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<DIV><SPAN class=734050320-02092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Ted,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=734050320-02092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>That
super volcano story sure is fascinating, I can believe the geology but a FEMA
detention center for 2 million people near Fairbanks, Alaska, built in a giant
mental facility...yea right..heck the State of Alaska sends most of its
prisoners and mental cases to the Lower 48. FEMA can't even take care
of the 40,000 refugees at the Superdome. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=734050320-02092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
nation as a whole has ignored our infrastructure since the 1980's
Just take a look at the loss of rail capacity in Latah County and then multiply
that across the US. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=734050320-02092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
attended meeting in Spokane that the US DOT held, their officials expressed
grave concern about our nations ability to handle disruption in freight, their
worse case scenarios are playing out as I type. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=734050320-02092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Right
now here in good old Fairbanks there are huge lines at the commissary on
Forth Wainwright and my wife was telling me that even at the Safeway in North
Pole people are stocking up and buying two to three cart loads of
food. People have lost confidence and are
scared.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=734050320-02092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Chris
Storhok</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Tbertruss@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 02, 2005
11:30 AM<BR><B>To:</B> vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020]
Netherland's Approach Better Than New Orleans<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT
face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10">All:<BR><BR>Those who are saying the Hurricane Katrina disaster
would have been this bad with thousands killed no matter what improvements
were made to the New Orleans levy system perhaps should study the system the
Netherlands has in place. <BR><BR>It has been known for decades that the
New Orleans levy system needed improvements and modernization. FEMA's
own study of this situation revealed this disaster could happen with a
hurricane of Katrina's power. It is clear that funding could have been
made available to improve the New Orleans levy system to achieve greater
safeguards against the catastrophic flooding we see now. This lack of
commitment to this problem goes back before the Bush administration, though
his administration continued the neglect.<BR><BR>This neglect of the
infrastructure that could have lessened the impact of this disaster in waiting
was deliberate ... with fingers crossed! Just because eventually the
Mississippi River will reclaim New Orleans is no excuse for not keeping
millions of people safe. <BR>The approach should have been to make New
Orleans as safe as practically possible, given the fact the city was not going
to be abandoned because of its tenuous location.<BR><BR>Seattle is waiting for
the big one (earthquake), and we could maybe get hit when the Yellowstone
supervolcano (no joke!) blows, so nature presents future disasters of many
kinds that should be planned for, if possible. Is Seattle going to be
abandoned because of earthquake threats, or are we going to abandon Moscow
because of the Yellowstone supervolcano threat?<BR><BR>The first link below is
about the Yellowstone supervolcano, the rest focus on the dikes in the
Netherlands. <BR><BR><A
href="http://www.earthmountainview.com/yellowstone/yellowstone_press_release.htm">http://www.earthmountainview.com/yellowstone/yellowstone_press_release.htm</A><BR><BR><A
href="http://www.student.uib.no/~stud1713/HAZARD10.html">http://www.student.uib.no/~stud1713/HAZARD10.html</A><BR><BR><A
href="http://www.cruise.com/LE5/Default/LocationID_9692/index.html">http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:P90uMLxZaqEJ:www.eccenet.org/Activities/Environ/ENVEasternscheldt.pdf+amsterdam+dikes+stronger+storm+surge&hl=en
</A><BR><A
href="http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?visitid=6099">http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?visitid=6099</A><BR>--------------------------<BR><BR>Vision2020
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