New Orleans article

GrooveNougat · #1 11-10-2005, 06:34 PM

So I'm waiting to get my haircut today, flipping through an old U.S. News and World Report from July, and came across this article about how vulnerable New Orleans was to a hurricane. Pretty good reading:

US News Article

GrooveNougat · #2 11-10-2005, 06:51 PM

Here are a couple quotes that I thought were crazy in hindsight:

"If a hurricane comes next month," says Ivor van Heerden, director of Louisiana State University's Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes, "New Orleans could no longer exist."

"If a Category 5 storm enters the Gulf, I don't think we'll have to encourage people to leave--it'll be an easy sell," says New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin. Category 3 or 4 storms, though, "are more dangerous . . . the community says, 'We might ride this out.'"

diebitter · #3 11-10-2005, 06:53 PM

Take it to politics. They'll love it.

GrooveNougat · #4 11-10-2005, 06:56 PM

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Leave it to a noob to post it in the wrong forum...I was considering adding a pic of a hot chick just so OOT would like it.

Thanks

diebitter · #5 11-10-2005, 06:58 PM

Post the hot chick. Better to seek forgiveness than permission.

GrooveNougat · #6 11-10-2005, 08:25 PM

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Am I forgiven now???