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For what it's worth, I believe the mayor is basically talking about his town, not the whole of South Louisiana that has flooded. It does seem like the more the government engineers mess with things the more things get screwed up though.


1 posted on 08/22/2016 7:11:40 PM PDT by OneVike
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Another example of gross incompetence on the part of govt planners and engineers. They can do this and get away with it and yet go after homeowners with the EPA Nazis for digging drainage ditches to protect their homes from damage.

What has happened to the institutions that build this nation? We could never build a Hoover dam today without fear of it collapsing from a heavy rain.

I cited this simple example about a year ago. A local airport was given 10 million dollars in govt funds to re-grade the field for drainage. Did they think to ask a single pilot or aviation professional their opinion of the plan? Well, short story is, like many airports, the field used to be relatively flat, such that if you needed to make an emergency landing you could do so from almost any direction, and crossing runways or taxiways would probably not seriously damage the aircraft. Now, with drainage taking priority over aircraft safety and minimizing landing hazards, if you roll off a runway you will very quickly either drop off a 3 foot bank or run smack into one, depending on which direction you are coming from. And visually you can’t even see this from the cockpit as its all grass covered and “looks flat” and continuous when its not.

10 million dollars of tax money and the airport is less safe than before they blew this money. This kind of waste and incompetence is happening all over.


2 posted on 08/22/2016 7:30:04 PM PDT by Magnum44 (I dissent)
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It's always the white man's faullt. Yes, guilty as charged because we have nothing better to do than make black people's homes flood since we know they can't swim and will drown../s

I get so tired of the self-pity and self-entitlement, its not my fault bullcrap

3 posted on 08/22/2016 7:31:46 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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Katrina 2.0.

At the time the morning after the hurricane everything was ok, but then the dams broke and hell was unleashed. Later it came out that the money sent to Louisiana to fix the dams was spent on other things.

Remember the guy who “borrowed” the school bus and drove people out! The state couldn’t do it, but this guy could!!


4 posted on 08/22/2016 7:39:00 PM PDT by lizma2 (')
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The Mayor should have sent his public works people to take care of the wall.


5 posted on 08/22/2016 7:40:22 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba ( Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.)
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I’m sure the Corps of Engineers and EPA will straighten the whole mess out to everyone’s satisfaction.


9 posted on 08/22/2016 7:52:32 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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I live in Walker, having moved here after losing my house outside New Orleans to Katrina.

What happened here is mind-boggling. The nearby Amite River crested at 41.5' in 1983, when much of this area flooded. Until last week, the 1983 flood was "the big one". Last week, the Amite crested at an incredible 46.2', over 5' higher than 1983. Areas which are solidly in flood zone X ("no-flood" zones) far from the river, which have never flooded, got deep water. My house was spared, but clients and friends all around us were hit very hard.

The headline for this story is misleading. This was a natural event. Basically, an overland, nameless tropical storm dumped 3 TO 4 TIMES THE RAINFALL OF KATRINA on us in about 2 days. Some local gauges had over 30 INCHES of rain! However, the man-made center wall on I-12 almost certainly played a part. It is a 6' tall solid concrete barrier that stretches for miles. It has only small seams between segments, and those building it definitely did NOT consider that they were making, in effect, a gigantic dam.

Below are links to 2 local news articles containing pictures of the flooded interstate. The flooded lanes are on the north side of the interstate, where most of Walker is located. Note that the water is almost up to the top of the wall, which is 6' in height, and extends as far as the eye can see. On the south are the eastbound lanes, which are practically free of water, and easily driveable. Only a little water is leaking through the small cracks between wall sections.

There is absolutely no way that this miles-long dam did not play a part in keeping the floodwaters from draining southward. I can see why the mayor feels as he does, and agree with him. With all the millions spent on this wall, not ONE designer or engineer stopped to consider that they were making it watertight! Another fine example of governmental stupidity.

Article 1

Article 2

10 posted on 08/22/2016 8:23:25 PM PDT by gbunch (http://www.AskGregAndDanielle.com)
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