Please, what issue of National Geographic talked about the levees?

[El Supremo]

I tried the search both here and at National Geographic. Too many entries.

[TomInTib]

1. Pretty sure it was Oct '04

[Walt Starr]

2. October 2004

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/

[qanda]

6. Good Lord

That sounds like a script for what just happened. Unbelievable.

[Walt Starr]

8. The word that comes to mind is "Prescient" n/t

[MissB]

3. Page 88, October 2004 The Incredible Shrinking Bayou.

[El Supremo]

5. Thanks to all.

It says "even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in New Orleans, claiming the risk to its workers is too great."

[swag]

4. I know Scientific American

Title: Drowning New Orleans.
Authors: Fischetti, Mark
Source: Scientific American; Oct2001, Vol. 285 Issue 4, p76, 10p,

[Captain Hilts]

7. Scientific American had one in 2001. That was on MacNeil/Leherer (nt)

[uppityperson]

9. Here are the first few paragraphs hand typed from the magazine

...
But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. SOme 200,000 remained, however-the car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw a party.

The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea level-more than eight feet below in places-so the water poured in. A liquid bron wall washed over the brick ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the Garden District, until it raced through the bars and strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of the Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet over parts of the city, people climbed onto roofs to escape it.

Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrila waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. it took two months to pump te city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.

When did this calamity happen? It hasn't-yet.

hand typed from magazine

[TahitiNut]

10. Here's a list of articles published in the last 5 years, compiled by LSU.

Many of the articles are made available on LSU's website, as well. They make it VERY, VERY clear that the Bushoilini Regime is responsible for much of the catastrophic result ... a result that could've been made much less severe.

http://www.hurricane.lsu.edu/in_the_news.htm