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Subject: [Leica] Katrina
From: rhaightjr at yahoo.com (Bob Haight)
Date: Thu Sep 1 08:55:31 2005

There is also the point of constructing a city below
sea level.

--- Jayanand Govindaraj <jgovindaraj@eth.net> wrote:

> What surprises me is that the Mumbai floods last
> month were handled with 
> a lot less chaos, and much more order (no looting,
> etc.) in essentially 
> a city 10-15 times the size of New Orleans, and with
> many slums of 
> extreme poverty, each the size of New Orleans. It is
> probably because 
> nobody expects anything from any level of
> government, so help each other 
> out. But, even with that, what surprised me even
> more was the fact that 
> the President of the USA was on a one month vacation
> when such an 
> eventuality was widely expected, and seems to have
> taken his own sweet 
> time getting back to work. Maybe centralized
> government has its uses, 
> especially when coordinating national disasters over
> a few federal 
> states and fiefdoms.....
> 
> It looks that one of the prime causes in both
> disasters was the 
> destruction of natural resources - the mangrove
> swamps in the case of 
> Bombay, and the wetlands in the case of New Orleans.
> 
> Jayanand Govindaraj
> Chennai, India
> 
> SonC@aol.com wrote:
> 
> >In a message dated 9/1/2005 6:34:42 A.M. Central 
> Daylight Time,  
> >wrs111445@yahoo.com writes:
> >
> >However,  it  could have been prevented IMHO.
> >
> >
> >"The cuts mean major hurricane  and flood
> protection projects will not be 
> >awarded to local engineering firms.  Also, a study
> to determine ways to protect 
> >the region from a Category 5  hurricane has been
> shelved for now." 
> >
> >http://tinyurl.com/bhkrf  
> >
> >
> >Regards, 
> >Sonny
> >http://www.sonc.com
> >Natchitoches,  Louisiana
> >Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane
> >?galit?, libert?,  crawfish  
> >
> >
> >
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In reply to: Message from jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Katrina)