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You have confused what you were told with the "facts".

You said. "And as to "The hurricane decreased in power quite quickly, from a type 5 to a type one in a few hours. That's why the rest of the eastern US wasn't damaged too much."

1 Thats the way all huricanes work when they hit land - so of course that limits the damage - you present this a special fact its not.

I did not present this is a special fact, I gave this as the reason why there is no damage where minionman lives. Maybe I did not understand his "joke question", if that is the fact, sorry for trying to answer the question, I will never do it again.

2 This Hurricane didnt directly hit New Orleans. The bad flooding occurred after the hurricane when the levy broke(which was due to the hurricane). The bad flooding is the issue I addressed.

That is all very well, but as I said, I replied on minionmans post, not on yours.

3 Actually Mississippi where the center of the Hurricane hit DID sustain utterly massive damage. Direct damage from the wind is unavoidable in any coasta area - not i also did not address this. However the after math is not such a continous disaster
You jumped in a converstation where you did not know the facts and showed your ignoreece.

Yes I know Mississippi was hit hard as well. We also have television and journalists. And I don't see a reason why somebody from Oregon should know more about these things than somebody from Holland. And I still did not tell anythings that were not true. As I said I might have been fooled by Minionmans trick question, but that might be more a case of not understanding such things in another language than my own. (sarcasm, irony). So I find you stating that "I show my ignorance (if you mean that word) a tad overdone. Here you are already using three posts to convince me of something...but I still don't know what it is that you try to convince me off. Is it that I think I'm ignorant? If so why don't you PM that to me. :D

It may be reasonable to build below sea level in an area that doesnt have massive storms. That does not mean it is an area like the south eastern US coast. Storms are a fact of life there and are a principal element themselves.
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No really is that so? Are you now also suggesting that I have been living under a rock for the past 20 years? Or that the media in holland are not good?

I will explain again. Disaster can happen everywhere, even floods. We had one big one in 1953, after that we took measures, invested loads of money, and up till now it works....but who knows what might happen. New Orleans apparantly is on such a nice location that people want to live there, and are living there allready for a few 100 years. But certain extreme things might always happen. So do you now want to blame all those millions of government officials and inhabitants who over the years lived in New Orleans and build up the city, that it is their fault that they did that or something?

But as I said before this is all a question of risk calculation. Millions of people are living in California in areas of which everybody says that any moment a super earthquacke can occur, but it has anyway so many advantages to live there that people take the risk. That how it was always going and that is how it will always be going.


Back to the subject: to occhi.

The images I see here on teh news are terrible. Especially in New Orleans, people don't seem to be getting a long all the time. I hope they will get them out there a.s.a.p. Also broken sewer systems and high temperature might make the situation even worse.