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To: Road Walker who wrote (248021)	8/29/2005 7:42:05 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574002

"As I said before, it's at least a day or two before you can judge these things... " Still, it could have been much, much worse for New Orleans. In what must be a massive case of bad timing, the Bush administration has proposed cutting $71.2 million from the 2006 budget for the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The money, of course, would be used mainly for hurricane and flood prevention measures. No doubt the cut will be quietly dropped.

To: Road Walker who wrote (248021)	8/29/2005 8:52:51 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574002

re: What hurricane? The news is just starting to filter out. As I said before, it's at least a day or two before you can judge these things... the really bad areas are black zones.. no info in or out. And still this was much better than expected... it weakened dramatically before landfall, probably the start of an eye wall recycle, pure luck. And it took a jog east by a few degrees... essentially saving much of NO from devastation. I was being flip. I had just heard that NO had been spared the worse and its oil refiners were in okay condition. Of course, there is no real word yet on the oil rigs out in the Gulf. They could be a mess. As for NO, it best learn a lesson from this one and build up those levees. Given the worse case/doomsday scenario, I can not believe how complacent the city has been........the Big Easy notwithstanding. And if these over the top hurricanes are not just an aberration but the beginning of a new major hurricane cycle, they best get to work asap. ted

To: Road Walker who wrote (248021)	8/30/2005 4:15:40 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574002

As I said before, it's at least a day or two before you can judge these things... the really bad areas are black zones.. no info in or out. This was true of the Xmas tsunami in Asia. The first news of the damage came out of the relatively wealthy resort areas in Thailand and Sri Lanka, and the death toll slowly climbed toward 50,000. Then a few days after the event when they saw what the tsunami did to Northern Sumatra (which is really poor and right next to the epicenter of the quake) it jumped in about a day to 150,000. The resorts got hit with 10-20 foot tall waves, whereas the rural coastline of Sumatra appeared to have been hit with waves twice the height and caused enough devastation that there was virtually no one around left to tell the story.