Doug Carter wrote:

There seems to be a bit of confusion here. You brought up levees,
apparently in response to my assertion that the local and state
governments clearly *did not* "...do everything they could..."

But the statement of mine to the effect that the locals did everything they
could was a statement about the levees; nothing else. Don't take it as a
springboard to discuss disaster response efforts; that makes it appear that I
said the locals did everything perfectly there. I did not say that.

George Patterson
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