Katrina

sfb wrote:
I saw one blurb saying it would be a month before they
will let residents back into town.

Bet they'll have even more trouble getting people to leave the next time they
want to evacuate someplace. AP is saying less than a week.

The pumps can handle about 1" of rain
an hour. So they have to close the holes in the dikes, get power back to
the pumps, start pumping, and then start cleaning.

While they're closing holes in the dikes, they'll be bringing in additional
pumps, some of which will have their own power supplies. Any major port will
have many of these.

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