"If a flood of Biblical proportions were to lay waste to New Orleans, Joe Suhayda has a good idea how it would happen. A Category 5 hurricane would come barreling out of the Gulf of Mexico. It would cause Lake Pontchartrain, north of New Orleans, to overflow, pouring down millions of gallons of water on the city. Then things would really get ugly. Evacuation routes would be blocked. Buildings would collapse. Chemicals and hazardous waste would dissolve, turning the floodwaters into a lethal soup. In the end, what was left of the city might not be worth saving. " (Time)
This article was written in 2000.
This article was written in 2000.
posted by Dody G. at 7:44 PM
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Anybody have access to the whole article?
2:58 AM
here is the link to the article referred to from Time:
http://www.time.com/time/reports/mississippi/orleans.html
and you might find this one interesting as well. it's with the same guy and a couple pictures to boot:
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/wetlands/hurricane1.html
9:05 AM
You rock. Thanks.
8:43 PM
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