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What Now? The Lessons of Katrina. PM debunks the Katrina Myths
Popular Mechanics ^
| March 2006
| Camas Davis, Nicole Davis, Christian DeBenedetti, Brad Reagan, Kristin Roth
Posted on 03/11/2006 7:37:03 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez
NO ONE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SURPRISED. Not the federal agencies tasked with preparing for catastrophes. Not the local officials responsible for aging levees and vulnerable populations. Least of all the residents themselves, who had been warned for decades that they lived on vulnerable terrain. But when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, it seemed as though the whole country was caught unawares. Accusations began to fly even before floodwaters receded. But facts take longer to surface. In the months since the storm, many of the first impressions conveyed by the media have turned out to be mistaken. And many of the most important lessons of Katrina have yet to be absorbed. But one thing is certain: More hurricanes will come. To cope with them we need to understand what really happened during modern America's worst natural disaster. POPULAR MECHANICS editors and reporters spent more than four months interviewing officials, scientists, first responders and victims. Here is our report.--THE EDITORS
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: katrina
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To: Luis Gonzalez
I saw that article before. Great article. I still think Katrina was a Category 4, not 3 hurricane. Either way, it was really bad.
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posted on
03/11/2006 4:42:36 PM PST
by
Ptarmigan
(Proud bunny hater and killer)
To: Sally'sConcerns
TS Allison flooded the Medical Center in 2001. It also flooded in June of 1976 after 12 inches of rain fell in a few hours.
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posted on
03/11/2006 4:44:10 PM PST
by
Ptarmigan
(Proud bunny hater and killer)
To: blackie
MWLWN LABE!
This is a ch__ch. What's missing?
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posted on
03/11/2006 7:26:08 PM PST
by
rdb3
(What it is is what it was. (Snow Flake headed back to Ohio.))
To: Luis Gonzalez
There's a great deal of information here to digest, and I thank you for posting it. The first thing that sits wrongly with me is the notion that we could ever get the death count to zero. I don't think that idea is realistic, and saying it just seems like posturing. I also think that someone needs to say that people have to learn to do a better job preparing themselves. You can't expect to be safe when you spend your life living on government assistance, refusing to be an asset to any community, and refusing to prepare for events that you know will happen. Many of the people who had the worst problems lived this way. Their deaths are still tragedies, but part of the tragedy is that they lived their lives not realizing that one has to make an effort in life to reduce these kinds of dangers.
Bill
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posted on
03/11/2006 11:26:49 PM PST
by
WFTR
(Liberty isn't for cowards)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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posted on
03/12/2006 4:31:33 AM PST
by
Pusterfuss
(Proud member: Minnesotans for Global Warming)
To: ohioWfan
"Did you know that he got married last year?"Are you up on your grandmotherly skills?
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posted on
03/12/2006 6:21:32 AM PST
by
Luis Gonzalez
(Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
To: Luis Gonzalez
Ping for later reading. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
03/13/2006 11:43:19 AM PST
by
Iwo Jima
("An election is an advanced auction of stolen goods.")
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07/22/2006 5:50:25 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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