The mention about caskets popping up out of the ground. That seems to happen a lot down there during floods. Up in Michigan, the casket is enclosed in a concrete vault so that can’t happen. It is also, allegedly so that the casket and its contents won’t contaminate the groundwater. are there no similar regulations down there? It’s gotta be a lot of fun every flood season seeing the dearly departed pop up and go sailing off downstream like some macabre little regatta.
No pumps made can keep up with 2 feet of rainfall.
Government is not in the business of fixing things. There’s not much to be gained in “fixing things”.
Government exists to step up when trouble strikes and exclaim, “I can fix that!”. This is now you get votes. This is how you get tax increases.
All that good stuff evaporates if you actually “fix things”.
This is true for flood areas. It is also true for government schools. Having bad government schools is very advantageous for people in government. They don’t want these things fixed. They want problems. As many problems as possible.
The supreme danger of Donald Trump is that he actually wants to fix stuff. That messes everything up and gets people very agitated.
You can’t simply ‘engineer’ for a 500-1000 year event Who ever wrote the article is foolish to think ‘drainage improvements would have done any good.
All of this water is going into the Mississippi River. What is going to happen to New Orleans when it gets there. Are the NO levees going to hold up?
Many Corps projects have been blocked by the environmentalists. It goes back to the blocking of the erection of flood control gates at the Rigolees that could have done much to limit the Katrina damage.
Just curious, has anyone accused Trump of blowing up a Levee yet?