I can see Kathy wearing the traditional dress on TV,
JoanK - but am still wondering about her wearing it when she went home to relaz with her sisters and her mother. Something else was going on there, don't you think?
I think we are blessed to have you with us,
Salan - you lived in Baton Rouge, where Kathy and the girls are staying - and you took in hurricane refugees. You know what these people lived through.
Can't find much on the Superdome and plans for future emergencies. Everything I'm reading indicates there is a new plan in place for feeding stations around the city, but the emphasis is on the fact that it was the breached levee that caused the flood. It is believe that the repaired levees will prevent such flooding again. At least, is where the federal money is going. Here's an excerpt from one article I read -
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NEW ORLEANS — Five years after Hurricane Katrina flooded more than 80 percent of this city, the Army Corps of Engineers says billions of dollars of work has made the city much safer and many of its defenses could withstand a storm as strong as the deadly 2005 hurricane.
Since Katrina flooded New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005, and killed more than 1,800 people, New Orleans has become a round-the-clock construction site and Congress gave the Army Corps more than $14 billion to fix and upgrade the levees and other defenses. Numerous breaches in the hurricane protection system led to the flooding that devastated the New Orleans area.
The corps says about half of the work is complete, and the rest should be finished by next summer.
The threat of flooding from another storm remains a top concern in the city, which has a population that's about 80 percent of what it was before Katrina.
The corps has given itself until June 2011 to make the city safer from big storms, and says it will meet the deadline. Once the upgrades are complete, the corps says very little of the city would flood if a storm like Katrina were to hit again.
The corps' brass say that even such a storm were to hit tomorrow, the city would be in much better shape.
Rogers said that while "everybody's attention is focused on what failed the last time,"
the next major storm could expose new weak points.
Despite the uncertainties, residents are feeling better about their chances."
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