It is pics like the one above that remind me how powerful Mother Nature is. Forget a Prsident or how advanced our Nation is, Mother Nature could bring our Nation to Third World status overnight if she wanted to.
Seriously...what should be advanced is our organizational skills to mobilize and actually evacuate more people than they did. It is not like FEMA, the LA government or the city did not know that this was a possibility. People have been predicting a situation this grim for a while now.
If the people in power, and the people who voted for them actually gave two shits about anyone but themselves, the deathtoll would be in the low dozens.
This has passed crisis stage, but most of the nation won't realise until their local gas station starts rationing. So, next week.
Did anyone see the interview with the head of the Army Corp of Engineers? He was explaining why the levees failed. Basically because when they did their studies they determined all they needed to protect against was a level 3 hurricane. The reporter asks well how do you come to taht conclusion.
Army Corp. - Well there is a cost vs. benefit analysis that is done. We did the study and determined that to save money and what we thought they would need would be levees to withstand a level 3.
Now I am not saying that the analysis is necessarily wrong, however the fact that they were trying to save money on levees for a city that is built below sea level seems at the very least shortsighted and just weird...
Anyway the reporter then asked: How does that cost vs. benefit ratio look now... dude just stumbled around saying it is going to have to be re-reviewed... wow.
Did anyone see the interview with the head of the Army Corp of Engineers? He was explaining why the levees failed. Basically because when they did their studies they determined all they needed to protect against was a level 3 hurricane. The reporter asks well how do you come to taht conclusion.
Army Corp. - Well there is a cost vs. benefit analysis that is done. We did the study and determined that to save money and what we thought they would need would be levees to withstand a level 3.
Now I am not saying that the analysis is necessarily wrong, however the fact that they were trying to save money on levees for a city that is built below sea level seems at the very least shortsighted and just weird...
Anyway the reporter then asked: How does that cost vs. benefit ratio look now... dude just stumbled around saying it is going to have to be re-reviewed... wow.
It's always about statistical probability....you will never get around that. Now they are just going to have to bite the bullet, spend the money and hope that nothing worse than a level 5 ever hits, once they re-build those levees. Then rinse, lather and repeat when the worst case scenario happens....again.
On the return trip from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Air Force One flew over the Gulf Coast.
As the president passed over one Mississippi town, he remarked, "It's totally wiped out."
The president spent 35 minutes looking out the window as the aircraft passed over Louisiana and Mississippi and saw the damaged roof of the New Orleans Superdome and the city's flooded neighborhoods.
The president's plane flew about 2,500 feet over New Orleans and about 1,700 feet over Mississippi.
"It's devastating. It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground,"[/b] Bush said.
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If the people in power, and the people who voted for them actually gave two shits about anyone but themselves, the deathtoll would be in the low dozens.
This has passed crisis stage, but most of the nation won't realise until their local gas station starts rationing. So, next week.
Army Corp. - Well there is a cost vs. benefit analysis that is done. We did the study and determined that to save money and what we thought they would need would be levees to withstand a level 3.
Now I am not saying that the analysis is necessarily wrong, however the fact that they were trying to save money on levees for a city that is built below sea level seems at the very least shortsighted and just weird...
Anyway the reporter then asked: How does that cost vs. benefit ratio look now... dude just stumbled around saying it is going to have to be re-reviewed... wow.
It's always about statistical probability....you will never get around that. Now they are just going to have to bite the bullet, spend the money and hope that nothing worse than a level 5 ever hits, once they re-build those levees.
Then rinse, lather and repeat when the worst case scenario happens....again.
what a fucking idiot.
doubly devastating on air guitar.
County Dude: "Uh, gimme that guitar, bitch! You gots some work to do!"[/b]