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Title: An astounding prophesy Post by: k4kyv on September 11, 2005, 01:34:46 PM Quote But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however—the car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw a party. That could have been taken verbatim out of a recent newspaper article from anywhere in the world. But it was published in October, 2004. Maybe it isn't so astounding after all. It has long been known not a to be a matter of if, but when. Gone With the Water (http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/index.html) |