Posted on 05/24/2015 11:17:19 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
NEW ORLEANS Nearly 10 years on, one might assume that the case of Hurricane Katrina is closed.
That the catastrophic flooding of this city was caused not merely by a powerful storm but primarily by fatal engineering flaws in the citys flood protection system has been proved by experts, acknowledged by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and underscored by residents here to anyone who might suggest otherwise.
But the efforts to establish responsibility with ever more precision to ascertain just how many of those flaws were due to engineering, politics or money have not stopped.
A pending article in the peer-reviewed journal Water Policy, written by experts involved in some of the most significant previous examinations of the catastrophe, sets out to refine some high-profile early versions of the factors that led to the disaster. The article rebuts assessments of the levee systems design process that had spread responsibility around to include local officials, and it contends that fault should fall even more squarely on the corps. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The lefties frown upon mention of this, because blaming an environmental group for *anything* reflects poorly on our political system. After all, trout are people, too.
Would the USACE plans from '76 have prevented all the flooding? Probably not, but it might've reduced it by two-thirds or so. Some blame definitely belongs to the plaintiffs who killed that project.
Odd. The part of the levy that was built and maintained by the Corps held up fine. The parts built by local Dim politicians’ brother in laws and other cronies could never have held up. I am not a big fan of some of what the ACoE does, but the levy failures was much more about bribes and skimming off funding than that.
. . .but the people living in packing crates will reliably vote “D” anyway, so no NEED to give them perks.
Nope, it's all BS -- and not by coincidence, this ridiculous family of accusations is being regurgitated by Partisan Media Shills (PMS) at the New York Slimes. Thanks Brad from Tennessee.
“Lincoln’s fault - when it’s too great to blame Bush”
And Mr Go.
I’m still wondering who was dumb enough to build a city below sea level.
I blame mother nature and mans impotency to truly win against her
It's carl Roves' .. or was it Dubbya's ? .... secret hurricane, weather machine ....
EVERYBODY knows that.
All the while rejecting the fact that they lived below mean water level around them.
The most important lesson to be learned from Katrina has been totally ignored:
Don’t buy, build or rebuild a home, a business or a city on land that is below sea level.
I lay the fault at the feet of the politicians that handled the money set aside yearly for the maintenance and improvement of the levies all over New Orleans. There is more than enough literature and paper trail proving that the politicians (Democrat and Black) skimmed the money allocated for the levies for over forty years.
incredibly nobody there though of putting flood gates in the canals to prevent water from being forced back up canal
during storm
The Levy Board has always been corrupt. The Corps is just a scapegoat.
It’s a democrat city - at the bottom of all of it will be corruption, payoffs and kickbacks.
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