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9.04.2005
On "Meet The Press" This Morning....
.... they had, as a guest, Mark Fischetti who authored an article for Scientific America in October 2001 entitled "Drowning New Orleans". It begins with the introduction of "A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city ."
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I think it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that something like this could happen. I think believing it will happen is another matter. They were betting the odds because they didn't want to spend the money to do the fix. They lost.
It would have been cheaper to fix it. We lost.
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