>>>Received the following aerial photo of New Orleans from a GIS mailing list I'm on
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http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/katrina/new_orleans_msi_aug31_2005_dg.jpg>>
>>Was it luck, or have they thought about it beforehand: All roofs are higher than the water level.
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>Isn't the height of the lowest roofs just about the depth below sea-level of the city?
Think of the number of deaths if those roofs would also have been gone under water.
All people were offered the possibility to leave the city beforehand. One out of five stayed and they are now the biggest problem.
Groet,
Peter de Valença
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