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[lapsedmodernist]

The government has a webpage specifically dedicated to a storm surge simulation, where New Orleans is flooded by a Category 4 storm.


Sure, there is NO WAY they could have predicted this.

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[convivium.livejournal.com]

The page that you link to is on the website of the National Hurricane Center--which not only predicted the hurricane and its consequences, but tried to get DHS/FEMA to listen:

"Dr. Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, told the Times-Picayune Sunday afternoon that officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, including FEMA Director Mike Brown and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, listened in on electronic briefings given by his staff in advance of Hurricane Katrina slamming Louisiana and Mississippi--and were advised of the storm’s potential deadly effects."

"Mayfield said the strength of the storm and the potential disaster it could bring were made clear during both the briefings and in formal advisories, which warned of a storm surge capable of overtopping levees in New Orleans and winds strong enough to blow out windows of high-rise buildings," the paper reported. "He said the briefings included information on expected wind speed, storm surge, rainfall and the potential for tornados to accompany the storm as it came ashore."

"We were briefing them way before landfall," Mayfield said. "It’s not like this was a surprise. We had in the advisories that the levee could be topped."

Editor & Publisher: Hurricane Center Director Tells Paper He Briefed Brown and Chertoff on Danger of Severe Flooding (9/4/05) (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054595)

it has been written

[tomorrow-devil.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the big ass apocalyptic-type feature story that the Times-Picayune itself ran a few years ago, all about what would happen if such a storm were to run New Orleans down. Oh, they had experts and a battle plan and everything, and the story was divided into five (?) parts spread out across a week, but apparently nobody took the initiative and acted on the information.

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[mjmj.livejournal.com]

they acted on it -- shrubco effectively cut it out of the budget. congress put money back in, but not within an order of magnitude of what was required. the wonders of undivided, one-party repub rule.

[convivium.livejournal.com]

Dear Leader being briefed on the expected devastation from Hurricane Katrina via videoconference by director Mayfield of the NHC on August 28, 2005. White House photo by Paul Morse (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/images/20050828-1_p082805pm-0101-515h.html).