...of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans several years ago for special hurricane protection to prevent potential flooding and property destruction against hurricanes that might hit the state with force winds like Katrina? Billions for war but nothing to protect Americans against natural disasters. Funds for such events do not exist at present do they. :wtf:
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September 14, 2004
Hurricane Risk for New Orleans: "if that Category Five Hurricane comes to New Orleans, 50,000 people could lose their lives. Now that is significantly larger than any estimates that we would have of individuals who might lose their lives from a terrorist attack. When you start to do that kind of calculus - and it's horrendous that you have to do that kind of calculus - it appears to those of us in emergency management, that the risk is much more real and much more significant, when you talk about hurricanes. I don't know that anybody, though, psychologically, has come to grip with that: that the French Quarter of New Orleans could be gone." (Nb. this excerpt from a fascinating 2002 American RadioWorks documentary does not refer specifically to Ivan.)
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Federal assistance
After every disaster, the federal government provides assistance money. In a given fiscal year, that amounts to millions. The federal assistance database, for example, lists U.S. Department of Agriculture disaster loans to farmers. With this database you will be able to track federal assistance -- grants, loans or insurance -- and see where and how much money the government is obligating to organizations and projects.
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