It'd be a wonderful thing to have Juanita call in the next time Sean has Suzy Creamcheese on his show ... woohooo.
Re: Katrina and NOLA
" Corps documents and hydrodynamic models run through a Louisiana State University supercomputer -- are the work of three teams of engineers and forensic experts conducting separate probes. The investigations are shedding light not only on the cause of the failures but also the scale of the rebuilding effort: The discovery of major flaws in the design of the city's levees and floodwalls could add billions of dollars to the cost of New Orleans' recovery.
Investigators already have rejected the initial explanation offered by Corps officials in the hurricane's aftermath that massive storm surges had overtopped and overwhelmed floodwalls on the 17th Street and London Avenue canals on the north side of town. The new findings for the first time point to a human role in all three of the major floodwall failures that left about 100,000 homes underwater and caused most of Louisiana's approximately 1,000 hurricane deaths.
Experts now believe that Katrina was no stronger than a Category 3 storm when it roared into New Orleans, and Congress had directed the Corps to protect the city from just such a hurricane.
"This was not the Big One -- not even close," said Hassan Mashriqui, a storm surge expert at LSU's Hurricane Center. He said that Katrina would have caused some modest flooding and wind damage regardless, but that human errors turned "a problem into a catastrophe."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/23/AR2005102301200.html?nav=rss_nation
It'd be a wonderful thing to have Juanita call in the next time Sean has Suzy Creamcheese on his show ... woohooo.
That's my dream come true! Sean wouldn't ambush Estrich like that though. (Another Republican who is too nice to fight but hey....that's why I love em. And, come to think of it, why I can't stand them sometimes.)
That's what I was thinking... set them up.