Progress Is Seen on Flooding and Crime in New Orleans - New York Times: "Louisiana officials, commenting on the environmental aspects ofthe hurricane's aftermath, said that 140,000 to 160,000 homes had been submerged or destroyed; 60 to 90 million tons of solid waste must be cleaned up; and 530 sewage treatment plants were inoperable. They warned that it would take years to fully restore clean drinking water.
Two developments were encouraging: a pair of major oil spills were declared under control, with one of them drifting out into the Gulf of Mexico and away from the state's ravaged coastline, and 170 sources of radiation, ranging from hospitals to pipe-welding plants, have been secured, the officials said."
Wow all the comfort enabling technologies we have are so precariously poised. It can be so quicly turned against us. All the doomsday movies arent very far from truth are they ?
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