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Skriven 2006-09-06 15:31:00 av MIMI GALLANDT (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av JOHN HULL
Ärende: Diebold Strikes Again
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John Hull wrote:

JH>MIMI GALLANDT -> JOHN HULL wrote:
JH> MG> John Hull wrote:

JH> JH>> MIMI GALLANDT -> JOHN HULL wrote:
JH> MG>>> John Hull wrote:

JH> JH>>>> MIMI GALLANDT -> JOHN HULL wrote:
JH> MG>>>>> John Hull wrote:

JH> JH>>>>>> Sean Dennis -> VERN HUMPHREY wrote:
JH> SD>>>>>>> Hello, VERN.

JH> SD>>>>>>> 10 Aug 06 09:01, you wrote to me:

JH> VH>>>>>>>> At least Georgia can lord it over Louisiana -- who
JH> VH>>>>>>>> re-elected Ray Nagin.

JH> SD>>>>>>> Yes, Mr. Chocolate City himself.  I find it rather ironic
JH> SD>>>>>>> that New Orleans is becoming more white and wealthy than a
JH> SD>>>>>>> "chocolate city".  In fact, from what it looks like, New
JH> SD>>>>>>> Orleans is actually going to be about a third or more
JH> SD>>>>>>> smaller in population that it was before Katrina.

JH> JH>>>>>> And with that reduction, you're likely going to see a much
JH> JH>>>>>> better city with a lower crime rate overall.

JH> MG>>>>> When the hurricane was over and the clean up had begun I
JH> MG>>>>> remember hearing people saying that maybe NO shouldn't be
JH> MG>>>>> rebuilt. I wonder if anyone ever said that about San
JH> MG>>>>> Francisco after 1906?


JH> JH>>>> Yes, they did.  That's one of the reasons the city fathers of
JH> JH>>>> SF were so diligent about covering up the true extent of the
JH> JH>>>> damage, the number of people killed, and the fact that they
JH> JH>>>> actually lowered the building code standards to facilitate a
JH> JH>>>> quick rebuild to cover it all up.  They knew that if the
JH> JH>>>> truth got out, SF was a dead duck.

JH> MG>>> I knew about the cover up I just was under the impression it
JH> MG>>> was for a different reason. I used to live in SF when I first
JH> MG>>> left home and when they started building the BART I thought
JH> MG>>> they were crazy because they were running a subway straight
JH> MG>>> down where the fault split in the city in 06. Good thing I'm
JH> MG>>> not an engineer, eh? :)

JH> JH>> There was a recent documentary on the 1906 quake on cable a
JH> JH>> while back.  They said that today, if another quake hit of the
JH> JH>> same magnitude, that the devastation would be far worse.
JH> JH>> Because they let the building codes go to hell, it wasn't until
JH> JH>> the late 70's before they started building really quake proof
JH> JH>> structures.  So, they've got 60 years of block and brick,
JH> JH>> unreinforced sitting over the same fault that lines.  The
JH> JH>> that narrator even showed a bunch of damage was just patched
JH> JH>> that over from the original quake that is still there.  Add in
JH>a lot of the area at the north end of the waterfront pier  MG> area
JH>and mu  JH>> ch of the area west of the waterfront is built on
JH> JH>> reclaimed marshland and landfill from after the first quake.
JH> JH>> Those areas will suffer from severe liquifaction during a major
JH> JH>> quake.  The worst thing, though, is that there are a couple
JH> JH>> million people living there now, instead of a few hundred
JH> JH>> thousand.  It won't be pretty, but it will happen again.

JH> MG> I'll have to keep my eyes open watching for that in the TV
JH> MG> listings, sounds interesting.

JH>If I remember correctly, it was on either the Science Channel or
JH>National Geographic channel, and the title implied something about
JH>the coverup and all that.

JH>I watch so damn many of that type of show it's hard to keep track of
JH>when and which channel I saw something.

I think I may have caught parts of that one (if we're thinking of the 
same show) between cleaning house duties :). Pretty much the only things 
I watch on TV are the History Channel, the Discovery Times channel (I'm 
not thrilled with their "news" pieces but they do a pretty good job on 
history), A&E's true crime shows (American Justice and City 
Confidential) and the Sci Fi channel on Friday nights, however if they 
stop showing SG1 before they start the new season of Battlestar 
Gallactica I'll stop watching TV on friday nights. :)

L'Chaim

Mimi

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