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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going
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To: country bob who wrote (106722)9/6/2005 9:24:21 AM
From: PatiBob  Read Replies (3) of 225578
 
Absolutely! You're right on the money CB. Not to mention the fact that the corp of engineers has been telling them for as long as I can remember that those levees won't hold. It was only there for the protection of the city during flooding rains, not hurricanes.

After the 1900 storm leveled Galveston and washed away towns that never rebuild, Galveston built a seawall and raised the town up almost 20 feet on the wreckage of the old town and the dredging of the bay. The few buildings that were left standing and structerly sound were jacked up and placed on properly placed foundations (for that time).

I love my home state and hometown, I truly do. Not enough was done to protect it by local, state and federal government. It all starts at the bottom and works it's way up the governmental chain. Louisiana isn't immune from governmental corruption. Hell some might argue they wrote the chapter and verse when it comes to that.

When Hurricane Betsy hit in 1965, they knew then that the levees wouldn't hold back the water and that was a Cat 3 hurricane.

When the French first settled NO back in the early 1700's, they built levees. Did they hold? No, but the practice has been kept up and bigger levees have been built which don't hold back the flood waters during big hurricanes.

What's the answer? I have no idea. What I do know is what they've been using hasn't worked in the past. How can they be so shocked that it didn't work now?
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