On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 02:06:54 -0400, "Chris" wrote:


"RJ" wrote in message
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On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:16:57 -0400, "Chris" wrote:


"Don Gabacho" wrote in message
egroups.com...
"I think no-one envisaged that it wold be this bad,..."

The "breaking of the levees and the tens of thousands of deaths" was
predicted precisely on NPR radio just days before Katerina made
landfall.

The prediction was NOT unique.

Bush, whose family owns a residence in the oil refining center of Belle
Chase immeadiately alongside the river and levees, chose, in lieu of
presiding over and mobilizing National Guard, all available
transportation outifts, Army Corps of Engineers, etc., he went to
Arizona to push "Social Security."


Um.... The democratic Governor is the one in charge of mobilizing the NG,
not the pres. That is sort of the reason for the NG.

Don't confuse him with facts.

RJ

Actually now that I read this again.

The NPR prediction is pretty impressive. How did they do it? Let me
see.....a cat 5 storm is about to hit a city that has levies designed for a
cat 3 storm. With such little information and only days before the storm
hit, how did NPR make the prediction?

Umm .... it's WHY the Corps of Engineers wanted the funding that
the shrubbie & republicans cut?
IIRC "60 Miuntes" or PBS had a program on it some years ago.
It was entirely predictable and anticipated .. they were just
lucky that the river is not at a flood stage and that the hurricane
dropped down to a catagory 4 before coming ashore.

BTW, Some areas outside New Orleans may well have more
deaths ....
--
Cliff