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Posted by Dinah on July 27, 2006, at 17:07:37
Scary.
A bit hard for me to follow sometimes, but scary.
Posted by Dinah on July 27, 2006, at 18:19:38
In reply to Rising Tide, posted by Dinah on July 27, 2006, at 17:07:37
Oops. That was meant for the book board, but perhaps my subconscious knows best.
Never mind.
Posted by AuntieMel on July 28, 2006, at 17:32:42
In reply to Re: Rising Tide » Dinah, posted by Dinah on July 27, 2006, at 18:19:38
Also political, though a book
I'm about halfway through it.
Posted by Dinah on July 29, 2006, at 10:33:11
In reply to Re: Rising Tide » Dinah, posted by AuntieMel on July 28, 2006, at 17:32:42
That looks interesting. I'll have to look into it.
I think what really opened my eyes in "Rising Tide" was about the dynamiting of the levees. I'd always heard the rumors and wondered how on earth people came up with these crazy ideas. As if anyone could get away with blasting the levees.
To learn that it happened not so very long ago, in the 1920's, and how it came to happen, and how the city wouldn't even have flooded if they hadn't blasted the levees, gives me a context to put people's fears in. I can't believe something like that happened as recently as the 1920's, with the approval of government on all levels.
Learning what happened upriver in the Delta during the same flood was also enlightening to me.
I fear I'm somewhat naive. The political stuff outlined in the book didn't surprise me. The other stuff did. A lot.
It's hard to believe that something so devastating, and so relatively recent, was so soon forgotten.
Posted by AuntieMel on July 31, 2006, at 14:24:07
In reply to Re: Rising Tide » AuntieMel, posted by Dinah on July 29, 2006, at 10:33:11
Right. I had the same initial thought - 'what a strange idea - how could anyone think someone would intentionally dynamite the levees'
Until I read later that it had actually happened before.
Hopefully these days with all the on-the-spot reporters no one thinks that they could get away with it again.
I started the one I started - in the flood <pun intended> of Katrina books - because it was written by a history prof at Tulane. I thought maybe it wouldn't be as sensationalized.
It isn't sensationalized - but it isn't especially well written either...
There's a corp of engineering built reservoir a bit upstream of a bayou from me. It was built to keep the bayou from filling up too fast and flooding downtown.
Since it was built (ages ago, before my time) there has been a lot of building up to the west of it, and the homeowners there sometimes complain that they get flooded and the only reason people on my side are protected is because we are "better off." Neither of which is true, exactly.
My reaction - it was there before you were.
Posted by Dinah on August 2, 2006, at 13:20:16
In reply to Re: Rising Tide » Dinah, posted by AuntieMel on July 31, 2006, at 14:24:07
I know. :( Especially if it's an obvious hazard. Like the people who complain because the neighbors have horses, when the neighbors have had horses there for forty years. They didn't notice?
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