Re: Morbid Katrina predicitons


"Robert Morein" <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Clyde Slick" <artsackman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> 10,000 dead
>> French Quarter gone
>> 500,000 homeless
>> Most of Greater New Orleans uninhabitable for at least 30 days
>> Unsecured industrial toxic waste gets spread through the muck
>> in several Gulf Coast cities.
>>
>> I hope I am not being too optimistic.
>>
>> any other guesses?
>>
> This is a question of "do we trust the experts", or do we trust common
> sense?
> Experts feel obliged to speak to the worst, because there is little risk
> in
> evacuation, but much in staying.
> "Common sense", or lack of it, is what causes people to rely on their
> previous experiences, rather than understanding.
>

This could be beyond previous experience.
I know that networks forecast doom and gloom and catastrophe
to enhance ratings, but this looks like really bad news.


> But experts are not always right. My hope is that, somehow, it will
> fizzle.
>
> The worst case prediction is that New Orleans will be destroyed as a city.
> Would it be wise to rebuild in the same location, with the same
> vulnerability?
>

> If I take the expert opinion literally, New Orleans will cease to be, and
> will not be restored.

I didn't get that from the reports.
One interesting perspective they talked about was that 'already' dead
bodies will become floaters.

A smaller city with a specific economic focus may be
> constructed on the natural levees, with additional landfill. A million
> Americans will be refugees. The New Orleans of legend and song will vanish
> tomorrow, forever.
>





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