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Originally posted by mmm3587
[New Orleans stuff.]
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Good luck to your family and friends there. I know a number of people from Louisiana and so far they all seem to be okay, other than the loss of property. Luckily, it seems a lot of people did evacuate (those who could do so, that is). It is devastating to see this happening to the people there and it is hard to feel so helpless. Is there even a timeline yet to get the levees blocked enough to get the floodwaters out?
It does remind me of 9/11 and of last year's tsunamis. And while I disagree that it is worth even characterizing which tragedy has a bigger impact as measured at some point in the future, it is alarming to know that this could happen to a large population center in the United States and that we could apparently lack the resources or the organizational capacity to deal with this effectively for this period of time. Incredible and sad.
