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GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: So we'll
gut through the PC bullcrap here in just a second but first
let me take you back from where we were. I want to play some
audio. Stu, this was from September 2004. This is a year
before Katrina, and I believe we were looking at Hurricane
Ivan at the time, and Ivan, one of the tracks put it into
New Orleans and so we started doing our research and looking
into everything and I said at the time that the most unsafe
city in America, the most likely for destruction was New
Orleans, because of the petrochemical plants that were down
there and because of a Category 5 hurricane. This is what I
said a year before Katrina: New Orleans is below sea level.
New Orleans has the levees all the way around it. It had a
big flood, I think in the year 1900 and killed thousands of
people, and everybody has always thought that the
Mississippi River was going to be the reason why New Orleans
was wiped out because it would have a big flood and people
would die and blah, blah, blah. The real danger according to
most scientists is a Category 5 hurricane. A Category 5
hurricane, scientists say -- and it has never been a case
of, well, maybe this will happen, maybe it won't. It was
"When will this happen."
A Category 5
hurricane will erase New Orleans from the map of the United
States. The entire city will be gone."
Okay. Now at the time I explained how bad the situation was.
I explained. Remember hurricane Category 5 did not happen.
It was between a Category 2 and 3 that hit. They were faulty
levee, it was just, it was a nightmare because of political
corruption and everything else. Nobody wanted to pay
attention to it. And this is how bad they believe things
will be on a Category 5 hurricane in New Orleans. This is
the one step that they have taken. Listen to this: "A
Category 5's not going to just take down the street signs.
It's going to bury the city in water. You will not be able
to see the buildings underwater. So they had to map the
entire city of New Orleans with GPS, so you could get into a
boat and say, okay, beneath me is this building." .
That's how bad it is. They've mapped it with GPS long
before, you know, Google was doing it, to make sure they
knew exactly where everything was. Now, here's the last
piece of information a year before Katrina hit. Listen --
oh, there's two more? I don't know what the next one is. Go
ahead and play the next one: " So they have the Mississippi
on one side, huge lake on the other side. If a Category 5
would hit, the problem is not keeping the water out. It's
getting the water out because the levees were built to keep
the water out of the city. Once the water is in the city,
there's no way to get it out. It becomes a giant bowl." Any
of this sound familiar?
Any of this sound familiar? I remember people calling up
saying, oh, why are you trying to scare people? Why are you
doing all this? You're trying to scare people. No, not
trying to scare people. You know, not a -- I'm not a
psychic, I'm not a fearmonger. I'm just a guy who engages my
brain in common sense and looks at the things that nobody
wants to look at. You don't want to look at it? That's fine.
All of the proof is out there, all of the scientific studies
are out there. All of the speculation is out there. The odds
are a Category 5 hurricane will hit New Orleans. The odds
are one in six. I don't know about you, but I ain't betting
my house or my life when the odds are one in six, and that's
exactly what we're asking people to do. Remember this wasn't
it. This wasn't the big one.
Okay. Now here's the last clip. Remember, geared in common
sense -- that's all this show is -- just geared in common
sense, what was my conclusion as Ivan was meandering around
in the gulf and it looked like it could hit New Orleans. As
Ivan was sitting around there and hovering back and forth,
what was the conclusion, a guy who isn't in emergency
services, has nothing to do with weather, has nothing to do
with, you know, corps of civil engineers. I've got no
experience in anything. I'm an alcoholic clown. 2004 what
did I say? "Now, I've got to believe that -- I mean, I'm
looking at the tracking, and it could hit, this hurricane
could hit New Orleans. I've got to believe that if this
information is true from the university of Louisiana, if
this stuff is true, you'd be evacuating the city pretty darn
quickly very soon."
Yeah, Ray Nagin didn't, when they knew the tracking was
setting it right to New Orleans a year later, they didn't
evacuate quickly, you've got to get out. You've got to
evacuate the city. He waited and waited and waited. I'm an
alcoholic clown. Again it goes back just to common sense.
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