Coming To Your Neighborhood: A Bush Disaster
9th Sep 2005, 21:18 GMT
Could the Big Apple ever get turned into a crumb pie by a hurricane? A major hurricane made a direct hit on Manhattan in 1821. Everything south of Canal Street was flooded, but because the storm struck at low tide, its devastation was not what it might have been. Then on August 25, 1893, a powerful hurricane struck the city again. A pig-shaped piece of land called Hog Island, which had been developed with saloons and bathhouses and frequented by political bosses and business elite ceased to exist. The Met Life skyscraper on Madison Ave. was left a ruin. A 30-foot storm surge levelled most of the buildings in southern Brooklyn and Queens. A follow-up storm in 1938 packed 183-mile-per-hour winds that mainly impacted Long Island, not nearly so developed then as now. The upshot of this is that while New York City is not frequently struck by hurricanes, it nonetheless is in a zone where hurricanes do sometimes hit with their full furies. If we don't hold Bush responsible for the failures related to Katrina now, who will even be left to do what he and his lackeys fatuously and deceitfully call "play the blame game" when the next mismanaged disaster unnecessarily leaves property ruined and countless dead? The wind that we need to blow is the one that sweeps away those politicians who suck so badly. (By Scott Rose)
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