If Katrina happened in Europe...
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In 2003 - 15.000 to 50.000 elderly died in France due to heat wave. No communication was broken, no road was blocked, no city was evacuated and France has one of the largest goverment in the world. Tomaž
Tomaž Štih wrote: 15.000 to 50.000 15,000 (15k) or 15.000 (fiveteen guys)?
-prakash
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The actual problem is that it took several days to measure and get aware of the problem. It has nothing to see with anybody willingness to solve the problem or not. Helicopters, army men, communications and roads were of no use. Asking people to watch over their elderly people was actually the only thing that can and is done. Anyway, I think that the US did better that any country in the world could have except may be for foreseing and preparing for such an event. I heard that new Orlean plan in case of evacuation was completely rubish. Also rebuilding the city at the same place (i.e. still under sea level) is not a smart idea to me.
François Gasnier wrote: The actual problem is that it took several days to measure and get aware of the problem utterly untrue. everybody except the people in charge of the federal response knew what would happen if a large hurricane hit NO. that's why they opened the Superdome. that's why they had mandatory evacuations. that's why the national guard was ready to go days before the hurricane even hit. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker -- modified at 18:54 Sunday 18th September, 2005
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François Gasnier wrote: The actual problem is that it took several days to measure and get aware of the problem utterly untrue. everybody except the people in charge of the federal response knew what would happen if a large hurricane hit NO. that's why they opened the Superdome. that's why they had mandatory evacuations. that's why the national guard was ready to go days before the hurricane even hit. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker -- modified at 18:54 Sunday 18th September, 2005
pssst, Francois was talking about the European heatwave, not Katrina... :) regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and WebTwoZero. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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In 2003 - 15.000 to 50.000 elderly died in France due to heat wave. No communication was broken, no road was blocked, no city was evacuated and France has one of the largest goverment in the world. Tomaž
Most of the victims from the heat wave in France were located in _private_old people's homes. Another success of the capitalist search for greed.
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In 2003 - 15.000 to 50.000 elderly died in France due to heat wave. No communication was broken, no road was blocked, no city was evacuated and France has one of the largest goverment in the world. Tomaž