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To: altair19 who wrote (35613)	9/1/2005 11:37:35 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 361327

the Survival of New Orleans blog livejournal.com

To: altair19 who wrote (35613)	9/1/2005 1:03:55 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 361327

It was already built before we bought it from Napoleon and defended it from The Duke of Wellington.

To: altair19 who wrote (35613)	9/1/2005 1:43:47 PM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361327

Understood - but as the person on the radio said this morning - FEMA had computer models showing New Orleans would likely flood in a Cat 3 hurricane. Once at Cat 4 hurricane started towards NO, they had 2-3 days to reinforce the levees with extra sandbags, etc. One person from the Netherlands, and expert there - said it baffled him why a First World country would allow this kind of flooding to occur - that the levees could have been improved several days before when it was obvious the storm was coming towards NO - you would expect to find this kind of damage in a Third World country...