Subj : Re: Um...no comment? To : alt.tv.farscape From : Nick Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 14:12:31 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Nick wrote: > 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 Actually, the main reason I used that link was because it was the only one that would come up at the time that showed actual numbers for the amount of erosion here. My home isp is having some major domain name problems and is only resolving about 10% of web addresses. I can't even get yahoo news stories. .