"Smarmy... yet ineffective. You're an engineer, aren't you?"
I'm not sure what your point is but given the hundreds of miles of levees that are imperiled by a couple 200' breeches, it is imperative they be repaired since they are not designed to be wet on both sides.
There is an incredible amount of infrastructure that is going to be obliterated for lack of a plan to plug a very finite distance.
You keep talking about a "lack of a plan"... and yet you denigrate "bureaucrats".
I see lots of finger-pointing bureau-speak, not just you, but all over these threads.
In emergency situations my NUMBER ONE peeve are the finger-pointers. They are the ones that are the most useless ones in the room. Lots of that here today.