Re: Laure Bush - Myanmar yes, New Orleans no...

On Tue, 06 May 2008 15:49:45 -0600, Doug Wickstrom
<nimshubur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Tue, 06 May 2008 06:16:28 -0400, mike weber
><fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 05 May 2008 18:39:16 -0600, Doug Wickstrom
>><nimshubur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>You're not seriously arguing that the people of New Orleans
>>>weren't warned of the approach of Hurricane Katrina, or that they
>>>were at risk?
>>
>>o, but the treatment of the possibility of such a thing happening was
>>pretty well ignored by *all* Administrations since at least Johnson's.
>
>Ivan had already demonstrated the risk just a couple of years
>earlier.  The possibility was _not_ ignored.

Why then was nothing even in process of being done?

The CoE had specified *exactly* what they felt was needed - back at
least in the Johnson years - and were told to revise their proposals
for milder potential storms, and then denied the budget to do even
*that*.