Re: Why is the National Guard Not in New Orleans Right Now?


"Chas" <chasclements@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We're talking an area the size of England just for starters, bud.

Chas NO city is NOT the size of England. The area affected by the storm may
be but the city isn't.

> NO is in a huge flood plain that extends a thousand miles North; it sits
> on lowland that goes for five hundred miles and more. It's in the path of
> some of the most destructive weather on Earth coming from both sides.

Shitty place to build a city. But the city isn't a thousand miles wide.

> Holland is nothing like that. For the money that's been spent on the
> flood-plain and the sea levees, you could put a perspex dome over Holland
> and have money left over for dancing girls.

They just needed to protect the major centre. Who gives a *** if some
farms get washed away.

> At that, NO was defended against storms up to a Category 3, and
> thousand-year flood levels.

When they regularly have over Category 3 storms. Stupid if you ask me.

Fraser


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