I guess I'm having trouble understanding that. Most of the flooding we've seen in New Orleans proper has been not even to the first floor of houses, and it's come up (fairly) slowly--slow enough for people to make it to roofs and upper floors, even to shelters like the Superdome by the thousands. We're not talking a thirty-foot water hammer like what scoured Mississippi and St. Bernard and Plaquamines clean. How would hundreds, maybe thousands, die in New Orleans? Is Nagin prone to being melodramatic or is he serious here?
This is incomprehensible. A disaster that's just too big to get one's head around.
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I'm kinda wondering why no one is pushing all the lost boats out................................ it seems that oodles of boats got washed ashore
disease, violence and exposure (aka heat exhaustion, sunstroke, etc.)