There's an awful lot of inaccurate information floating around in this thread.
I have yet to see anyone, including the Wall Street Journal, exhibit a completely accurate assessment of the political and legal ramifications, the levee design or its actual performance, or the sequence of storm surge events.
I'm still a day or more away from putting all the the pieces together myself, and that's with the benefit of two weeks or more of 18 hour days, two years of civil, 27 years in the field, several in marine construction, and anyone planning on making any kind of move based on political, design, or performance information contained in this thread is headed for a big fall.
Want one example?
A five hundred foot breach caused by a southbound barge in the Industrial Canal wasn't the largest caused by Katrina.
Not by a factor of 10.
Not by a factor of 100.
I'm not being a smartass here, just trying to save good Freepers from mistakes they'll later regret.
If you all will chill out long enough for me to finish, I'll put good data in your hands by the end of the week at the very latest, I promise.
Put me on your ping list, please.
My husband was just telling me that the Levee Board is said to have mis-spent a lot of money in the past.
We might see the Justice Department get involved and maybe some of these idiots will go to jail.