Subj : Re: Um...no comment? To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 03:48:01 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Nick wrote in news:Xns96C4CFBF81C62ndtcm@ 68.1.17.6: > 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 > Er Nick are you trying to tell me something? This is the kind of thing Jess would be doing at her junior school. I mean I know I'm thick and all but I think I can manage the work an 8 year old has to do. just. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .