09-03-2005, 09:57 AM
DeeBye,Sep 2 2005, 07:48 PM Wrote:That's the real tragedy of this whole thing. They KNEW that they were unprepared for a large hurricane, yet did nothing about it. They've known since Camille that a Category 4 or larger hurricane would wipe them out. What have they done since then? They didn't even have any sort of effective evacuation plan. It was going to happen sooner or later, yet noone did a damned thing about it.
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Yes protecting you against disasters like this (sometimes impossible) takes a lot of money. Yesterday someone on television said that once every 10,000 years there might be a condition in which the delta-works cannot cope with the water anymore. The New Orleans system had a 30 !? year period, in which something like this could happen.