New Orleans repeating deadly levee mistakes
August 23rd, 2008 . by TexasFredNew Orleans repeating deadly levee mistakes
NEW ORLEANS - Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten a lesson from four decades ago and believe once again that the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper behind.
In a yearlong review of levee work here, The Associated Press has tracked a pattern of public misperception, political jockeying and legal fighting, along with economic and engineering miscalculations since Katrina, that threaten to make New Orleans the scene of another devastating flood.
Dozens of interviews with engineers, historians, policymakers and flood zone residents confirmed many have not learned from public policy mistakes made after Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which set the stage for Katrina; many mistakes are being repeated.
“People forget, but they cannot afford to forget,” said Windell Curole, a Louisiana hurricane and levee expert. “If you believe you can’t flood, that’s when you increase the risk of flooding. In New Orleans, I don’t think they talk about the risk.”
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New Orleans repeating deadly levee mistakes
The people of New Orleans are not too smart sometime, at least that’s my opinion on the matter. Even if the people of New Orleans think I a NOT entitled to an opinion on their fair city simply because my screen name is TexasFred.
I am NOT joking, that is the rationale offered by many on the NOLA.com site, “You’re from Texas, why do you care what we do or how we do it?” and honestly, I considered a name change but LouisianaFred or CajunFred just didn’t ring my bell, ya know?
But according to the thought process that is New Orleans, I surely can’t have a legitimate opinion of New Orleans and it’s maladies. Never mind the fact that I was born in Louisiana, or that we lived in New Orleans and south Louisiana when I was a lot younger. Never mind the fact that my family goes back to at least the early 1800’s in Louisiana history. That doesn’t matter to the *welfare slugs* and the narrow minded, pompous asses that believe New Orleans to be *bullet proof* when the next hurricane comes in and finishes what Katrina started.
There are some very simple FACTS in play regarding New Orleans, but the simple minds OF New Orleans just can’t seem to grasp them.
New Orleans Is Sinking - Popular Mechanics
New Orleans Is Sinking, New Orleans May Sit In The Gulf Of Mexico In 90 Years - CBS News
ScienceDaily: New Orleans - The New Atlantis?
BBC NEWS Americas New Orleans ’sinking even faster’
NPR : Satellite Imagery Shows a Sinking New Orleans
And even given these facts and predictions, the U.S. government continues to pump billions of OUR tax dollars into their attempt at saving what is, truly, a lost cause. And after the rude arrogance exhibited by the people OF New Orleans and NOLA.com combined with the corruption and inept Democratic leadership that IS New Orleans, I don’t care if the whole damned place falls off in the Gulf.
I just don’t want to see any more of our tax dollars wasted on that stink hole.
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You could very easily take the name New Orleans out and replace it with Iraq.
I realize this post is not about Iraq but New Orleans, just the two seem so much alike.
Billions of dollars and both will prove to be a waste of time and money.
Ya know, I seriously though the same thing as I was writing my commentary…
Difference….most folks in NOLA kind of speak English.
Admin Edit: Changed NO to NOLA
OK, I figured it out…
NO is NO… NOLA is New Orleans…
And the Iraqis speak English too, it’s a lot like shooting pool, the harder ya hit em, the more English you get…
People insist on living at the bottom of a funnel poised over a huge swimming pool.
Other people insist on living on a major earthquake fault line right next to another huge swimming pool.
In my local area they have a dog track and casino on an island in the middle of the Ohio River. Not to mention the people who live on the same island. Then there are countless creeks, runs, and streams in the local area and all have houses build as close to them as possible.
Other people insist on building multi-million dollar houses on sand bar islands off the east coast of the US right next to another huge swimming pool.
IMO, this just makes humans insane by any standard, so nothing can be done or will ever be done about all this.
Kate speak for “oh HELL NO…the black hole!”
ok ok ok. I’ll try to remember….NOLA 
For some reason New Orleans reminds me of a Led Zeppelin song.
If it keeps on rainin, levees goin to break,
If it keeps on rainin, levees goin to break,
When the levee breaks Ill have no place to stay.
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-AanPHMbC4
Billions and billions of POINTLESS dollars for residents that appear to be perenially stupid and continue to live there.
BZ