Post #182572 by tikivixen on Sun, Aug 28, 2005 2:15 PM

Here's a link to an interesting series of articles featuring a researcher who must be feeling like one depressed Cassandra right now:

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/wetlands/hurricane1.html

I think a lot of folks don't understand how bad this is--including many New Orleanians. I read a quote from one gal yesterday who said something like "If we can cope with Mardi Gras we can handle a hurricane." Riiight. I hope when she saw the Category 5 upgrade that she changed her mind and RAN.

I quote from a wiser New Orleans fellow's recent blog:

"In 2002, an American Red Cross estimate found 25,000 to 100,000 people would be killed if a major hurricane hit the New Orleans area."

Not only that, but studies have shown that even a hard brush from the edge of a Category Five could drown New Orleans under twenty to thirty feet of contaminated water and debris. Considerable loss of life would be a given.

Let's hope the Red Cross was WRONG, but I think we should probably be expecting the worst. This is heartbreaking.

I am so VERY glad to hear that so many tiki ohana have headed for higher ground!!! Let's hope everyone else is doing the same.