True. The biggest problem on the socio-economic side I remember was the refusal of our beloved C Ray to call an evacuation until about 24 hours before landfall. The standard was 72 hours, so why the wait?
He also refused to place the public transporation busses in a location safe from flooding (inside the Superdome or on higher ground) or use them to evacuate those that needed transportation. Now the levees are another story completely. The Army Corpse of Engineers failed miserably for 40 years to adequately design a levee protection system for a 100 year event, let alone a Cat 3 storm with a Cat 5 storm surge. But the main contributor to the entire disaster was the loss of wetlands over the past 40 years around New Orleans. This was caused solely by the increased demand for oil and gas in this country. I will not blame the oil companies because they were only responding to damand. If that demand had not been there, the drilling would not hyave caused as much damage. Had the wetlands been up to par, the levees adequate for a 100 year event and the mayor competent none of the post Katrina problems would have happened. On 8/22/06, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It wasn't the hurricane that caused most of the issues. > > It was bad engineering, bad social support structures, and bad planning. > > They weathered the hurricane just fine. > > On 8/22/06, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We created Katrina? Wow, I want that tech! > > (knowing about and creating are different) > > > > > > > Like Katrina? > > > > > > On 8/22/06, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> It's much easier to prepare for a disaster that you created yourself > :) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213995 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
