La. Report Blames Corps of Engineers for New Orleans Levee Breaks

March 23, 2007

  • March 23, 2007 at 1:56 am
    Mary Lynn Proctor says:
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    This study was a waste of time and money because there had been numerous studies published YEARS prior to to Katrina that predicted it would happen and why. However, I think a high school drop out could tell you that it is irresponsible to build an entire city below sea level.

  • March 23, 2007 at 2:01 am
    plymn says:
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    I couldn\’t agree more. However, still waiting for someone to spin it that it was the current administration\’s fault.

    Why can\’t we do what was done several years ago further upriver, when the floods hit the landowners were bought out so they wouldn\’t rebuild so close to the river? It probably won\’t be very long will it be until the next flood in New Orleans.

  • March 23, 2007 at 2:01 am
    Al says:
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    Bush blew the levies up to kill black democrats! Everyone knows that!

  • March 23, 2007 at 2:03 am
    ME says:
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    Did anyone expect that they would blame themselves? Hire a bunch of locals and blame someone other than those that live there everyday. Typical for that airmpit

  • March 23, 2007 at 2:07 am
    Bulldogg says:
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    HEY AL, YOU COULD NOT BE ANY MORE WRONG IN YOUR POST…

    It was Karl Rove…

  • March 23, 2007 at 2:37 am
    Hillary says:
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    Al and Bull Dog,

    You are close. It was actually a vast, right wing conspiracy.

  • March 23, 2007 at 3:44 am
    Broader View says:
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    [quote]However, I think a high school drop out could tell you that it is irresponsible to build an entire city below sea level.[/quote]

    I think the Netherlands would prove you wrong on that. It\’s irresponsible to build an entire city below sea level without properly engineering its protection from the sea, but there\’s nothing wrong with the idea if you do it right. Of course, that costs more money and takes more time, and requires the government to have more control over what people do near the dikes.

  • March 24, 2007 at 4:54 am
    Buy Flood Ins, not wind says:
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    Why is Waterfront, Lakefront, Oceanfront Property so beautiful & expensive?
    I live 2 miles from Lake Pontchartrain, where the levee broke.
    It has NEVER flooded here.
    I left my convertible benz in the drive because I knew it would be safer in LA than MS.
    I was wrong, it flooded in both states.

    This is the 1st time Lakeview Flooded.
    So why does everyone keep insulting us because of the sea leavel here?

    Florida floods more than LA.

    Give us a break.
    If you can\’t help people, shut up and move out the way.

  • March 26, 2007 at 10:59 am
    Jake says:
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    I thought the Democrats said Bush blew them up.

  • March 27, 2007 at 5:41 am
    SMM says:
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    Once again, Louisiana is seeking to place the blame for lack of proper flood control policies and procedures on someone else.

    Louisiana has spent the past 50 years hogging the flood control money for the Mississippi River basin.

    It is not the Corp of Engineer\’s fault that the state of Louisiana chose to allow people to build houses below sea level.

    It is not the Corp of Engineer\’s fault that subsidance is increasing in the delta area.

    What the \’learned engineers\’ fail to point out in their report (or perhaps the media failed to address) is that some areas of New Orleans have sunk more than 15 feet since the levees were built.

    The state of Louisiana failed to fund money to rebuild the levees as they sunk. After all, once the Corp of Engineers had finished the projects it was the states responsibility to maintain then.

    I live in the Mississippi valley too – in the St. Louis area. After our 1000 year flood in 1993 we moved people out of the river bottoms and raised taxes to build higher levees. The entire town of Valmeyer, IL relocated to the top of the bluffs above the old city!

    I don\’t have much sympathy for people who choose to live below sealevel and won\’t pay for adequate levees. Why should the rest of the country pay for their foolishness?



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