[SpamCop-Social] Re: Katrina Conspiracy?

[Pete Stephenson]

In article <dfqt62$37m$1 at news.spamcop.net>,
 "Heidi" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote:

> That's kind of the point - "course deviation" in a storm of that size is
> irrelevent, if it wasn't N.O., some town, somewhere on the gulf coast, was
> going to get blown off the map.  There was no excuse for being so ill
> prepared. What if that had been a bomb?

Perhaps, but the amount of damage a hurricane could do to a small town 
is orders of magnitude less than the amount of damage it could do to New 
Orleans. Also, certain regions of the hurricane possess more destructive 
power than others. It's possible that a small town was hit with a 
more-destructive region and suffered greater structural damage than 
buildings in New Orleans...not taking into account post-hurricane damage 
like flooding.

Even so, that wasn't the original poster's point. He was wondering if it 
were possible that the levees were purposely sabotaged (or not given 
enough funding for maintenance) to eliminate the poor or other 
"undesirables".

Even if it had been a bomb, it would have caused far less destruction. 
If it had been an actual, full-fledged city-busting fusion bomb, the 
damage would be different, but I doubt it would have the same effect. 
Given the same warning, I think more people would be able to flee the 
area of affect of a nuclear bomb and get themselves to safety. The 
oil-processing facilities would likely be a total loss and the region 
would be inhabitable for quite some time. I suspect that many more 
people, even the very poor, would rather walk out of the effective range 
of a nuclear bomb than take their chances with a hurricane. With a 
hurricane, you have modest odds of surviving if you have a good plan, 
supplies, and good shelter. With a nuclear blast, the odds are very 
small that you'd survive, and the odds of surviving the radioactive 
wasteland that would then surround you and making it to safety would be 
very, very tiny.

-- 
Pete Stephenson
HeyPete.com