The Times-Picayune, whose daily circulation is 270,000, put out only an electronic edition yesterday with a one-word headline summing up the impact of Hurricane Katrina: "Catastrophic". A morning update on the Web site said The Times-Picayune was evacuating its building in New Orleans and that staff members were heading for Houma, a bayou town about 60 miles to the west.
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"My answer has always been that one day something catastrophic will happen and you'll wish you updated your system".
The administration insists we ought to be giving it credit for doing a bit of tinkering at the margins of a catastrophic, decades-old policy failure, but even this updated strategy is riddled with glaring flaws.
According to theoretical models of cortical memory systems (e.g. McClelland et al., 1995), this updating process should occur slowly to avoid catastrophic effects on existing memories.
The first one was online 6 hours after the rupture initiation and the third update was online on March 14, less than 72 hours after this catastrophic earthquake.
Updated at 11.53am GMT 11.29am GMT Lord Patten evidence BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten confirms that he knew about the catastrophic McAlpine Newsnight broadcast before director general George Entwistle, reports Lisa O'Carroll.
Gary Gates, the president and chief executive of the utility, said in a statement in March that the company had updated and "tested and retested" the plan to protect the plant, "in the unlikely event of a catastrophic flood".
Whilst natural disasters have catastrophic potential, the advent of social media means that statutory emergency managers have a source of real time information updates to assist decision making in natural disaster response.
Apocalyptically catastrophic.
A catastrophic, terrible loss.
