{"id":394,"date":"2005-09-01T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T21:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=394"},"modified":"2005-09-01T15:24:18","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T22:24:18","slug":"in-the-wake-of-katrina-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/in-the-wake-of-katrina-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Wake of Katrina, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s this for a dumb place to put a city in the first place:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smm.org\/buzz\/media_static\/hurricane_katrina\/levee_system_big.gif\" alt=\"New Orleans Levee System\" \/><br \/>\nThanks to Science Museum of Minnesota for this image<\/p>\n<p>And the result&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" with=\"640\" height=\"256\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/26\/39209989_10e4c27a9e_o.jpg\" alt=\"Before and After Flooding\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amid the sympathy, however, there was criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Experts in the Netherlands expressed surprise that New Orleans&#8217; flood systems failed to restrain the waters.<\/p>\n<p>With half of the country&#8217;s population of 16 million living below sea level, the Netherlands prepared for a &#8220;perfect storm&#8221; soon after floods in 1953 killed 2,000 people. The nation installed massive hydraulic sea walls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to sound overly critical, but it&#8217;s hard to imagine that [the damage caused by Katrina] could happen in a Western country,&#8221; said Ted Sluijter, spokesman for the park where the sea walls are exhibited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Seattle Times, September 1, 2005<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAbout the levee breakage:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/graphic\/2005-08\/19243721.gif\" alt=\"Levee break and attemps to fix\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And once again we learn, but always a little late, that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s this for a dumb place to put a city in the first place: Thanks to Science Museum of Minnesota for this image And the result&#8230; Amid the sympathy, however, there was criticism. Experts in the Netherlands expressed surprise that New Orleans&#8217; flood systems failed to restrain the waters. With half of the country&#8217;s population [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}