What was the actual hurricane damage in New Orleans ?
 

Weatherlawyer wrote:
Yeechang Lee wrote:

Correct. Remember all the articles from late Monday about people
rejoicing at how the historic portions of the French Quarter,
especially, were relatively undamaged?

No tales of French glee over that. I hear that the United States'
oldest ally were stupified by the degree of damage.

Like the rest of the world was stupified by 15,000+ heat deaths in
France last year?

And I have no
doubt they too are answering the call for help just like they did 200
years ago.

France, and many other nations. May God bless them for it.

What would it have cost to take over the running of the various flood
control centres and run them properly? (Not counting pest control to
remove apes from the Nit House.)

Yeah! Let's get some Louisiana Democrat political leavers in there to
show 'em how it ~should~ be done!

What was the actual hurricane damage in New Orleans ?
 

Bob Harrington wrote:

No tales of French glee over that. I hear that the United States'
oldest ally were stupified by the degree of damage.

Like the rest of the world was stupified by 15,000+ heat deaths in
France last year?

And I have no doubt they too are answering the call for help just
like they did 200 years ago.

I have no idea what the actual facts are but this year the south west
of Europe has suffered devastation from France to southern Spain. I
have not heard stories of the deaths involved.

As with weather perenially, one man's meat is another man's poison.

It is inevitable that when there is a severe hurricane or a super
typhoon, the UK gets what some here view as pleasant weather. It is
usually humid and sunny with some thunderstorms whenever the cyclones
-in the Americas or Asia, touch home.

Personally I could manage without that. It does tend to set up mild
weather overall, though. Long periods of it.

Or is there another explanation for that sort of thing?