New Orleans Repairing Its Levee System by Milota Sidorova

Weather has been always the wild, black horse, too smart to get caught. Its sinister volatility and unpredictability, typical for past few years calls on the red alert. First it was Myanmar tragedy, then the Olympic antilogy victim China, now the world's press is overpowered by the flood cause in the U.S.It seems, that somehow we have got used to hear the death tolls from there and over there.But an interesting reading for one means life strike for another. However it is, it's always good to hear some news about technology progress, method, political movements, or even a system of measuring enabling to protect people in advance.Last news from New Orleans, Louisiana refers that the city Congress fell into rescue aid system, giving the local research center, Corps of Engineers almost $5,7 billion. Indeed, it was New Orleans wasted terrific hurricane Katrina in 2005. People haven't forgot about it. Now, when American middle West suffers from the floods, forced to evacuate thousands of homes, New Orleans speeds up repairing its levees barriers. According to last technical reports, the previous one is on many places 'out of work', simplt too low, too fragile to handle a storm of category 2-3. The center has focused all its energy into new Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, that should measure and predict the storm menace even more correctly. System, located on moving vehicles skews different factors from topography, storm's wind speed, size and intensity. The center believes that it will supply current anti-flood orders and define safe levee height, able to stop the weather spouts. But even after completing system, there will be always risk of failures. Congress declared that the protection levee system should be finished in 2011. This time it won't accept the corps's break downs such as levee breachers, that caused the main devastation during Katrina.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080616/ap_on_re_us/hurricanes_levees;_ylt=AgM0peNRMFRNu2yC4ELXGSSs0NUE

by Milota Sidorova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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