THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PREDICTED NEW ORLEANS DISASTER | 2005-09-08

– National Geographic Predicted New Orleans Disaster

There was an article in National Geographic last year which would give you cold chills to read now. It a feature article about the disappearing coastline of south Louisiana.

But if you read one paragraph, as I said, your blood runs cold. It talks about the nightmare storm for New Orleans. It talks about a hurricane coming in at force three, graduating to four and then five.

That is PRECISELY what happened.

There was a full-page picture of smiling business owner in the French Quarter holding a stick high over his head, almost to the top of his building. The stick showed how high the water would go if this happened.

I doubt he is smiling now.