Subj : Re: Um...no comment? To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 02:13:19 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Nick wrote in news:Xns96C4C8D09B03Endtcm@ 68.1.17.6: > weirdwolf wrote: > >> "RR" wrote in >> news:zFMRe.12755$Nx.1336 @tornado.texas.rr.com: >> >>> Jim Larson wrote: >>> >>>>> In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was >>>>> one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush >>>>> administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 >>>>> percent to pay for the Iraq war. >>>>> >>>>> A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study >>>>> how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic >>>>> hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the >>>>> research not be undertaken. >>>>> >>>>> After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the >>>>> Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the >>>>> Corps of Engineers strengthened and renovated levees and >>>>> pumping stations. In early 2001, the Federal Emergency >>>>> Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane >>>>> striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters >>>>> in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But >>>>> by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project >>>>> essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In >>>>> 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New >>>>> Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for >>>>> holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 >>>>> percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a >>>>> total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced >>>>> the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring >>>>> freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New >>>>> Orleans' levees, but it was too late. >>>>> >>>>> The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which before the hurricane >>>>> published a series on the federal funding problem, and whose >>>>> presses are now underwater, reported online: "No one can say >>>>> they didn't see it coming ... Now in the wake of one of the >>>>> worst storms ever, serious questions are being asked about the >>>>> lack of preparation." >>>>> >>>>> By Sidney Blumenthal >>>>> Salon.com Wednesday 31 August 2005 >>>>> >>>> >>>> (You're trying to make Iwa explode, right?) >>> >>> (The "Larry King" thread was becoming bloated and difficult to >>> wade through.) >>> >> >> Much like the programme itself? >> So do you think this will stop the distruction of the wetlands >> and the >> tightening up of building regulations for those nice seafront >> properties or will it go back to being focussed on man made levees >> etc? >> Ted > > Oh, I forgot to mention. Nice seafront properties don't occur in > Louisiana. > I wasn't just talking about the condo types you get in Florida, more the building right up as close as they will go. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .