Posted on 09/14/2005 4:39:47 PM PDT by jeffers
Which one is the levee that Rove dynamited?
/sar.
They deserve answers.
the wonders of modern technology...Blanko lied as NO sank.
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satchmodog9 wrote:
" don't know. I think Blanco and the media have already assigned blame for the levies on the
administration and the Corps. Any further blame will still be shifted that way."
Blanco's a state governor.
She's not the Speaker of the House, nor the Senate Majority Leader, nor does her party control either house.
The facts will be heard.
Good report, Jeffers... now to get someone to ask the same questions.
Interesting data. If it helps any, I remember before the storm there were many experts interviewed about the seawall levee system. Many said that some of the seawalls had sunken, and their original heights were no longer reliable measures of protection.
self ping...
Semper911 wrote:
"Interesting data. If it helps any, I remember before the storm there were many experts interviewed about
the seawall levee system. Many said that some of the seawalls had sunken, and their original heights were
no longer reliable measures of protection."
My software shows levees that are supposed to be 17 feet tall, being as low as 6.6 feet above sea level in some of the areas I noted.
You can't even miss that much subsidence from the air or hiking along the tops.
Binary solution set.
NASA screwed the pooch, or else somebody was asleep at the switch.
For a minimum of six years.
Arizona Carolyn wrote:
"Good report, Jeffers... now to get someone to ask the same questions."
I can't do much for the TP article, or the levee map from the same source, but as for my work, consider it public domain.
Ping your friends, tell them to ping theirs, ping the media, run with it.
Some folks down south need a wake-up call.
Yeah, I see what you mean. I was just recalling those talking heads saying that they were supposed to be 17 feet high, but that there had been settlement and they were no longer that high.
You would know better than I how long it takes for a seawall to "settle" more than 10 feet.
How about a little primer on how the politics work as far as maintaining the levees. Is it a state responsibility to inform the Corps of Engineers of these problems? My initial impression is that it's a Corps function and any blame for not reporting the poor state of these levees would fall to them.
I'm looking forward to you disabusing me of that notion.
-bttt--
It's too bad this thread died. i think you're on to something.
Great post, Jeffers.
The Disappearing Levee PING!
I have read that parts of the levee are 100% earthworks, while other parts have lower earthworks with a concrete wall at the peak.
Given the resolution of the photos, would a much thinner concrete wall show up, or would it disappear because it's so much thinner than earthworks?
Do the areas with concrete tops correspond to the missing areas on the map?
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