Subj : Um...no comment?
To   : Daemon
From : richardw
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 11:38:00

  Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Daemon to Frank Reid on Sat Sep 03 2005 03:07 am

 >  > bolster your low opinion of him.  Had you researched its accuracy, you'd 
 >  > that ZERO (none, nada, zilch) improvements have been made to the New Orle
 >  > levee system in nearly two decades, including during the eight years unde
 > 
 >   Hmm.  Maybe you should stop trying to deal with numbers when you run out o
 > fingers on your hand, as once you get to SIX, you find the information
 > contained within THIS document from the Army Corps of Engineers regarding
 > roughly $250 mil in savings due to efforts in 1999 which shored up exactly
 > what you allege hasn't been improved in 20 years:
 > 
 >   http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pao/releases/hurricane.HTM

From what I understand, it was a rebuilt portion of the levee that failed.  
Perhaps they should have stayed with the old earthen levees.  

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