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To: combjelly who wrote (249567)	9/5/2005 1:58:46 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574061

The midwest got flooded big time in 1993. They didn't have such problems, either. There were helicopters all over the place pulling people off of roofs and dropping supplies almost immediately. I remember these floods well. First, remember that there were "helicopters all over the place pulling people off of roofs" immediately in New Orleans. Immediately. The resources were committed to trying to save lives rather than "dropping supplies" on the basis that the Superdome presumably had adequate supplies for a day or two. Wrong. And the area was much, much larger. The area was 17,000 square miles and contained NO major cities; total people displaced was under 50,000. The severe damage areas for Katrina are 90,000 square miles total, and the number of displaced people will easily exceed 1.25 million. At its worst, the 1993 flood left 200,000 in Des Moines without water for the better part of a month, but most of the city was not flooded. The New Orleans flood happened over a matter of hours, while the 1993 floods occurred over an extended period. This just isn't a comparable event. It was terrible, but nothing on the scale of New Orleans, even without considering the rest of the Gulf Coast. It is nuts to think that a faster federal response would have been in any way conceivable. I know everyone WANTS it, but from a technical standpoint, it is difficult to see how that might have occurred.