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...with the exception of the mayor, no one was in a better position than Blanco to know precisely what was needed and how soon. Not until the following day--Thursday, Sept. 1--did she come up with specifics: 40,000 troops; urban search-and-rescue teams; buses; amphibious personnel carriers; mobile morgues; trailers of water, ice and food; base camps; staging areas; housing; and communications systems...
...system? The good news is that most disasters don't compare to Katrina. Even 9/11 was not in the same category since the infrastructure of New York City--bridges, tunnels and roads--remained largely intact. That said, earthquakes, nuclear attacks or, say, the demolition of a dam near an urban center would create similarly appalling levels of destruction, experts say. Now the bad news: the response would probably be worse because we would have less time to prepare...
...little edgy when I hear water running in the bathtub. And I believe this storm will create one of the great migrations of Americans on a par with the Dust Bowl and the blacks moving out of the South in the 40s, 50s and 60s to the urban areas of the north...
...would have been expensive--in the billions, most likely. But certainly less costly than the Katrina recovery will turn out to be. Preventive work, however, would have had to start in the 1990s. That's how long the improvements would have taken. In 1996, Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project to upgrade levees and drainage and pumping stations along the Mississippi River. But Congress and successive Administrations were never willing to fund the project fully. Under George W. Bush, the shortfall was acute: from 2001 to 2005, the Corps asked for almost $496 million, according to figures...
...time it got to Chicago, Wal-Mart had learned something from its bad experience in Inglewood, where the retailer attempted to circumvent the city council by pushing for the necessary rezoning through a ballot referendum. Wal-Mart had then donated $65,000 to the Los Angeles Urban League and mounted a $1 million p.r. blitz. The locals got turned off by the attempted end-around play, and Wal-Mart lost the vote, with 60% of residents rejecting the store. Humbled, Scott changed the company's urban policy from one of remote maneuvering to direct community engagement--and made himself...