{"id":464,"date":"2007-06-29T13:51:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T18:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=464"},"modified":"2007-06-29T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T18:51:33","slug":"group-shows-fema-anticipated-katrinas-destruction-of-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/group-shows-fema-anticipated-katrinas-destruction-of-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Group shows FEMA anticipated Katrina&#8217;s destruction of New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/katrinaleveebreach.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-464];player=img;\"  onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/katrinaleveebreach.jpg','popup','width=191,height=215,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/katrinaleveebreach-tm.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"266\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Katrinaleveebreach\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/Group_shows_FEMA_anticipated_Katrinas_destruction_0627.html\" >The Raw Story | Group shows FEMA anticipated Katrina&#8217;s destruction of New Orleans<\/a>:<br \/>\nA major report published Wednesday by a Washington, DC-based watchdog shows that the Federal Emergency Management Agency anticipated the destruction that would result from a major hurricane striking New Orleans, yet failed to follow through on its own internal warnings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;FEMA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s disaster planning was based on a set of predictions that proved to be remarkably accurate. In 2000-2001, FEMA looked at a population of New Orleans that was over 1.3 million people and predicted that when a catastrophic hurricane struck, the city would be flooded with 14-17 feet of water. One million people would evacuate and 250-350,000 people would be trapped in the city,&#8221; according to the report, The Best Laid Plans: The Story of How the Government Ignored Its Own Gulf Coast Hurricane Plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raw Story | Group shows FEMA anticipated Katrina&#8217;s destruction of New Orleans: A major report published Wednesday by a Washington, DC-based watchdog shows that the Federal Emergency Management Agency anticipated the destruction that would result from a major hurricane striking New Orleans, yet failed to follow through on its own internal warnings. &#8220;FEMA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s disaster &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/group-shows-fema-anticipated-katrinas-destruction-of-new-orleans\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Group shows FEMA anticipated Katrina&#8217;s destruction of New Orleans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-7u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}