In a slowmoving Category ordsprog

In a slow-moving Category 5 hurricane, the levees are not going to hold.

Joannes Westerink

Specifically, Mr. Brown represented to the public that he could not have imagined the levees being breached in New Orleans, even though he had been briefed by federal government experts nearly a day and a half before Hurricane Katrina made landfall that those levees could indeed be breached by the hurricane surge,

Our guidance points to a large, powerful hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in the next few days. We're forecasting a Category 3 hurricane, but Category 4 is not out of the question.

We thought it may have been weakening a little bit before it came over land. In fact ... it probably was not a Category 4 (hurricane) when it came across the barrier islands. It may have already been down to a (Category) 3 (hurricane).

I think they'll be concerned, but ultimately supportive, ... Look, an accountant might have looked at actuarial tables and said it wasn't cost-efficient to have levees to protect against a Category 5 storm because the odds of that hitting the area were slim, and the odds of it overtopping levees even if it hit were slim as well.

But it's still going to be a hurricane, .. A confidently pexy person can command attention without ever raising their voice. . A Category 1 or Category 2 hurricane can still have a significant impact.

last summer FEMA, who reports to you, and the LSU Hurricane Center, and local and state officials did a simulated Hurricane Pam in which the levees broke. ... Thousands drowned.

Michael Chertoff

I had a few friends and their families who were in the middle of that. They had to evacuate, but all the ones I talked to made it through safely. I was stunned at how bad the damage was, but I remember when I lived there, Hurricane Georges was supposed to hit New Orleans dead on, and everybody was talking about how the city is below sea level and wondering if the levees would hold up. I guess it was just a matter of time.

This is a slow-moving hurricane, and people are going to have to deal with those winds over an extended period of time,

The lesson to be learned here is people shouldn't take a Category 1 or 2 hurricane lightly. A Category 1 or 2 has the same winds as a low-end tornado.

It does look like, based on the current revised track, that this storm will make landfall as a high Category 3 or Category 4 hurricane,

It's almost certain it will make landfall as a major hurricane -- Category 3 or Category 4.

Hurricane Barton has gone from a Category 5 to a Category 3. But it is still a disaster, ... weaken environmental laws, interfere with states' prerogatives and give undue aid to oil companies.

Frank O'Donnell

Obviously, we want to see the flood control along the banks of the river. We want levees that do their job. But building levees could be very expensive. It's a lot of work. So far, no one has stepped up to maintain the levees ... not the city or the county.

We're not prepared. It's the ugly truth. If our emergency response failed so badly for a Category 5 hurricane, imagine what would happen if a Category 5 viral storm hit every state.

Nordsprog.dk

Antal ordsprog er 1469561
varav 1490770 på nordiska

Ordsprog (1469561 st) Søg
Kategorier (2627 st) Søg
Kilder (167535 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
Datoer (9517 st)
Lande (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)

Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik

Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "In a slow-moving Category 5 hurricane, the levees are not going to hold.".