My officemate pointed me to an article titled “What if Hurricane Ivan Had Not Missed New Orleans?” by Shirley Laska from the Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology at the University of New Orleans. The paper describes much of what has now happened in New Orleans, and what is likely to happen there in the coming days. If hazardous chemicals leak into the extreme flooding now occurring in the city, the toxic stew is likely to cause extremely long term damage to the soil and every surface it touches. Hopefully, most of the trains with chemical tankers made it out before the hurricane hit.
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Hi Robert
Glad to hear your mom is ok.
The situation in N.O. is just too un-fucking-believable. Tragic, on a scale we have never witnessed in this country, and just plain exasperating too. Why are they not airlifting food, medicine and water to the superdome in massive quantities? Who is in charge? Its a slow-motion nightmare. And Bush must have had a hard time keeping a straight face when he mentioned price gouging at the gas pumps.
I liked Chavez’s comments: “They had been saying 4 days before the hurricane struck that it was on a direct path and Vacation King at his ranch told people to flee but did not say how… It is incredible that the world’s greatest power with its planes, helicopters, scientific advances did not have any evacuation plan.”