To: sefarkas
Actually, that's not all true. Hurricanes do tend to decrease in strength somewhat before they hit land but not always. Hurricane Andrew which hit Florida as a Cat 5 had stregthened rapidly in the hours prior to landfall. Also Hurricane Camille with an amazing 190 mile/hr winds (an extremely strong Cat 5) hit Mississippi in the 60's.
27 posted on
09/29/2005 9:32:21 PM PDT by
ndkos
To: ndkos
Your points are accurate but not completely relevant to the folks who live in New Orleans. South Florida is fully exposed to the ocean as are the folks on the Mississippi Coast. New Orleans is tucked in and not as vulnerable as those two communities.
I simply want folks to see that the flood wall failure (not earthen levees) were on account of a construction problem and not directly related to the storm as stated in the investigations noted at the beginning of this thread. Cat 3 is the realistic worst case storm for the levee system around New Orleans. I am sad for the other communities. However, the Corps manager and his contractors that signed off on those 17th St Canal flood walls ought to end up in jail. Furthermore, it would not have been such a disaster if folks were at home to protect their property rather than listen to the corrupt politicians on top of the city and state government. Everyone in LA knows how crooked these folks are. That's how they get elected. But, being mayor or governor does not give that person any credibility when it comes to issues like evacuation etc. Some of my small-government allies on FR seem to believe that getting elected raises your IQ by some significant fraction. Politicians in Louisiana are for entertainment purposes only; no one can take them seriously when it comes to life and property.
29 posted on
09/29/2005 9:46:32 PM PDT by
sefarkas
(why vote Democrat-lite???)
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