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To: dawn53; Dog Gone
The sustained flooding is going to be the worst problem if the worst case occurs in New Orleans. Inside "the bowl" the water could sit there for 10 weeks. The contamination from the chemical and petroleum plants would be horrific.

Has anyone mentioned the nutria?

760 posted on 08/27/2005 12:56:12 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: NautiNurse

I saw a special on some channel a couple months ago.

It described the damage and aftermath if anything above a cat 2 hit NO.

Said there'd be no way to get the water out of "the bowl" and the health hazards would be unbelievable, because once the water subsided the mold and toxic slush issues would make most of the submerged property unliveable.

Look at Port Charlotte and North Port. A year later and people are still living in FEMA trailers. And that was just a low population area and without the logistics of NO being below sea level.


765 posted on 08/27/2005 1:00:05 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: NautiNurse
Has anyone mentioned the nutria?

Recipes? But I don't think even the Cajuns will eat them.

767 posted on 08/27/2005 1:02:50 PM PDT by Lessismore
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