Well guess what? THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY KNEW WHAT A CAT 3 WOULD DO TO NEW ORLEANS. 48 hours is one hell of a long time for advanced warning. 24 hours before it hit, people were gathering in the Superdome and the Convention Center. They could have been moved a looooonnnnngggg way out of the path in 24 hours. There is no excuse for leaving these people there to die.
On 07 September 1965, Hurricane Betsy began to move due west and crossed extreme south Florida and the Florida Keys as a Category 3 hurricane. Betsy then accelerated to the northwest and moved into Barataria Bay on the evening of the 9th. This placed New Orleans on the worst side of the storm and sending the storm surge up the Mississippi River and into Lake Pontchartrain. A storm surge of 10 feet caused New Orleans to suffer its worst flooding since the hurricane of 1947 and proved inadequacies in the levee protection system surrounding the area. The resulting levee improvements spared the city from similar flooding in 1968 plus 1 when Hurricane Camille impacted the area. Betsy claimed 81 lives and was the first United States hurricane to produce over $1 billion damage, thus becoming known as Billion Dollar Betsy.
New Orleans is a disaster waiting to happen, with the Gulf of Mexico, a large lake close by, and a river running through town. This type of construction has spread from Maine to Texas as we convince each other that we must live closer to the ocean. Eventually a mature hurricane will strike, and the storm surge will inundate everything in its path.
The hurricane moves ashore. In the above example, a 15-foot surge added to the normal 2-foot tide creates a storm tide of 17 feet. This mound of water, topped by battering waves, moves ashore along an area of the coastline as much as 100 miles wide. The combination of the storm surge, battering waves, and high winds is deadly.
The storm surge claims nine out of every ten hurricane victims. This great dome of water sweeps across the coastline as the storm makes landfall. Spectators, who should not be out there, are caught by the surge as the giant wave carries away everything in its path.
The government didn't even make the ATTEMPT. The lousy government didn't even make the OFFER to evacuate the people who had no means to leave. How many of the thousands would have accepted the offer to leave if our rotten government had at least made the effort? If the government had at least made the OFFER it might be a little easier to write off the ones who still insisted on staying. But for our government to not even make an effort to evacuate them is obscene.
Katrina has illustrated beyond any shadow of doubt that the United States does not have a legitimate government any longer. The crooks abscond with billions upon billions of our tax dollars to feather their nests and hand over to their cronies. There is not a penny of our tax dollars that has not been wasted to fund corrupt government.
5,000 Wait On Overpbutt 2384YES, the federal government is culpable. When the federal government realized the city and state officials were not...
