Comments on: Katrina-Battered New Orleans Levee Leaking

Experts Point To Seepage, Say Repaired 17th Street Canal Could Fail Again In Storm

[parrot123-2009]

lsv1974

Interesting discussion of economics, and I liked the request for a end to name calling, but did you really have to contradict yourself and call someone a "Bushie" and "Bushie brain"? You must be one of those psuedo intellectual liberals who thinks it is okay for libs to use insulting terms, but no one else.
Posted by bullyforhim at 12:36 PM : May 22, 2008

I thought ISV was spot on and it didn''t seem like name-calling if it''s true. Just my Opinion. Cheers!

[lsv1974]

Bully,

So "Bushie" is an insult now? I''m glad know it''s on the level with other curse words. It needs to be. And yes, I used it just to see if someone would respond about it.

[xalen54]

"I personally do not at all believe that this little wet spot is anything that is going to cause a breach or a failure of any kind."
Donald Jolissaint,
Army Corps of Engineers
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....... 3 seconds later xP

[lsv1974]

ShawnP

Cute little Bushie, aren''t you? The United States of
America has taxes AND POOLS ITS RESOURCES so every
citizen has a minimum amount of protection. California
has earthquakes, the Midwest has tornados, etc. The
Corps has levees and public works ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. OUR taxes pay for your safety, too. When
someone screws up, government or private industry,
they should be held accountable. Have a civilized
discussion and leave off the name-calling. But I think
that''s the best your Bushie brain can do.

[kellie97]

minnick8 I know you said you would not be here, but I will answer anyway. I get your point, but what I am saying is that people are saying how N.O. should not be rebuilt. That people like me, who have worked their entire life to bulid something they could be proud of having, are just supposed to pack up and leave everything behind and start new. Can you imagine how hard that would be for over half a million people? Would you just up and leave everyone and everthing you know and all that you have worked to acheive, or would you take your trust in God (and insurance companies)and live your life the best way you know how. Not all the people of N.O. are poor or on welfare (like the media likes to protray). We have hard working low and middle class people (rich ones too) who only want to have a decent life. That was my point.

[lsv1974]

The floodwalls/levees in Lakeview got foundations
that are 60 ft. deep.

Dr. Bea saw the plans for the repairs of the Industrial Canal floodwalls in the Lower Ninth Ward.

The foundations in the Lower Nine are only 20 FEET
deep. The Canal is 40 ft. deep! The Corp told
residents the foundations would be 60 ft. NO ONE CAN
TELL ME THIS ISN''T ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM.

G** D*** the Corp of Engineers. Their stupidity goes
back nearly 100 years.

FYI - I''m white and live in Holy Cross (Lower Nine)

[minnick8-2009]

Kellie97,

You will probably answer, but I have to log out and get some work done. So, I won''t be here.

[minnick8-2009]

kellie97
So why doesn''t the USA invest the resources necessary to make the levees secure? Like I said previously, it seemed apparent to me 35 years ago that NO was a disaster waiting to happen, and it did. We don''t hear about the levees on the North Sea not doing their jobs. So, whose fault is it that the levees in NO don''t do theirs? Would it be the Republicans? The Democrats? The Corps of Engineers? Corrupted officials in Louisiana? Whatever is happening is tragic and shouldn''t be in the U.S. So, great, don''t move. Stay there and get flooded again.

[bobnjersey]

["I personally do not at all believe that this little wet spot is anything that is going to cause a breach or a failure of any kind," he said. A newly installed floodgate could be used to cut off the flow of water into the canal and reduce pressure on the levee, he said.]

test it ... block the canal and flood it ... see what happens.

[kellie97]

Yes, we are such fools to live here. I could live in the midwest, but wait they have tornados and floods. I could move out west, but wait, they have earthquakes and firestorms, or I could move out east, wait the snow storms are brutal and the coast could get hit by a hurricane too. ***, what am I to do. I guess we should never live where a disaster could strike, so let move all of America to Arizona and Nevada, nothing ever happens there.

I had flood insurance and rebuilt my home. If we donot rebuild after any disasters, where would we all live? Too all those who say that N.O. should not be rebuilt, do we do that for all the cities in America that continue to flood or get hit by tornados or have forest fires. If it good for one, then it''s good for all.