New Orleans Levee Failure Assessment

[jeffers]

Ping.

[Cboldt]

* bump *

Thank you for the ping.

[jeffers]

Any time. If you see anything else on the subject, I'd appreciate a ping too.

[jmaroneps37]

This is exactly what you knew would come out. The new media will blow away the old ratmedia on this issue.
"Excellent work" seems pale to say. This is magnificent!
Thank you

[Coop]

Okay, enough with your silly opinion. I want some data to back it up!!

:-) Well done. I'll need more time to read through all this research.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Bookmarked>

Fantastic summary!

Earlier links?

[Txslady]

bookmark

[don-o]

mark

[syriacus]

What an astounding amount of information. Many thanks for the ping, jeffers! Bookmarked.

[Cboldt]

Earlier links?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1482715/posts?page=40#40 <- jeffers: sequence
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1486492/posts?page=20#20 <- jeffers: failure mode
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1484668/posts <- jeffers: sinking levee

[AdmSmith]

Well done, thanks for the time you put into this.

[Robert A Cook PE]

My dad, a longtime civil/structural engineer, wants to write about New Orleans (in particular) and seawall/hurricane protection and damage in general. Can he contact you about your reserach?

[frankjr]

wow. i still need to go through it all, but it wouold take any government commission about a year and $10MM to pull the same thing togethter.

[BlessedBeGod]

Awesome, and a tremendous amount of work. Thank you!

Bookmarked!!!!!!

[Ros42]

Fantastic job, thank you!

[syriacus]

Just now going through some of the links. I'm struck by the severity of the damage...much worse than I imagined from reading MSM reports.

[jeffers]

I'd be interested in talking with him, but it'll be easier to focus after Rita comes ashore. Either you or he can Freepmail me here.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

1. Many or most failed sections were subjected to a storm surge far beyond their original design specifications.
2. Both Parish areas flooded from multiple levee breaches, from different directions, and at different times.
3. Many levee segments failed in multiple directions at different times during the storm's passage.
4. Notably absent are significant failures along the Intercoastal Waterway between the two Parish areas. Funneling did not result in levee failures in this area.

Outstanding! We have been subject to a tremendous barrage of bandwidth - Broadcast journalism, cable journalism, newsprint - but it is all focused on the moment, RIGHT NOW.

It doesn't really take much bandwidth to give the big picture, does it?!

[Cboldt]

Just now going through some of the links. I'm struck by the severity of the damage...much worse than I imagined from reading MSM reports.

Most breaches did not affect the "city of NOLA," and therefore are absent from media reports.

Only 5 breaches talked about as having flooded the city, and the media still hasn't presented a coherent summary of those facts. This is also the first review I've seen that shows and describes the impact on river levees.