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Old 11-04-2012, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by DaTruth View Post
New Orleans after Katrina isn't a very good measuring stick. It was hard to get things up and running there when most of the city remained under water for more than a week.
And sections of NO still aren't up and running, seven years later. Do you think Howard Beach or Staten Island are still going to be a mess, seven years later? I don't.

It was a f*cking tragedy. But the city is doing an extraordinarily good job recovering from it. And part of it is that the city did a good job preparing for it. It could have been so, so, much worse than what it was.
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