Civil Engineers Magazine predicted it before National Geographic in 2003.
On basis of:
1)Sea level rising.
2)Global Warming.
3) Lack of upgrade to old levvis that could only withstand hurricanes and floods of 60's ; The design of the original levees, which dates to the 1960s, was based on rudimentary storm modeling that, it is now realized, might underestimate the threat of a potential hurricane. Even if the modeling was adequate, however, the levees were designed to withstand only forces associated with a fast-moving hurricane that, according to the National Weather Service’s Saffir-Simpson scale, would be placed in category 3. If a lingering category 3 storm—or a stronger storm, say, category 4 or 5—were to hit the city, much of New Orleans could find itself under more than 20 ft (6 m) of water.
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Wow, so people ACTAULLY take CNN seriously? I don't mean to offend anybody *snicker* but I thought it was clearly obvious that most of CNN (including Weather reports on occassions) Was just a flamming Pile of cr@p.
Now back to the topic of how it cost 14 billion some To have prevented this... to some extent, and how Iraq costs 6 million a week.
No this time CNN actually underestimated the storm this time. On last Monday they said most places went out okay. Then on Tuesday they said epic disaster.
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What!?! Are you saying that some people actually considered that a city in the middle of the hurricane alley known as the Gulf Of Mexico was susceptible to severe storms!?!? Wow, that's genius...
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Nothing of him that doth fade
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