-=- National Geographic Predicted Katrina! -=-

Link to October 2004 Website

http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/

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.

Click Here for detailed historical facts.

They've always known this was gonna happen, and they knew how to prevent the leevees from failing.

What was the problem then? $14 billion . No adminsitration since the 70's saw the need to spend that kind of money in New Orleans. Cheap a$$ pr|cks

Shame on them, cause its gonna cost TONS MORE to fix the city now.

Originally posted by fini
They've always known this was gonna happen, and they knew how to prevent the leevees from failing.

I heard yesterday on CNN that the levees didnt actually break, rather it was something to do with the flood walls.

Heck, cnn recently showed half the people that are making excuses now claiming that this could be a huge disaster this time last week.

It's now a finger pointing party. Alot of people are more concerned with covering their own ass than helping out.

Shame , its all a shame.

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.

Hmm I get CNN international, SO i dont know if this is the same one you all are smashing.

We get the domestic CNN up here in Canada.

Originally posted by KharmaDog
It's now a finger pointing party. Alot of people are more concerned with covering their own ass than helping out.

Including many on KMC.

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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...