Comments on: Katrina’s Real Name http://elissasmith.ca/archives/2005/08/30/katrinas-real-name/ Act as a personal journal/scrapbook for my life. Be a medium to communicate what I think is important to others. Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:47:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Doug Woodard http://elissasmith.ca/archives/2005/08/30/katrinas-real-name/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Doug Woodard Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:25:15 +0000 /?p=49#comment-44 I think that Ross Gelbspan is probably right but not certainly. The hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas in 1900 killed 6,000 people, 20% of the population. I have read of a Carribean hurricane in the 18th century that destroyed stone buildings. I prefer not to use this line of argument speaking in absolute terms. It is hard to get ordinary people to act on probabilities; if there's a chance they don't have to change and do painful things they often want to take the chance. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario I think that Ross Gelbspan is probably right but not
certainly. The hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas in 1900
killed 6,000 people, 20% of the population. I have read of a Carribean hurricane in the 18th century that destroyed stone buildings. I prefer not to use this line of argument speaking in absolute terms. It is hard to get ordinary people to act on probabilities; if there’s a chance they don’t have to change and do painful things they often want to take the chance.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario

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