[meteorite-list] OT New Orleans Oct 2004

From: Dawn & Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Sep 6 17:32:21 2005
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WOW! too accurate! Jerry
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Subject: [meteorite-list] OT New Orleans Oct 2004


> For those of you still interested in the hurricane here are the first 4
paragraphs of an October 2004 National Geographic article
>
> < It was a broiling August afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Big
Easy, the City That Care Forgot. Those who ventured outside moved as if they
were swimming in tupelo honey. Those inside paid silent homage to the man
who invented air-conditioning as they watched TV "storm teams" warn of a
hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Nothing surprising there: Hurricanes in
August are as much a part of life in this town as hangovers on Ash
Wednesday.
>
> But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As
the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people
evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however-the car-less, the
homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look
for any excuse to throw a party.
>
> The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a
deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of
the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80
percent of New Orleans lies below sea level-more than eight feet below in
places-so the water poured in. A liquid brown wall washed over the brick
ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of the Ninth Ward, over
the white-columned porches of the Garden District, until it raced through
the bars and strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of the
Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet (eight meters) over parts of the city,
people climbed onto roofs to escape it.
>
> Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage
and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished
from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two
months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a
blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were
dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.
>
>
> Pretty accurate prediction. The rest of the story deals with wetlands and
here is a link if you are interested.
>
> <http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/>
>
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> Eric Olson
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