Compared to us, Big Easy is in hurricane hell

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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12529207.htm

BY FRED GRIMM

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New Orleans, its levees breached, descends into alluvial muck like a sinking ship. Biloxi and Gulfport are battered into a reprise of this same ghastly stretch of the Gulf Coast 36 summers ago.

We watch, gasp at the annihilation, death and hardship. It's so hard not to wonder: Could this be South Florida?

We're situated, like an act of defiance, at the end of a peninsula jutting into Hurricane Alley, a statistically more likely target than any single Gulf Coast community.

But does the ruin wreaked by Katrina's second landfall offer a prophecy for South Florida? Not quite. Though this may be an exercise of separating the horrible from the merely miserable, certain topographical and political advantages give South Florida some protection from the utter catastrophe experienced along the Gulf coast.

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