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Scientists Think Like a Hurricane to Beat the Next Katrina
wired.com — When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in late August 2005 and the levees around the city broke, flooding the city and killing hundreds, Ed Link was as surprised as everyone else. He shouldn't have been. As one of the nation's foremost hurricane experts, Link, a professor at the University of Maryland, had access to the government's most sophist
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- zombies187, on 06/10/2008, -0/+1Well the levees were designed to hold back a category three hurricane. When Katrina hit NO, it had been reduced to a cat 3. The levee plans were not followed by the Corp of Engineers for whatever reason. The base of the levees were federally funded to go down dozens of feet. After the money was spent and the flood came and went, it was discovered that they stopped like ten feet down. The rest of the levee had vanished into some grifters pocket. These are you taxes and you should want to insure that they are spent wisely.
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