Yeah I thought those Boy Scouts in western Iowa really had it coming. --- On Mon, 9/1/08, authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Perspective Concerning Natural Disasters To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 10:07 AM --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To All: > > The Shrimad Bhagavatam states that natural disasters are due to > a demon being born in the area. In modern parlance, it would > mean that the residents in the area may be doing something wrong > in term of karma that is causing the disaster to occur. So, > what have the residents of New Orleans done to deserve another > hurricane to come along? It looks as though the main effect of Gustav will be felt well west of New Orleans; and in any case, it's weakening as it nears the coast. The thing is, the vulnerability of people living along the Gulf Coast to devastation from hurricanes is largely due to bad decisions *not made by them*. The folks most likely to be hurt are not those responsible for the birth of the "demon." >From an AP article: Gustav on track to become Cajun country's Katrina By CAIN BURDEAU HOUMA, La. (AP) — In the low-lying Cajun country west of New Orleans, where levees are largely nonexistent and the sea has been nibbling away the land for years, the looming threat of Hurricane Gustav has inspired a pervasive sense of dread.... It's an area already at the brink of catastrophe. For most of the past half century, the bayou communities that thrived in the Barataria basin have watched their land literally disappear. A combination of factors — oil drilling, hurricanes, river levees, damming of rivers — have destroyed marshes and swamps that once flourished in this river delta. Entire towns in this basin of the Mississippi delta have disappeared because of land loss. The rates of loss are among the highest in the world. The U.S. Geological Survey says about 900 square miles of coastal land has disappeared since the 1950s and that has left the area with virtually no natural buffer. Besides the loss of land, the people here are largely without levees. A federal levee plan to protect Houma and the surrounding towns has never gotten off the ground. Meanwhile, most of Houma is protected by drainage levees about 10 feet tall. Gustav's storm surge is expected to be more than 10 feet high and could overwhelm the city's protection. "Houma is just sitting there naked," said Roy Dokka, a geologist with LSU who's conducted a recent survey of levee heights in southeastern Louisiana. "People do not realize how bad it could be."... http://ap.google. com/article/ ALeqM5hx1QkzU29D phOMZ5KyxbnId5cb FAD92TSOA O0 http://tinyurl. com/6xxcln
