Posted on 08/29/2007 3:32:38 PM PDT by SmithL
When's the DA going to sue the @$$hole responsible for this travesty? Nevermind, Run Nagin will probably get re-elected from his jail cell.
Personally, I feel like I've anted up enough tax dollars to rebuild Typhoon Lagoon. Let the Mardi Gras and Super Bowl drunks pay for the rest.
I'm happy ya'll in Mississippi have recovered well and fast. I know when a hurricane hits our area...2 yrs later we'd be back to normal.
I’m from Texas originally and I know what you mean. My Great Grandmother (now 105) lived near Pasadena until the flood of miscreants got to be too much. We moved her to Waco to live near my mother in March.
Anybody ever heard of “Mr.Go.” ??
Very good,,,Now you know why that place flooded so bad...:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_Gulf_Outlet
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Because of erosion, it was as much as three times as wide by 1989 than was originally constructed. When MR-GO was built, the channel was 650 feet wide at the surface. The average width is now 1,500 feet.
On May 19, 2007 the US Army Corps of Engineers announced it wants to build an earthen dam to plug the navigation channel. The corps will present a final plan to Congress by the end of the year, and Congress must still approve it. Officials said that if Congress doesn’t balk or slow the process down, a dam could be built by the start of next hurricane season.
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Levees along MR-GO were breached in approximately 20 places along its length, directly flooding most of Saint Bernard Parish and New Orleans East. Storm surge from MR-GO is also a leading suspect in the three breaches of the Industrial Canal.
Three months before Katrina, Hassan Mashriqui, a storm surge expert at Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center, called MR-GO a “critical and fundamental flaw” in the Corps’ hurricane defenses, a “Trojan Horse” that could amplify storm surges 20 to 40 percent. Following the storm, an engineering investigation and computer modelling showed that the outlet intensified the initial surge by 20 percent, raised the height of the wall of water about three feet, and increased the velocity of the surge from 3 feet per second (0.9 m/s) to 8 feet per second (2.4 m/s) in the funnel.
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Why did so many people die during Katrina, a Cat 5 hurricane, but no one died in Mexico during Dean, also a Cat 5 storm, last week? One word: “EVACUATION!”
Blanco: Evacuation urged, not ordered
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/9437106.html?showAll=y&c=y
Blanco told the defense lawyers that she did not order a mandatory evacuation for the New Orleans area, although she had the authority to do so.
“I did not issue that order because all of the local governments were deeply engaged in getting people out and helping people evacuate,” Blanco said.
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I found this interesting,,,”What did they know and when did they know it?”
I am on NN’s ping list and followed her thread for days,,,
If you look on a map you will see that the area of the
eye-strike(Yucatan) is protected by barrier islands,,,
Some dumass dug a friggin’ ship-channel through some of the last protection my state had,,,
These are FACTS...
Why doesn’t the idiot AG sue Blanco and Nagin?
Ooops, that question answers itself when vicious ‘RATs are involved.
“Why did so many people die during Katrina, a Cat 5 hurricane, but no one died in Mexico during Dean, also a Cat 5 storm, last week? One word: “EVACUATION!””
80% of the city of New Orleans evacuated before Katrina. If this hadn’t happened the numbers would have been higher.
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