Subj : Re: Um...no comment? To : alt.tv.farscape From : Nick Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 13:30:09 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > 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 > hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe :D .