KATRINA....My DU in Review ..... 2 yrs. later.....

[jus_the_facts]

DU Lounge Poll: Where Will Katrina End Up?
Thu Aug-25-05 10:20 PM

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3919915




4 killed, 5 missing; power knocked out to 1.2 million as Katrina whacks S. Florida
Fri Aug-26-05 08:44 AM

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1729275



New Orleans, Louisiana....the week that was.....Sun Sep-04-05

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=155&topic_id=2340



Poll question: Who's feelin' free and safe from the terrorists in the good ol' USA today?Sat Sep-03-05

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3954289

...my cynicism knows no bounds...life is to blame...how nobel we animals who pretend we're some how evolved from perfection instead of the savage beasts we still are..herding people at gunpoint who're starving and dying in what's now third world conditions in the state of Louisiana...the ruination of New Orleans and instead of the richest bastards who helped create this crisis being treated in this manner..it's the poorest of the destitude that have to suffer the most...guess they should be used to it and not put up much of a fuss...i hate this world.



They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded...shoot to kill...
Friday, September 2, 2005

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4576651

[KamaAina]

1. "No one could have foreseen the failure of the levees"

um, NOT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_bulletin_for_New_Orleans#Bulletin_text

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WWUS74 KLIX 281550
NPWLIX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED...

.HURRICANE KATRINA...A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED
STRENGTH...RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969.

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT
LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL
FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE
BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME
WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A
FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH
AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY
VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE
ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE
WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN
AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING
INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY
THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW
CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE
KILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR
HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE
CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.

ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET...DO NOT VENTURE
OUTSIDE!

Well, at least he didn't venture outside...

[jus_the_facts]

2. Nahhh....nobody ever learns a damn thing from history either.....

:nopity:

The American Experience...Fatal Flood: A Story of Greed...Power and Race

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flood

TIME LINE

1726
Residents of New Orleans, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, build artificial levees ranging in height from 4 to 6 feet to protect their young city from the ravages of floods.

1812
Levee building remains in vogue along the Louisiana shores of the Mississippi. As settlers move into the territory north of New Orleans, levees are constructed. By 1812 levees have been built to safeguard 155 miles of land north of New Orleans on the east bank of the river and 180 miles north of the city on the west bank.

1814
As early as 1814 the debate over levee building begins, and proposals are made advocating alternatives to levees such as the creation of artificial outlets, called spillways, to drain floodwaters from the river


1926
April: The Army Corps of Engineers, having constructed levees stretching from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, publicly declares that the levee system along the Mississippi will prevent future floods.

Fall: Violent storms in the northern United States dump tons of water into tributaries throughout the continent that feed into the Mississippi.

1927
April 29: The torrent has moved south. With the river almost at the levee tops, New Orleans dynamites the Poydras levee, creating a 1500-foot break at an estimated cost of $2 million, to direct the flood waters away from the city and its half million inhabitants. Movie cameras are on hand to record the momentous scene. The New York Times reports that many people refuse to quit the area to be flooded by the levee break. One woman living in a lighthouse "says she won't quit her post unless Uncle Sam comes to take her away."

[jus_the_facts]

3. fixed link....New Orleans 911...the week that was.....Sept 4th 2005....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=155&topic_id=2340

[KamaAina]

4. For those of you in the city or region, an exhaustive list of anniversary events

from Neighborhoods Partnership Network, formerly Neighborhoods Planning Network.

http://www.npnnola.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/katrina-anniversary.pdf

I was going to cut and paste them, but it covers six pages. Suffice it to say that, if you are of a mind, you could spend all day (and night) tomorrow racing from one event to the next. Indeed, I hope some journalist does so, on the level of "A Day In the Life of New Orleans".

[uppityperson]

5. k&r

[jus_the_facts]

6. thanks...

...lest we forget.

[Swamp Rat]

7. k&r

[jus_the_facts]

8. Thank You....

:hug: :loveya: