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Sun May-23-10 09:09 PM
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| 2. I watched a documentary on the weather channel today |
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about Katrina. One thing that stuck with me is that they said they were losing some 20 ft of wetlands a day, and this was made in 2005 I think. That's a huge loss. I may not have this right, but something about diverting the Mississippi no longer deposits the silt and allows the wetlands to grow or maintain their size. There was talk of letting the river loose in places to flood and start the deposits again.
The wetlands are so fragile and now they are an oily mess. This will not be good for hurricanes and other weather events.
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