Here's what NOAA thinks will be the situation at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans after a Category 4 storm.
You can watch the Quicktime movie of it here
Some of the models suggest far worse than that.
I have an ASTM meeting to go to in NO in December.... think they'd get cleaned up by then? Wow.... it may finally happen...
People won't all leave..i.e, the homeless sleeping in alleyways , because I read that the French Quarter will cease to exist.
I hate being an alarmist, but OTOH, we have to face the facts.
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