Decade After Katrina, Pointing Finger More Firmly at Army Corps

New York Times ^ | May 23, 2015 | By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and JOHN SCHWARTZ

[Charles Martel]

Don't forget that inconvenient NEPA lawsuit brought against the USACE by Save Our Wetlands, Inc. (et al) back in 1976-77. In short, the Corps of Engineers designed a number of improvements intended to prevent a storm surge from entering Lake Pontchartrain, but the greenies sued to prevent speckled trout from being disenfranchised, or something.

The lefties frown upon mention of this, because blaming an environmental group for *anything* reflects poorly on our political system. After all, trout are people, too.

Would the USACE plans from '76 have prevented all the flooding? Probably not, but it might've reduced it by two-thirds or so. Some blame definitely belongs to the plaintiffs who killed that project.

[MeshugeMikey]

Louis Farraklown probably still believes it was the white mans Bomb.....that damaged the levee... Bomb, not Katrina, broke dikes: Farrakhan Japan Today/October 14, 2005

Washington — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Thursday claimed that explosives, not Hurricane Katrina, broke New Orleans' dikes and flooded poor African American neighborhoods.

"A member of the Army Corps of Engineers saw burn marks on the concrete," Farrakhan told reporters, describing an email he had received.

"They found two types of explosives used by the military," he said, without naming the source, adding that an eight-meter crater had been blown in the dike.

http://culteducation.com/group/1066-nation-of-islam/14756-bomb-not-katrina-broke-dikes-farrakhan.html

[Ingtar]

Odd. The part of the levy that was built and maintained by the Corps held up fine. The parts built by local Dim politicians’ brother in laws and other cronies could never have held up. I am not a big fan of some of what the ACoE does, but the levy failures was much more about bribes and skimming off funding than that.

[Salgak]

. . .but the people living in packing crates will reliably vote “D” anyway, so no NEED to give them perks.

[SunkenCiv]

Nope, it's all BS -- and not by coincidence, this ridiculous family of accusations is being regurgitated by Partisan Media Shills (PMS) at the New York Slimes. Thanks Brad from Tennessee.

[rockrr]

“Lincoln’s fault - when it’s too great to blame Bush”

[Oliviaforever]

And Mr Go.

[aimhigh]

I’m still wondering who was dumb enough to build a city below sea level.

[al baby]

I blame mother nature and mans impotency to truly win against her

[knarf]

STUPIDS !!

It's carl Roves' .. or was it Dubbya's ? .... secret hurricane, weather machine ....

EVERYBODY knows that.

[doorgunner69]

"We don’t need to go nowhere! "

All the while rejecting the fact that they lived below mean water level around them.

[Iron Munro]

The most important lesson to be learned from Katrina has been totally ignored:

Don’t buy, build or rebuild a home, a business or a city on land that is below sea level.

[vetvetdoug]

I lay the fault at the feet of the politicians that handled the money set aside yearly for the maintenance and improvement of the levies all over New Orleans. There is more than enough literature and paper trail proving that the politicians (Democrat and Black) skimmed the money allocated for the levies for over forty years.

[njslim]

incredibly nobody there though of putting flood gates in the canals to prevent water from being forced back up canal
during storm

[logitech]

The Levy Board has always been corrupt. The Corps is just a scapegoat.

[GOPJ]

It’s a democrat city - at the bottom of all of it will be corruption, payoffs and kickbacks.