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National Geographic's Prescient Story About This Katrina Disaster

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:47 am
by Tombstone
Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.

When did this calamity happen? It hasn't”yet. Read more:

http://205.188.130.53/ngm/0410/feature5/

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National Geographic's Prescient Story About This Katrina Disaster

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:54 am
by lady cop
as spooky as the article seems, it really made sense in scientific fact. doomsday scenarios may well be created from what is known about topography. i think i could predict the demise of the overbuilding of the florida keys by a cat 5, and have had it on my mind for years. but in the case of the keys i am not sure it would be a bad thing to start over in the natural sense.

National Geographic's Prescient Story About This Katrina Disaster

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:08 am
by telaquapacky
I remember that article. It only points up how it take a real catastrophe to get anything done- which is tragically stupid because prevention is always infinitely less expensive than cure, and cures are always band-aid.