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All this would have been much worse, had not the mayor taken down the R. E. Lee statue. /sarc
1 posted on 08/10/2017 10:42:46 AM PDT by abb
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It’s the fault of Republican presidents that the city officials are incompetent.

/s


2 posted on 08/10/2017 10:44:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.))
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"All this would have been much worse, had not the mayor taken down the R. E. Lee statue."

How right you are. Just think of all of that extra weight that would be in New Orleans now, causing the city to sink even further ...

3 posted on 08/10/2017 10:45:43 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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“Landrieu’s administration is looking to bring in a private company to temporarily run the Sewerage & Water Board in the aftermath of the growing scandal over the agency’s handling of Saturday’s floods.”

Let me re-word that: The corrupt and incompetent democrats running the S&W system screwed the pooch. Now, it’s time to bring in a private company that donates to the corrupt and incompetent democrats to take over temporarily. This will ensure not only that the problem gets solved, but that corrupt and incompetent democrats will have ample opportunity to skim dollars off of the deal.

PREDICTION: Trump will somehow be held personally accountable for this, Hurricane Katrina, Global Warming, New Coke and Colon Kaepernick not getting signed to a NFL team.


10 posted on 08/10/2017 10:54:23 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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“...five ancient turbines that power the Sewerage & Water Board’s system of pumps....”

I wonder how much a modern replacement turbine costs?


11 posted on 08/10/2017 10:55:18 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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Aaaahhhhh....Democrats and fires.

“No. Really. We were OK until that fire. Sure, five of the six turbines were already broke and we don’t have the money to fix them because, well, I needed that money for my condo in Kauai, but that fire was awful. Vote Democrat!”


12 posted on 08/10/2017 10:55:32 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Have any of these corrupt Democrats ever heard of ‘preventive maintenance’.


15 posted on 08/10/2017 11:07:18 AM PDT by Parmy
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But more importantly: was there enough ‘diversity’ on the water board?
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING is more important than diversity in a democrat run town.
Flooding is a temporary problem.
/s


16 posted on 08/10/2017 11:10:44 AM PDT by glasseye
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Money spent on removing Confederate Statues instead of servicing/replacing pumps, removing several things people could have climbed on to avoid flood...

Karma

19 posted on 08/10/2017 11:38:40 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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Useless govt oversight

NoLa can’t get its act together


22 posted on 08/10/2017 12:15:43 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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$175k pension awaits New Orleans water board chief after flood
24 posted on 08/10/2017 12:18:06 PM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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NO gonna flood.

It is the will of landreiu.


27 posted on 08/10/2017 12:26:28 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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You'd think that they'd have a wiring shunt available to hook up one of those big 18-wheeler sized mobile diesel generator rigs, huh? Silly me - of course they don't have alternate power source plans - it's New Orleans.

I'm surprised the city didn't put the bite on FedGov for new turbine-powered generators in 2006 or so.

31 posted on 08/10/2017 2:17:02 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_31744bf8-7e1d-11e7-a281-539456fe2e77.html

Mitch Landrieu says argument city prioritized Confederate monuments over drainage issues a ‘red herring’ | News

Advocate staff report
8/10/17

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu insisted City Hall’s priorities are in order during an interview with WWL-TV’s Katie Moore on Thursday afternoon, dismissing perception that the removal of the city’s Confederate-era monuments took away funds that could have been used to fix drainage issues amid recent flooding.

“The monuments issue is an emotional issue for everybody,” Landrieu said during the interview. “You could use that argument about everything we’ve done, and people are going to continue to use it. I think that’s a red herring.”

Landrieu reiterated most of the money for the removal of the monuments was raised privately and that a majority of the public funds spent during the removals was “a consequence of how people acted and for the security we had to provide to make sure people stayed safe.”

“I have spent very little time on the monuments personally, everyone else got apoplectic about it,”Landrieu said. “I spoke very forcefully to it, I think it was the right thing to do ... But it’s at the minimus amount in comparison to all the other things that we’re talking about ...”


39 posted on 08/11/2017 1:48:53 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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