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To: Ilaine who wrote (135598)	8/31/2005 10:07:45 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793895

"voices crying in the wilderness" More self-satisfied and ignorant and asserively articulated BS. In other words, the worst kind. It was common knowledge, a decision made before the incredible subsidence was noted, and a devil's choice-- sit on your ass and get flooded by the surge or build a bunch of levees and hope they hold. The decision made to build hurricane levees was a reasonable one, a good one in fact. One reached with a lot of care and deliberation, especially after Hurricane Juan devastated the Westbank in 1985 with its storm surge and rain. The COE knew, the LDOT knew, all the levee district folks knew, anyone with a half a brain knew of the soup bowl phenomenon. Do you think it was particularly complicated to figure out? It was common discussion among laymen. I've known for years. Gimme a f****g break. To say that that only Houck and his class and a few pointy head intellectuals at LSU knew is ludicrous and arrogant and flat stupid, uninformed and dumb. But it fits nicely with your warped view of the world. I've been holding my tongue in the hope that you might stop exposing your abysmal ignorance, but it has come to the point where it has to be corrected. Your knowledge is outdated. What's your motto: "Often wrong, never in doubt?"