Karen Politte
EF5
The world reacts to the Katrina disaster:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/02/katr...orld/index.html
Someone brought up the comparison between the Netherland and the New Orleans situation today - and I thought it would be really quite interesting to expand on that.
As a child, our class organized its annual Geography field trip to The Netherlands - to visit Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the huge country of reclaimed sea land that these cities inhabit.
We also visited the coastline, and I particularly remember paying a visit to the famed "Delta Works". I don't recall all the details - but as a child I just remember standing next to huge leviathans of concrete, steel and hydraulics. Totally overpowering. It made our class look like a colony of ants.
The Netherlands Delta Works
The Delta Works/The Netherlands Flood informational website:
http://www.delta2003.nl/index.php?url=/del...awerken/&lng=en
Researching subjects such as this makes me remember just why I was so interested in the subject of Geography at school.
KR
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/02/katr...orld/index.html
In the Netherlands, much of which lies below sea level as in New Orleans, there was some consternation that the Louisiana city was so poorly prepared, AP reported.
The nation installed massive hydraulic sea walls known as the Delta Works after devastating floods in 1953.
"I don't want to sound overly critical, but it's hard to imagine that [the damage caused by Katrina] could happen in a Western country," Ted Sluijter, press spokesman for Neeltje Jans, the public park where the Delta Works are exhibited, was reported as saying by AP.
"It seemed like plans for protection and evacuation weren't really in place, and once it happened, the coordination" was poor.
Someone brought up the comparison between the Netherland and the New Orleans situation today - and I thought it would be really quite interesting to expand on that.
As a child, our class organized its annual Geography field trip to The Netherlands - to visit Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the huge country of reclaimed sea land that these cities inhabit.
We also visited the coastline, and I particularly remember paying a visit to the famed "Delta Works". I don't recall all the details - but as a child I just remember standing next to huge leviathans of concrete, steel and hydraulics. Totally overpowering. It made our class look like a colony of ants.
The Netherlands Delta Works
The Delta Works/The Netherlands Flood informational website:
http://www.delta2003.nl/index.php?url=/del...awerken/&lng=en
Researching subjects such as this makes me remember just why I was so interested in the subject of Geography at school.
KR