Subj : Re: Um...no comment? To : alt.tv.farscape From : Nick Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 02:25:19 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > 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 > Here is a link to some info about south Louisiana and coastal erosion here. http://www.leeric.lsu.edu/educat/lessons/erosion/coast_e1.htm .