Gone with the water
National Geographic
by Joel K. Bourne, Jr.
Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched .... Yet just as the risks of a killer storm are rising, the city's natural defenses are quietly melting away. From the Mississippi border to the Texas state line, Louisiana is losing its protective fringe of marshes and barrier islands faster than any place in the U.S. Since the 1930s some 1,900 square miles (4,900 square kilometers) of coastal wetlands—a swath nearly the size of Delaware or almost twice that of Luxembourg—have vanished beneath the Gulf of Mexico. Despite nearly half a billion dollars spent over the past decade to stem the tide, the state continues to lose about 25 square miles (65 square kilometers) of land each year, roughly one acre every 33 minutes... [Editor's note: Predicting the disaster in 2004 and showing what happens from environmental devastation... -MLS](2004)
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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An amazing story written by National Geographic in 2004 which validates the theory that the horrible tragedy provoked by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans could have been avoided if negligence didn't happened.
Angostura1819
by Joel K. Bourne, Jr.
Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched .... Yet just as the risks of a killer storm are rising, the city's natural defenses are quietly melting away. From the Mississippi border to the Texas state line, Louisiana is losing its protective fringe of marshes and barrier islands faster than any place in the U.S. Since the 1930s some 1,900 square miles (4,900 square kilometers) of coastal wetlands—a swath nearly the size of Delaware or almost twice that of Luxembourg—have vanished beneath the Gulf of Mexico. Despite nearly half a billion dollars spent over the past decade to stem the tide, the state continues to lose about 25 square miles (65 square kilometers) of land each year, roughly one acre every 33 minutes... [Editor's note: Predicting the disaster in 2004 and showing what happens from environmental devastation... -MLS](2004)
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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An amazing story written by National Geographic in 2004 which validates the theory that the horrible tragedy provoked by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans could have been avoided if negligence didn't happened.
Angostura1819
Starmail - 6. Sep, 19:06
