Re: In memory of New Orleans


"Chad Irby" <cirby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:cirby-0A261D.19235602092005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <Xns96C59F5235F4Btaustinhyperbookscom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> No 33 Secretary <taustin+usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Chad Irby <cirby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> news:cirby-49C6F1.18034602092005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>
>> > Here's the scary part: This was not, by an order of magnitude, a
>> > worst-case disaster for New Orleans. Katrina actually *missed*. If
>> > the recently-upgraded levees hadn't failed (yes, the ones that broke
>> > were actually fairly new), people would be coming back in right now
>> > instead of trying to get out.
>>
>> Or if the levees had been designed for category 5 storms, instead of
>> category 3. (This was done many, many years ago, for all the usual bad
>> reasons such decisions are made.)
>
> Like New Orleans not wanting to spend a billion dollars or more on them
> to get only about an 80% survival chance...

A billion seems damned cheap, right about now.


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