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[The Corpus Callosum] It's GRL Time!: The Katrinadisaster got her to thinking that, since she lives on a geologicalfault line, she ought to get an emergency preparedness kit for herself. She provides tips on where to get the necessary supplies, andwhat to include.
[Sleep Spent] “A rant from the Right,” with comments: I assume he, like I, was proccupied to the point of distraction by the events in New Orleans, in particular. I know he was reading and watching, because he sent me an e-mail yesterday that I’m going to post here in its entirety, with my comments intersperesed.
[Blue Ibis] Nuggets of Truth: . I don't know anything about Louisiana. Over here, we had the Coast Guard in Monday night. They took 1,700 people off the roofs of houses with guys hanging off of helicopters to get them. They sent us a million meals last night because we'd eaten everything through. Everything hasn't been perfect here, by any stretch of the imagination, Tim. But the federal government has been good partners to us. They've tried hard. Our people have tried hard. Firemen and policemen and emergency medical people, National Guard, highway patrolmen working virtually around the clock, sleeping in their cars when they could sleep. And we've made progress every day.
[Msnbc.msn.com] Cosmic Log: A new New Orleans? - Cosmic Log - MSNBC.com: In a press advisory, a levee expert from the New Jersey Institute of Technology says the reason for the breaches may not have been what you think: "It appears that the levee failures in New Orleans were induced by subsurface seepage through the soils, not by overtopping,” said John Schuring, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at NJIT. "Given the fact that the levees were built and retrofitted many times over the years, and also given the fact that other weaknesses in the soil may exist, care must be taken when the city is dewatered to avoid another failure."
[Terrapass.com] TerraBlog from TerraPass | TerraPass - Clean up after your car ...: Clint Hendler at MojoBlog, the blog for Mother Jones Magazine, .Driving a vehicle, and creating climate change is something that everyone does almost .
[Washingtonmonthly.com] The Washington Monthly: The people in New Orleans and Mississippi had a chance to escape but the animals locked in cages or closed environments did not. Animals in their natural surroundings such as lions, tigers, and elephants in Africa adapt to natural disasters such as this but all of the animals in the zoos, pet stores, and cages in people's houses and yards most likely died without even having a chance.
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