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Ray Nagin,, "looks like they should have used a darker chocolata for the levee foundation."
Water flows into New Orleans through a breech of the17th Street canal levee shown in this undated aerial photo provided by the Army Corps of Engineers. A foundation problem _ although not the one targeted by earlier studies _ caused the 450-foot-long break in a floodwall and levee on New Orleans' western edge when Hurricane Katrina hit, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Friday March 10, 2006. (AP Photo/Army Corps of Engineers, HO)
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Now, why in the world couldn't the President have foreseen this?
According to Brother Farakan da Joooos AKA White Devils blew up da levee.
I'm shocked, according to Farrakhan it was supposed to have been caused by explosives.
Shovelling sh*t against the tide.
The final report is due June 1.
Spitting against the wind?
L
"The 17th Street Canal and two others that broke during and after Hurricane Katrina will be cut off at the mouth by new floodgates if a hurricane approaches this year, to keep high water in Lake Pontchartrain from stressing their levees and floodwalls."
If these floodgates had been there in the first place, as they should, New Orleans would have been spared the brunt of this disaster. I'm still trying to find out why the flood gates were not built. It was the Corps' responsibility. They are now trying to blame the environmentalists. No one has been assigned responsibility yet. Until that happens, New Orleans will continue its free fall into insignificance.
More levee failure mode reports. Pinging you before I even read the thing, apologies in advance if it's a report with shallow engineering-based assertions.
What this report means is that the levees cannot simply be repaired at the breaks.
The entire system will have to be redone. What is the cost for that in today's dollars?
FYI, I heard on NBC yesterday? the FBI has determined criminial negligence? on levee administration with contracts and with nepotism.
We shouldn't rebuild buildings in these flooded areas again, unless we are willing to pay the billions now and the additional billions again later when another overlooked "problem" comes to fruition - as it surely will!