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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does it compare to Katrina as of right now? Better, worse, or the same?[/quote]

Different. Stronger winds, storm surge is hard to compare because people inside new levees *should* be safe *if* they hold. People outside levees along that coast will die if they have not evacuated.

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This. You cannot compare Katrina to anything else because when Katrina passed, New Orleans was unscathed. Then the levees failed and the city flooded. Katrina was as much a man made disaster as a natural one.

The levees were substantially upgraded and the city of new Orleans should be spared from the storm surge. There's still three major threat of flooding from rain, the wind, and there may not be power for weeks. But it still look very different than it did after Katrina assuming the levees hold.

Everywhere outside the federal levee system should have evacuated. If not, they'll need a miracle.[/quote]
I was living in New Orleans when Katrina hit (grad student at Tulane). I evacuated to a friend's parents' house in Atlanta. We were watching the news the night that it hit and were all like "oh, not too bad!" and started to make plans to drive back the following afternoon. Then when we woke up that morning and turned the news back on and saw the destruction from the levee failures...we realized that wouldn't be happening for a long, long time.

It's different this time. Like you said, the horrific effects from Katrina were largely due to crappy engineering of the levees (man made). With this one, the threat comes from the actual storm. It'll be bad, but I don't think on the scale of Katrina. We'll see. [/quote]

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