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Last night on Fox, a broadcaster was preening himself because "we had said that the winds in New Orleans wouldn't be nearly as high as people on other networks predicted, and we were right."
Idiot.
Aside from the fact that NOLA was spared a direct hit, the threat from Katrina to the city was never really the high winds, although those were dangerous. It was the storm surge overwhelming the city's levee system and massive flooding taking place that had people really worried. Which, considering that some reports have as much as 80% of the city under water to some level (although not the French Quarter, which is good news for drunken frat boys everywhere), I'd say they were right.
Idiot.
Aside from the fact that NOLA was spared a direct hit, the threat from Katrina to the city was never really the high winds, although those were dangerous. It was the storm surge overwhelming the city's levee system and massive flooding taking place that had people really worried. Which, considering that some reports have as much as 80% of the city under water to some level (although not the French Quarter, which is good news for drunken frat boys everywhere), I'd say they were right.
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I wonder what happens after one of these newer-built places is totalled. Do people rebuild? Does anyone say "maybe we'd better give this area back to nature"? Or a different part? Or what?