Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Remember: K+6
Remembering Katrina, Day+6:
Note: The figure of 10,000 was not a number that Nagin pulled out of his, uh, the air. It was an estimate of Orleans Parish casualties from the large Hurricane Pam preparation exercise. At that point, local officials had assume that this was the worst case scenario they had outlined. The lower casualty figures for the metropolitan area are the result of the most successful evacuation of a major metropolitan area every attempted, with over 90% of the population evacuated.
Katrina NOLA New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Think New Orleans Louisiana FEMA levees flooding Corps of Engineers We Are Not OK wetlands news rebirth Debrisville Federal Flood 8-29 Rising Tide Remember
Note: The figure of 10,000 was not a number that Nagin pulled out of his, uh, the air. It was an estimate of Orleans Parish casualties from the large Hurricane Pam preparation exercise. At that point, local officials had assume that this was the worst case scenario they had outlined. The lower casualty figures for the metropolitan area are the result of the most successful evacuation of a major metropolitan area every attempted, with over 90% of the population evacuated.
Katrina NOLA New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Think New Orleans Louisiana FEMA levees flooding Corps of Engineers We Are Not OK wetlands news rebirth Debrisville Federal Flood 8-29 Rising Tide Remember
"And when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcome, but when we are silent we are still afraid. So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive." -- Audie Lorde
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