Leistung

Hurricaine Katrina

To user Leistung. this is clearly not another example of Americans crying wolf and aparently the hurricaine was not very widely reported were you are. You claerly are not familiar with the risks of a hurricaine hitting New Orleans, this has not happened since 1969 and New Oleans lies below sea level, is very vulnerable to flooding and the levees and damns in New Orleans are not expected to withstand the predicted surge and when all is said and done it will most likely be the costliest storm in U.S. history with some estimates that damage could cost as much as 100 billion USD. You also are not well informed as no one in the United States expected the wind to be the problem it is the flooding in the aftermath that is supposed to do damage. The tsunami got weeks worth of coverage in America non-stop and the floods in europe did get significant coverage in the U.S. And as to why more people died in the floods there, ummmm maybe because enough was not done to evacuate. And many predictions with the hurricaine are that more people will be killed than in your floods. You clearly have never been through a hurricaine or significant storm and have no idea what the hell you are talking about. Mac Domhnaill 16:00, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

In case you do not understand mph: 160 mph = 257.49504 kph. Google Calculator AySz88^-^ 17:15, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

As per your comments about the European floods, so far 42-43 are confirmed dead. 62 are known to be dead already from this hurricane and they haven't started counting in many places. New Orleans is below sea level; if Katrina had been stronger and a little closer, the city would be under 4-9 meters of water right now, and the people waiting for rescuers on their rooftops would have been washed away. If only 5 Americans are killed by Hurricane Katrina for every 1 European killed by flooding, things will have gone well. Educate yourself [1] a little before replying. 24.34.190.187 10:33, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Your comments were completely false as over 100 people are estimated to be dead and the nearly the entire city of New orleans is destroyed or under water, as are many other costal towns and the flooding continues as the levees break.Mac Domhnaill 22:39, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

The part I was refering to was New Orleans. There has been no people to date killed direcly by the Hurricane there. Sure there has been people killed in Harrison, but they do not seem to react in the same way New Orleans does. The European flooding is not getting anything like the attention on Wiki.

Leistung 10:08, 31 August 2005 (CET)

I've never removed anything because it was "Un-American". It's not relevant to improving the article. If you'd like to see an example of an argument I got into that was correctly removed, see [2] and scroll down to the oddly named section, Peices (sp?) of cow dung not literally speaking (!) Evercat 12:28, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

At any rate, it's hard to believe you're sincere. Fancy evacuating a whole million people. Losing a day's pay over nothing!, you said. Half the city is now underwater! Yet you continue to say that people should have stayed where they were? Evercat 12:51, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

You obviously haven't lived in Scotland for long.

Only 24 years.

There is plenty of flooding there.

Not on this scale.

And the winds are high.

Um, not quite category 4 hurricane strength. Evercat 13:27, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

You have got to be kidding. How can you tell me no one has died in New Orleans, if you were paying atention you would know that there have been hundreds of bodies floating in the streets, most of the city is completely destroyed and the water keeps comming. The mayor has just ordered the remaining 30,000 people in New Orleans to evacuate.And hurricanes do not come and go in that area all the time the last major one to hit New Orleans was in 1969, and since then they have not experience one. Mac Domhnaill 18:37, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

"The part I was refering to was New Orleans. There has been no people to date killed direcly by the Hurricane there. Sure there has been people killed in Harrison, but they do not seem to react in the same way New Orleans does. The European flooding is not getting anything like the attention on Wiki."

Possibly because 200+ are dying from this hurricane and all's you talk about is how Europe is not getting attetion. I guarantee you, there are European people working on the flooding issue. There are more American members on the English Wikipedia, and you'll just have to accept that. And I'm sorry that no one likes your buddy Hitler. Probably because he ordered the deaths of innocent people who didn't deserve to be killed or tortured. --CFIF 11:22, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

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These were my first baby steps on WP. I then changed my name to Wallie, as this was a non English name. Wallie 07:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

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