[lbo-talk] the other great flooding of 2005

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 13:41:54 PDT 2005


On Sunday, September 04, 2005 9:47 AM [PDT], Autoplectic <autoplectic at gmail.com> wrote:


> <http://www.flonnet.com/fl2217/stories/20050826006000400.htm>
>
> High water and hell
>
> ANUPAMA KATAKAM
> LYLA BAVADAM
> DIONNE BUNSHA
> in Mumbai
>

I had a writeup on that all prepped.

The lead looked like this:

Subject: More flooding...

Twelve (12) hits, eleven relevant, all pre-incident, on google news with the 1st link a Katrina-related story. http://news.google.com/news?q=Ganges+flood

13,600 hits... http://news.google.com/news?q=new%20orleans%20flood

Didja know that Fats Domino is OK? http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3398090a1860,00.html

BBC NEWS: 2005/09/03

Villages hit by breach in Ganges By Subir Bhaumik BBC News, Calcutta

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4211978.stm

The Ganges river has joined with a tributary in the Indian state of West Bengal, inundating a large area of land, officials say.

Leigh www.leighm.net



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