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KATRINA FOLLOW-UP: WHO BOMBED THE LEVEE?
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| 01 Dec 05
| Michelle Malkin
Posted on 12/01/2005 9:35:07 AM PST by stm
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To: shamusotoole
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posted on
12/01/2005 11:09:22 AM PST
by
al baby
(Father of the beeber)
To: ClearBlueSky
Unlike Orleans parish Levee Board inspectors, who drive around eating.
I'm sure that Bush is responsible for that...somehow. :)
I do think the management situation for the levees needs some serious looking at. Until the WSJ did its series of articles, I had no idea that so many different groups were involved in maintaining structures that all could suffer if one link failed.
I was impressed with the "after action" report given by Mayor Nagin late on the Monday after the storm. Very efficient and professional. What happened after that...I don't know.
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posted on
12/01/2005 11:12:52 AM PST
by
P-40
(http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
To: txroadkill
Hey now, Haliburton has a port in New Orleans. I bet they used a hurricane magnet.
Quick, Check Florida and Lake Charles to see if they have Halliburton offices. I think I've figured it out!
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posted on
12/01/2005 6:41:38 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(<thinking of new tagline>)
To: mbynack
Hehe... SCB was bought out by Atlanta based BellSouth over a decade ago.
24
posted on
12/01/2005 6:43:20 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(<thinking of new tagline>)
To: wolfpat
"It seems to me that the real problem is that New Orleans is a stupid place to put a city."
And a dumber place to rebuild one.
To: ClearBlueSky
"Gates closing off the canals that empty into the lake would certainly stop lake water from coming back into the canals and into the city."
No levee system is fool proof. We would be foolish as taxpayers to rebuild those levees. The sections of the city that flooded need to be abandoned or dredged and filled like we have in Punta Gorda.
To: Sunnyflorida
I don't disagree.
I lived in Lakeview 20 years and loved it, it was the prettiest part of the city and oddly I never felt it was 'low'. It was the levees along the lakefront that worried me, not the canals. If the huge surge from the lake never makes it into the canals that makes the lakefront levees the only ones that have to be reinforced-not miles and miles of interior canals.
No- no system is foolproof. The fact is the city is below sea level and the water table is only a few feet down. I don't think it's sensible to rebuild ANYTHING until levees are built according to specs, and even then the areas that were severely damaged should be left alone.
But we're talking about people's lives and private property. Many are not going to give their land up easily. They reason they will play the odds again- after all it took hundreds of years for this to happen.
I think New Orleans should be a seasonal destination- with everything concentrated near the Quarter, the river and the lakefront. During hurricane season it should be mostly closed for business. Running for your life a few times a month( possible!) 6 months of the year is just no way to live.
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posted on
12/01/2005 8:32:58 PM PST
by
ClearBlueSky
(Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
To: stm
"KATRINA FOLLOW-UP: WHO BOMBED THE LEVEE?" That's easy. Everybody knows it was Bush. < /sarcasm >
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posted on
12/01/2005 8:44:34 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Stupidity should make you sterile.)
To: clee1
I did it... And I spray painted "John Galt was here!" right next to the crater.
29
posted on
12/02/2005 12:07:09 AM PST
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: advance_copy
----But, but.... he said he had proof it was bombed! What a ridiculous, racist pompous ass for his people to follow and worship.
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posted on
12/02/2005 2:23:17 AM PST
by
WasDougsLamb
(I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
To: stm
KATRINA FOLLOW-UP: WHO BOMBED THE LEVEE? I did. I've hated Lake Pontchartrain since I was a kid. Too much water. Too long a bridge.
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posted on
12/02/2005 8:47:10 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Merry Christmas ya'll)
To: stm
A year ago Beth LeBlanc and her neighbors on Bellaire Drive had a problem no one could seem to fix. Their yards, which swept to the base of the 17th Street Canal levee, kept filling with water. Then on Aug. 29, as Hurricane Katrina moved out of the area, that levee collapsed and tumbled into their homes, allowing Lake Pontchartrain and a world of misery to pour into the city. Now the residents of Bellaire Drive have questions. I'd say "Lake Pontchartrain is trying to fill your front yard" is a pretty darn good answer.
To: stm; DarthDilbert; Salem; conservativegamer; rightinthemiddle; phatoldphart; MoochPooch; ...
Malkin ping!
Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Michelle Malkin ping list...
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posted on
12/02/2005 10:58:08 AM PST
by
cgk
(Cheney: Senators Reid, Kerry & Rockefeller were unable to attend due to a prior lack of commitment.)
To: sauropod
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posted on
12/02/2005 12:04:58 PM PST
by
sauropod
("The love that dare not speak its' name has now become the love that won't shut the hell up.")
To: stm
But according to the Washington Post, reports of levee problems began to surface in the mid-1990s, before the floodwalls were even completed. The timeline is sketchy, but it looks like the flawed design plans were approved about two decades ago. For the mathematically-challenged, that's more than 10 years before Dubya was elected President.
Interesting.
To: Sunnyflorida
New Orleans and Florida should both be bulldozed immediately.
I do not want to rebuild for people who insist in living in areas that will be hit by a hurricane every few years.
To: H. Paul Pressler IV
"New Orleans and Florida should both be bulldozed immediately."
Redic. I do not ask for nor recieved federal aid. We pay for insurance and it paid for the damage I got from Charley.
I do agree there should be private flood insurance. It would be very expensive and all those cheap busy-bodies from up north, especially the Canadians, would have to go back home. The only people that lived here would be the oldtimers that own their property out-right and a few wealthy individuals that could afford mortage company mandated flood insurance.
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