[lit-ideas] Re: Katrina
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 23:17:48 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/2/2005 11:06:04 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Katrina
>
>
> >PAS: > The upshot of the storm was that it was going to flood a city that
> > > was plotted in a bowl, below sea level, at the mouth of one of the
> > > biggest rivers in the world, in a known HURRICANE area. The property
> > loss was
> > > inevitable.
> >
> >A.A. It was not inevitable, not at all inevitable. Al Qaeda has to
love
> >Bush. I'm serious.
>
> Do you understand the power of water? Do you KNOW how much it weighs? Do
> you know the wrath of a mile-wide river moving while swollen with
> torrential rain water? People have become too comfortable with
> 'technology'. Before the levees broke, when there were just a few feet of
> water in people's basements, they were complaining that 'the pumps are
only
> pumping an inch an hour. They have no CLUE how much that is. Do some very
> simple calculations and calculate 20 square miles by 1 inch. Figure how
> many gallons that is. Still underwhelmed? Still going to complain? Faced
> with the possibility of going down hill, water WILL. The pressure of
> several dozen feet of water is immense. When it's moving, it's increased
> incredibly. How much do we need to spend on the levee? How 'secure' does
a
> city need to be? Woulda Coulda Shoulda. The facts are what they are. The
> problem is that the city was NOT safe, could not possibly be safe, and
was
> in jeopardy because of this immense amount of rain that fell and ran off.
> It is now under water.
>
> People should have left. People didn't leave. People rely on technology
and
> can't cope. 2 feet of shit in the stair well? They can't even improvise
how
> to flush a toilet without pushing the button. That's pathetic. Flush
> toilets are very, very simple, gravity governed mechanisms. You don't
need
> running water to flush. There was water everywhere. The survivors are
> living in squalor after only 5 days. Doesn't this teach us a lesson about
> how close we are teetering on anarchy? What is appalling is how helpless
> people are really. Left to their own devices, most people can't think
their
> way out of a paper bag. Nobody took control? Of course not, they were
> waiting for the government to. Unfortunately, the teet was dry.
>
So you're saying it was a good thing Bush ignored requests by the Army
Corps of Engineers and cut FEMA? There was no reason to shore up the
levees? Maybe you're right. Maybe they should put all those people on
helicopters and fly them into the ocean and drop them. Including the
children, since who wants to be bothered with all those brats. Regarding
flushing the toilets, even if they could have gotten buckets and flushed
with buckets, the sewers were backed up. Water was to the rooftops. Where
did you expect it to go? Looks like even if the people don't matter, what
about all the industry that's down there?
Andy
> paul
>
> _________________
> [insert pithy quote here]
> Paul Stone
> pas@xxxxxxxx
> Leamington, ON. Canada
>
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