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To: jlallen who wrote (731557)	3/13/2006 3:10:17 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

I did not think of it that way, a 5 screws no matter what. That has it's own merit. But failure and overtopping are radically different and the damage caused is radically different. I see no reason to build beyond 3. If Katrina was a 4, the levee were not overtopped this time.

To: jlallen who wrote (731557)	3/13/2006 3:12:58 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Respond to of 769670

he doesn't live there anymore he is up here with me and will not be going back, for he said "I could not endure going through that again" it will have to be decided if we as a country can afford to sink the money into building a cat5 levee system in New Orleans against what monetary pluses and services NO provides oil and gas, the fishing industry, Mississippi commerce from the heartland and the deepest ocean port in the world it all flows though NO

To: jlallen who wrote (731557)	3/13/2006 3:47:24 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

well, to be frank also, Nagin and Blanco had to deal with bad evac and contingency plans - if you could call them plans no working communications to speak of I don't think anyone could have handled it well everything that could go wrong went wrong the National Hurricane Center, called New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on the night of August 27 to express his extreme concern over hurricane Katrina and Nagin then called for a voluntary evacuation of the city that night it wasn't until the morning of august 28 that the National Weather Service issued the catastrophic bulletin - subsequently nagin immediately ordered a citywide mandatory evacuation [the first such order in the new orleans] by then many people couldn't leave, planes and trains were not running pre-disaster scenarios estimated that 100,000 or more residents would not have the transportation means to escape the city [that was right on] - the superdome was designated in advance as the "refuge of last resort" had been designated in advance - city buses were redeployed to shuttle local residents there with over 500 National Guard troops not enough troops, not enough refuges, not enough bus drivers they never expected 3 levees to fail they never expected most of the pumps to fail they never expected they percentage of looting and lawlessness no plan for marshall law and on and on and on much of the same thing could happen in Miami or Tampa or any large city on a coastal area or SanFran and La in a earthquake