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Charleston, SC. The last one was in Sept. '89, Hurricane Hugo. I know because I was there in Beaufort Naval Hosp. and had to tape all those fricking windows!
What people don't realize is that Katrina was a Category 2-3 when it hit NO, and the city was spared the worst quadrant of the storm. Yet the flooding was terrible.
While everybody pointed fingers at FEMA (And rightfully so), nobody really paid attention to the fact that the city and state governments also did abysmal jobs. Large-scale emergency plans had been devised, and were never used. The fact that the mayor didn't even call for an evacuation until a day before, when Katrina was churning up the Gulf as a Category 5, it tells you a lot. Yet, every disaster expert was predicting the same scenario that actually happened.
There hasn't been significant change in local government. The state has a new governor who is a real go-getter, but three years just isn't enough time to make adequate changes.
A category 4-5 would wipe New Orleans off the map.
What people don't realize is that Katrina was a Category 2-3 when it hit NO, and the city was spared the worst quadrant of the storm. Yet the flooding was terrible.
While everybody pointed fingers at FEMA (And rightfully so), nobody really paid attention to the fact that the city and state governments also did abysmal jobs. Large-scale emergency plans had been devised, and were never used. The fact that the mayor didn't even call for an evacuation until a day before, when Katrina was churning up the Gulf as a Category 5, it tells you a lot. Yet, every disaster expert was predicting the same scenario that actually happened.
There hasn't been significant change in local government. The state has a new governor who is a real go-getter, but three years just isn't enough time to make adequate changes.
A category 4-5 would wipe New Orleans off the map.
While it might not be a cat 4-5 this could still pose some major problems, big uncertainty at this time though a good link
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