Bringing the Point Home

[anastasiav]

Compare the area of the New Orleans Flood to Your City:

Portland, ME

Boston

Montreal

Hartford

New York - yikes

Comments

[zen-thug.livejournal.com]

it appears that they calculate the square acreage of flood damage in New Orleans (that map seems geographically reasonable). And then drew a circular overlay with that same volume, just to give some minor idea of how much ground area would be flooded.

Obviously Witchita would have more area underwater than Denver. The kind of software and time it would take to write a webpage that allows you to arbitrarily enter any city and get a topo accurate flood image is just silly.

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

It may well be, but I think the point is that scaring people with stuff that's not going to happen is not a great idea. There are enough bad things in the world that can happen that I don't think we really need to load ourselves up with extra boogeymen.

[zen-thug.livejournal.com]

A little critical thinking on the part of any viewer will quickly show that there is little to fear from widespread circular floods. ;)

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

True. But a little critical thinking on the part of any voter would quickly show that George W. wasn't competent to be President.

And yet ...