[Wonder Warthog]

They did it to themselves???

[rickmichaels]

Bush, Cheney, and Rove personally set bombs under the levees. How do I know? Because a f***ing racist POS psycho...er...um...I mean the Honorable Minister Farrakhan said so.

[Wisconsin]

The Wall Street Journal's narration of events was made early on. It possibly is not correct. See:
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09_13.html#079207

For a later summary.

[listenhillary]

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[PogySailor]

bttt

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[orlop9]

"Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment"

Truer words were never spoken!

[WasDougsLamb]

If you listen to a bunch of black civil rights leaders (Farrakhan, Jesse, etc.), it was everyones fault except what it probably was.

[RippleFire]

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[ex-Texan]

There were reports out of New Orleans that local authorities intentionally blew up a section of the levee to save the French Quarter and homes in wealthy neighborhoods. One must believe the witnesses who were there and heard the blast.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good summary of actions and requirements in LA.

This early story, however, may need updates as more dike/canal breach info is uncovered.

[Amityschild]

I don't understand why the taxpayers (us) should foot the bill to rebuild NO. Rarely is the rest of the Gulf Coast and their complete devestation mentioned. The NO in your face whiners get all the mention.

Now they want 200 BILLION dollars? I suppose we just hand it over to the likes of Blanco and Nagin to manage? Wow, you just know that the corrupt NO politicians are salivating over the WINDFALL.

Is this America?

[Vinnie]

IIRC a freeper's mother told him that she saw and heard the barge hit the canal wall. That was the first report I saw of the incident.

The Army Corp announced and did blow a few levees in several places to let the water out.

[kjam22]

This is as crazy as when people were saying the Clinton administration bombed the Murrah Building.

[Fudd]

From the article: "In an earlier September 2 story the Journal noted that in Louisiana, coastal wetlands provide some shelter from surging seawater, but more than one million acres of coastal wetlands have been lost since 1930 due to development and construction of levees and canals. For every square mile of wetland lost, storm surges rise by one foot.

At 640 acres to the square mile, this means that NOLA was flooded by a 1600-ft tall storm surge....

Or yet another reporter went through public "education".

[Former Dodger]

Good post, WW.

Sometimes Sh%t Happens PING!

It's really interesting how much the MSM doesn't report.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Yep, there it is. Karl Rove's "Barge o' Doom" comes through for the Administration. ;)

[Happy2BMe]

NOLA - KATRINA pings.

(Sit down before you read - NOLA residents resisted Lake Ponchatrain repairs that would have likely prevented the disaster.)

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Vital repairs for which a whopping $600 million had been appropriated by the federal government were stopped after residents of the Ninth Ward complained about the noise created by the repair project and sued to halt it.

[Jess Kitting]

According to Louis Farrakhan, the levees were deliberately destroyed in order to wipe out poor blacks in New Orleans. He said there was supposedly a big crater under one of the levees that could prove his theory.

I couldn't find the link to the article, or I would post it.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Before Hurricane Katrina breached a levee on the New Orleans Industrial Canal, the Army Corps of Engineers had already launched a $748 million construction project at that very location. But the project had nothing to do with flood control. The Corps was building a huge new lock for the canal, an effort to accommodate steadily increasing barge traffic. Except that barge traffic on the canal has been steadily decreasing.

In Katrina's wake, Louisiana politicians and other critics have complained about paltry funding for the Army Corps in general and Louisiana projects in particular. But over the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion; California was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times as large. -- Source

[Mad Dawgg]

"Why New Orleans Flooded"

Easy.

Gravity.

OK next question.