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The key passage here: "Estimates have been made of tens of thousands of deaths from flooding that could overrun the levees and turn New Orleans into a 30-foot-deep toxic lake filled with chemicals and petroleum from refineries, and waste from ruined septic systems."
That italicized part gets run almost verbatim every so often. Anyone surprised by this possibility, especially after last year's hurricane bonanza, doesn't pay attention to history. Kind of a natural-disaster version of how articles would toss in throwaway lines about a massive terrorist attack in the 1990s.
What's never said afterwards, however, is what the plan would be to remedy that 30-foot-deep toxic lake. Is there one? Or will this be a panic attack that will have enviornmental (and oil distribution) consequences for years or decades to come?
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