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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (135047)	8/29/2005 9:59:27 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793568

Had Katrina remained on its predicted path, and not weakened, it would have gone straight over NO as a Cat 5 storm. As it happened, it weakened slighly and turned east, so the NO got the less powerful Western part of storm. Could you predict that this was going to happen? Neither could anybody else. The worst case looked like the most probable case, so the worst case is what they had to advertise. Which would you prefer, dislocation of 100,000 that turned out to be unnecessary, or thousands dead under 20 feet of water because reality turned out to be worse than the forecast?