New Orleans Lakefront Airport

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
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Our crystal ball (aka TWC) only fortold that the Gulf Coast would be hit,
not NO specifically. The point is that little or no pre-landfall
preparation seems to have taken place. A few water trucks and a thousand
dollars worth of paper cups at the superdome would have gone a long way as
would a couple of large generators and a diesel truck to fuel them (all
availible at the local equipment rental company). There are people who's
job is to think of this stuff and they had decades to think it through. I
find their performance unsatisfactory. The outcome of a levee breach at
NO
has been feature on almost every hurricane show I have ever watched on TV.
This shouldn't have been a surprise.

One of the two levees that broke had recently been upgraded. The old ones
held fast.

http://nytimes.com/2005/09/01/nation...l/01levee.html


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

Matt Barrow wrote:
One of the two levees that broke had recently been upgraded. The old ones
held fast.

The report I heard was that they added a wall atop the levee.
Isn't that just like a big lever to dig the levee when the water pushes
against it?

Matt Barrow opined

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
ink.net...
Our crystal ball (aka TWC) only fortold that the Gulf Coast would be hit,
not NO specifically. The point is that little or no pre-landfall
preparation seems to have taken place. A few water trucks and a thousand
dollars worth of paper cups at the superdome would have gone a long way as
would a couple of large generators and a diesel truck to fuel them (all
availible at the local equipment rental company). There are people who's
job is to think of this stuff and they had decades to think it through. I
find their performance unsatisfactory. The outcome of a levee breach at
NO
has been feature on almost every hurricane show I have ever watched on TV.
This shouldn't have been a surprise.

One of the two levees that broke had recently been upgraded. The old ones
held fast.

http://nytimes.com/2005/09/01/nation...l/01levee.html

Sounds like they used the same contractors that Boaton used for the Big Dig.



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Cthulhu in 2005!
Why wait for nature?