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Monsoons, flooding and landslides, oh my! El Paso's finally an official Disaster Area
President Bush finally declared El Paso County a disaster area, more than two weeks after major flooding hit his home state. The border city was hit with 15 inches of rain in the span of a week (including seven inches in one day), nearly twice the annual precipitation. Including in neighboring Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, more than 5,000 homes have been damaged and preliminary estimates put the damage at more than $100 million.
Flash flood warnings are still in effect and the Army Corps of Engineers has said that an aging earthen dam holding back 6 million gallons of water from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, could flood El Paso in as little as three minutes. Mayor John Cook told the El Paso Times, it would be "like a tidal wave hitting downtown El Paso."
Two years ago John Walton, a hydrologist at UTEP, tried to get the city, the Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA to do something about the rapid development in arroyos and the resulting poor drainage systems in the city, telling top officials, "failure to address these issues could lead to flooding of homes and businesses during a large storm event." His pleas were ignored.
Posted by Elizabeth Gettelman on 08/17/06 at 10:53 AM | E-mail | Print | Digg | de.licio.us | Reddit | Newsvine | Yahoo! MyWeb | StumbleUpon | Netscape | Google |
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I am told in "Mother Jones" magazine, article "Chronicle of a War Foretold" that I may go your website to see an expanded version of the article---which I cannot fine???????
Posted by: Ken Gordon on 08/19/06 at 10:07 AM
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And so what we have is shades of Katrina but this time in Bush country. And the hydrologist warned them just as Bush&Co were warned well ahead of time about the possibility of a Katrina type disaster in NO.
Well if nothing else Bush is consistent in his stupidity.
This time it happened in Texas so all the rabid Texans who support Bush got a taste of their own stupidity.
Wake up Texans kick this ass out of government. You who are among the most responsible for putting him in the WH have the most responsibility for getting him out of same.
So what is so christian about dubya now.
Posted by: Bob DAmico on 08/19/06 at 7:14 AM