Posted on 09/20/2005 11:38:42 PM PDT by CobaltBlue
Louisiana's top hurricane experts have rejected the official explanations for the floodwall collapses that inundated much of New Orleans, concluding that Hurricane Katrina's storm surges were much smaller than authorities have suggested and that the city's flood- protection system should have kept most of the city dry.
With the help of computer models and visual evidence, scientists at Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center have concluded that Katrina's surges did not come close to overtopping those barriers.
* * * * Ivor van Heerden, the Hurricane Center's deputy director, said the real scandal of Katrina is the "catastrophic structural failure" of barriers that should have handled the hurricane with relative ease.
"We are absolutely convinced that those floodwalls were never overtopped," said van Heerden. * * * * Tuesday, researchers showed numerous indications that Katrina's surge was not as tall as the lakefront's protections. They showed a "debris line" that indicates the top height of Katrina's waves was at least four feet below the crest of Lake Pontchartrain's levees. They also pointed out how the breached floodwalls near the lake showed no signs of overtopping -- no splattering of mud, no drip lines and no erosion at their bases. They contended that the pattern of destruction behind the breaches was consistent with a localized "pressure burst," rather than widespread overtopping.
Their model indicates that most of the surge around the lake and its nearby canals was less than 11 feet above sea level, and that none of it should have been greater than 13 feet. The Army Corps's flood-protection system for New Orleans was designed to handle surges of more than 14 feet above sea level.
"This should not have been a big deal for these floodwalls," said oceanographer G. Paul Kemp. There's no way this should have exceeded the capacity."
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That's just one canal.
LOL..........you do realize that the people on this forum that are reading that tripe aren't as intellectually challenged as your clients are, right?
FGS, you're THE problem, not the solution!
Hearty Bump Dennis...lol
I bet the guy driving that car never made it.
Its the ONLY one with Levee breaches.
I said right up front why I'm not a court reporter anymore.
I couldn't stand being in the courtroom one more minute with pompous fools like you have presented yourself to be on this thread.
There's a thread I saw the other day, I thought proved the subsidize was so severe the levee's were only 6.6', not due to poorly constructed levees.
LOL--I'd missed that :-). Good call.
I'll clean my screen AFTER I get up and tend to my carpet burns!
ROTFLMAO!!!
Because I'm giving it away. :)
Just be sure that you use it wisely. Lawyer and politicians only, please.
Well, I doubt very much that you're missed.
Some babble on some blog somewhere indicated that you could see someone slumped over the wheel in one of the CNN helicopter shots but they took it off the air.
The car looks undamaged. Anyone in there probably has a car full of dirty laundry.
I don't think Cobalt should start spending that "award" just yet.
If this turns out like 9-11, it will be the end of time before they decide whether it was one event (hurricane) or two events (hurricane & levees).
Gosh, perhaps the 5th would be prudent, eh? ; )
Plaintiff lawyers don't make a cent if the client doesn't get paid first.
Investigations don't get money for the injured people.
If you mean by people like you who take pride in "gaming" the system, I'd consider that a badge of honor.
Oh, I see why you quit being a court reporter. You really wish you were a lawyer! Delusions of grandeur.
That's not the point and I know you're more than smart enough to know that.
Your doubtful mind doesn't show an impressive mindset to the courts does it?
Howlin is proved to be doubtless in this domain of discussion and is well respected by many!
How can you possibly torment yourself this way, CobaltBlue, when no fee is in the taking to compensate for the torment?
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