Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Just waiting to happen
Seems like those stories about having swamp land to sell, didn't get noticed...
From Reuters in St. Louis via Yahoo!:
"St. Louis and Sacramento, California, may be the next two U.S. flooding disasters waiting to happen, with rivers prone to overflow and insufficient levees protecting developments that never should have been allowed, experts said on Saturday."
"U.S. officials have not absorbed the lessons of Hurricane Katrina, in which floodwaters breached levees and inundated most of New Orleans, relying on outdated models to forecast risks to low-lying areas and allowing development in places that have been under 10 feet of water as recently as 1993."
