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To: Road Walker who wrote (2542)	8/30/2005 9:58:42 AM
From: Triffin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25976

Small fires starting to break out in greater New Orleans ... Wonder if the folks in the Superdome are getting food and water ??? This is going to go downhill real fast ... Remember what happened in Homestead the first few days after Andrew ??? and they didn't have the standing water that New Orleans is having to deal with ... FEMA needs to get visible fast ..... They're going to have to bring in some choppers with water buckets to spot drop on those fires .. quickly .. Triff ..

To: Road Walker who wrote (2542)	8/30/2005 10:01:33 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25976

Thanks, John, your thoughts and concern are much appreciated. Who knows what will happen. A lot depends on how quickly the water is pumped out before levees start to fail. If there are multiple failures, we are in a very bad situation indeed. One or two failures can probably be handled but it would take a massive effort. As I have posted elsewhere, I was involved in litigation concerning levee construction and have acquired some knowledge, which I suppose only makes me dangerous. Briefly, however, my confidence in them was reduced by the fact that the contractors who build them are thugs, the COE is underfunded and cannot do its supervision work like I would like to see it done and, finally, there has been unanticipated and widespread subsidence which I fear may affect the structural integrity of many levees.