Once again..living below sea level with water on three sides....not good.
I saw the title Leaky and I thought it was going to be an article about democrat senator Patrick “Leaky” Leahy.
We sure are going to great lengths to preserve a place where we go to drink and misbehave.
So, how long before this is mentioned in an Obama speech?
Carl Rove screwed up this time. It wasn’t supposed to leak until the next hurricane hit New Orleans. No wonder he resigned.
Blow all the levies, and build on whatever remains above water..
If ever a city wasn’t meant to be where it is.....it is New Orleans...
The “risks” presented by Global Warming, makes New Orleans even less likely to survive....
We’re literally pouring money into a hole in the Gulf....
I’m reminded of the passage from David Brin’s “Earth”: Can you hear the Atchafalaya calling, Mississippi?
$100,000,000 / 2,000 = $50,000 for each soil boring. Sound like some contractor is making a killing off the project. Taking a soil boring is not much different than drilling a water well, except you don't have to drill as deep for a boring.
Sounds like a great use of tax dollars in the chocolate city.
The Army Corps of Engineers has spent about $4 billion so far of the $14 billion set aside by Congress...of your tax money to piss away!
Mother Nature says...forget about it! Just move ‘em out and screw the levees!
And there goes the other shoe dropping. Anyone surprised? Anyone?
Whatever the case... we Texans are all full up with Katrina evacuees. Time for some “progressive” west or east coast liberal city to take their share of the liberal plantation that they created.
This has some factual errors. Actually the failures for the London and 17th St canals were seawalls and not levees. Anyway, this is why the ACE erected flood gates/pumping stations on all of the canals that empty into Lake Pontchartrain. Those are now the first lines of defense, not the seawalls themselves. In my opinion, all of the seawalls along those canal are under-engineered for storm surges. I watched the then new seawalls go in back in the 90s and they were all put in the same way along the entire length of the 17th St and London canals, which subsequently failed. I now would worry more about the gates operating correctly.