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Old September 2nd, 2005, 10:48 AM
Icono Clast
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Inter-active satellite map of New Orleans; street map; map defining
flooded parts:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?P39C128BB


The satellite image on the left at the URL below shows New Orleans as
it meets Lake Pontchartrain after Hurricane Katrina . . . The
satellite image on the right shows how it was on March 9, 2004:

http://tinyurl.com/7a8u3
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Old September 2nd, 2005, 12:27 PM
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attention, with the climatic change

"Icono Clast" escribió en el mensaje
news:1125655520.5e4c66afa71ef6e1b8f92ab7c838d32b@t eranews...
Inter-active satellite map of New Orleans; street map; map defining
flooded parts:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?P39C128BB


The satellite image on the left at the URL below shows New Orleans as
it meets Lake Pontchartrain after Hurricane Katrina . . . The
satellite image on the right shows how it was on March 9, 2004:

http://tinyurl.com/7a8u3
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Old September 2nd, 2005, 03:18 PM
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They can use your Dutch schwaag to ease their suffering.

Tim K

"Martin" wrote in message
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The Dutch are sending help.
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Old September 2nd, 2005, 05:40 PM
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Martin wrote:

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:48:50 -0700, Icono Clast
wrote:


Inter-active satellite map of New Orleans; street map; map defining
flooded parts:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?P39C128BB


The satellite image on the left at the URL below shows New Orleans as
it meets Lake Pontchartrain after Hurricane Katrina . . . The
satellite image on the right shows how it was on March 9, 2004:



The Dutch are sending help.


Hi,

the dutch are about the only folks besides the corp of engineers with
the kind of experience with dealing with living behind dikes and what to
do when they're breached.
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Old September 2nd, 2005, 05:47 PM
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"Anonymous" wrote in message
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Martin wrote:

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:48:50 -0700, Icono Clast
wrote:


Inter-active satellite map of New Orleans; street map; map defining
flooded parts:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?P39C128BB


The satellite image on the left at the URL below shows New Orleans as
it meets Lake Pontchartrain after Hurricane Katrina . . . The
satellite image on the right shows how it was on March 9, 2004:



The Dutch are sending help.


Hi,

the dutch are about the only folks besides the corp of engineers with the
kind of experience with dealing with living behind dikes and what to do
when they're breached.


That'll come as a great surprise to those of us who live in east anglia
and who have been living on reclaimed land behind dykes
for centuries

http://www.malcmoss.easynet.co.uk/landscape.htm

Keith




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Old September 2nd, 2005, 07:29 PM
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Keith W wrote:
"Anonymous" wrote in message
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Martin wrote:


On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:48:50 -0700, Icono Clast
wrote:



Inter-active satellite map of New Orleans; street map; map
defining flooded parts:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?P39C128BB


The satellite image on the left at the URL below shows New
Orleans as it meets Lake Pontchartrain after Hurricane Katrina
. . . The satellite image on the right shows how it was on
March 9, 2004:


The Dutch are sending help.


Hi,

the dutch are about the only folks besides the corp of engineers
with the kind of experience with dealing with living behind dikes
and what to do when they're breached.



That'll come as a great surprise to those of us who live in east
anglia and who have been living on reclaimed land behind dykes for
centuries

http://www.malcmoss.easynet.co.uk/landscape.htm

Keith


FROM THE ABOVE PAGE

In the 17th century an ambitious drainage scheme was formulated by
the Duke of Bedford who owned most of the land in the Thorney area
which received the blessing of Charles I. The Duke and his fellow
'Adventurers' invested a fortune in the scheme in return for large
parcels of reclaimed land and engaged Cornelius Vermuyden, an eminent
Dutch engineer, to undertake the work starting with the 21 mile long
Old Bedford River stretching from Earith to Denver Sluice in 1630.


so it seems a dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden did your dikes. :-}


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Old September 3rd, 2005, 02:01 AM
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Martin wrote:
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:18:46 GMT, "Timothy Kroesen"
wrote:

They can use your Dutch schwaag to ease their suffering.

Tim K

"Martin" wrote in message
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The Dutch are sending help.


