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[Dave Aitel <dave () immunitysec com>]

> From Anonymous:

The thing with floods is... you know they're coming. It's a simple mater 
of geography and nowadays the processing of historical data and current 
weather data (when I worked for flood forecasting they were using some 
hoary old DG-mini running a US Army Corp.s of Engineering program 
written in Fortran to model our river system and potential floods/etc 
and getting weather updates every X minutes from enviro canada during 
flood season). A city that far below sea level (imagine 6 feet of 
water... now try 20. YIKES) is just a matter of time before the worst 
case scenario occurs (and that is a complete flood), how they missed 
that worst case scenario is beyond me (I guess they honestly thought the 
dikes and leevees would hold...). I also love how people are talking 
like NO can be rebuilt and put back to rights. Any business will 
currently be reconstituting itself outside NO, I mean you're looking at 
several months just to get in there and have basic utilities like 
electricity/water/sewage, nevermind a place ofr people to live safely 
and send their kids to school.... if I were an NO survivor my current 
task would be finding a new city and jobs/home, because unless you work 
in the port or oil industry out there you're probably never going back.

If you want to post this to the list please make it anonymous. People 
hate the truth in situations like this.

P.S. if you liked guns germs and steel a related but completely 
different book is "a brief history of everything".