New Orleans faces doomsday in hurricane scenario
KEEPING ITS HEAD ABOVE WATER
New Orleans faces doomsday scenario
ERIC BERGER, Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle Science Writer
And its main buffer from a hurricane, the protective Mississippi River delta, is quickly eroding away, leaving the historic city perilously close to disaster.
So vulnerable, in fact, that earlier this year the
Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked the potential damage to New Orleans as among the
three likeliest, most castastrophic disasters facing this country.
The other two?
A massive earthquake in San Francisco, and, almost prophetically, a terrorist attack on New York City.
The
New Orleans hurricane scenario may be the deadliest of all.
New Orleans faces doomsday in hurricane scenario