The Dutch are sending experts who know how to fill a hole in a dyke,
since the only superpower in the world seems to be incapable of
anything except putting troops on streets.


Humm, they have much skill doing this after a Cat 4 Hurricane do they ?
Which Dutch helicopters have 20K lbs lift capacity ?

jay
Fri Sep 02, 2005




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Old September 3rd, 2005, 11:38 AM
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There is storm surge and then there is Hurricane storm surge... point
me to the last time NL had 15-25' surge over 1000 miles of coastline
combined with sustained 150mph winds for hours....NEVER!

In fact, the massive NEW gates in NL have never been tested and will
never experience what the Gulf Coast just went through. Katrina
recorded the the 4th lowest pressure in the Atlantic basin in more than
150 years...over an area 10x the size of NL.

Sand bags... these are not a bunch of people filling sand bags w/
shovels... they are 10K and 20K bags combined w/ huge "k" rails. This
is what is required with breaches 200-300 meters wide.... that requires
helicopters assets that few nations have... the Dutch are not among
these nations.

Thankfully, the Dutch will never experience this type of cataclysmic
event... nor the associated tornados... not to mention earthquakes and
heat waves.

But if you have been watching the BBC for your info... your comments
are understandable... they have had few engineers interviewed... they
concentrate on "Political Science" Profs addressing the hardship on
American blacks... the majority population of NOLA ... by far.

NASA and her billions of US taxpayer dollars... saved millions... it
was their SATs that provide early warning for the entire world.

As I said at the time of the asian tsunami, it is defence spending that
saves live during natural disasters... and "per-capita" spending alone
does not build
mighty ships like USS Iwa Jima w/ her massive helicopter airlift
capacity and desalinization water plants.

Today's "heat index" in the Gulf Coast is approaching 46C... what is
the "heat index" in Amsterdam today ?

jay
Sat Sep 03, 2005


.... posting from London

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Old September 3rd, 2005, 12:39 PM
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Note: The author (Martin) of this message requested that it not be
archived. This message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Sep 10,
12:12 pm).

Why Martin do you choose to NOT have your posts archived ?

On 3 Sep 2005 03:38:17 -0700, "Go Fig" wrote:

There is storm surge and then there is Hurricane storm surge... point
me to the last time NL had 15-25' surge over 1000 miles of coastline
combined with sustained 150mph winds for hours....NEVER!
In fact, the massive NEW gates in NL have never been tested



They were used several times last winter. As were the ones in London.


You mean they were actually closed for the first times... but not a
test of their capacity. New
Orleans has had the practical tests of Betsy and Camille...

The problem this time is people did not heed the waring...somewhat
understandable with the recent misses of Ivan and Dennis... some of my
relatives only left with hours before landfall.


and will
never experience what the Gulf Coast just went through. Katrina
recorded the the 4th lowest pressure in the Atlantic basin in more than
150 years...over an area 10x the size of NL.
Sand bags... these are not a bunch of people filling sand bags w/
shovels... they are 10K and 20K bags combined w/ huge "k" rails. This
is what is required with breaches 200-300 meters wide.... that requires
helicopters assets that few nations have... the Dutch are not among
these nations.



The Dutch use barges


A barge on the incredibly narrow 17th St canal with a breach of 300
meters... please... putting a 'thumb' in the dyke is a joke.... but you
use whatever you can till you can get the "K" rails and sand bags...
that can then be further supported by steel.

and rafts pile drivers and steel shuttering, as
I have read are being used in New Orleans.



Thankfully, the Dutch will never experience this type of cataclysmic
event... nor the associated tornados... not to mention earthquakes and
heat waves.



The Dutch experienced it in 1945 & 1953.


No... you did not experience anything like Katrina.

But if you have been watching the BBC for your info... your comments
are understandable... they have had few engineers interviewed... they
concentrate on "Political Science" Profs addressing the hardship on
American blacks... the majority population of NOLA ... by far.


NASA and her billions of US taxpayer dollars... saved millions... it
was their SATs that provide early warning for the entire world.



and not Eumetsat's Meteosats?


No.

jay
Sat Sep 03, 2005



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Martin

 




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