    http://home.insightbb.com/~yolanda.cruz 

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