![[Valid Atom 1.0]](valid-atom.png "Validate my Atom 1.0 feed")
Pos-Hurricane - USA - Katrina Shatters Auto World, Too
Automotive losses underscore the human ones
Pleasant Ridge, Mich, USA -The Car Connection, by Mike Davis- Sept 2005: -- Despite the satellite monitoring which feeds our minute-by-minute weather reports, Hurricane Katrina became hazardous to the Gulf Coast so fast that people and businesses in its path could scarcely act. As in most such catastrophes, the public's and media's focus is first on people, then on destruction of real property and the economy. So the automotive aspects are almost an afterthought... About 100,000 of them in Louisiana alone decided the danger wasn't imminent enough to evacuate or couldn't physically do so... Their vehicles were left behind to swim out the storm, along with others, mostly left behind one or more of the family's other sets of wheels. A lot of the left-behinds were rolled up like wads of used Kleenex... The hurricane thus destroyed tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of vehicles in three strokes: first, those directly impacted by winds or surges of water driven by the winds; second, by falling trees and collapsing buildings including garages, and lastly, especially in New Orleans, by flood waters pouring in after the levees broke. I've seen no media reports, but it seems likely some vehicles and their occupants vanished when countless highway bridges collapsed. These lost vehicles include not only those of private owners, but companies, institutions, governments and automobile dealership inventories...
posted by Unknown @ 4:13 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home