Re: In memory of New Orleans

On 4 Sep 2005 20:31:34 -0400, wdstarr@xxxxxxxxx (William December
Starr) wrote:

>In article <mrulh1te7vc7q6b0h3md9mofq1kmlia3rn@xxxxxxx>,
>"David Loewe, Jr." <dloewe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
>> The Army Corps Of Engineers, you know, the guys giving Chertoff
>> and Brown their info on how the levees will fare, didn't think the
>> levees would be breached - and, although it doesn't say this in
>> that article, they especially didn't think the particular ones
>> that failed would go.
>
>There are two issue here, and a truly *heroic* attempt is being made
>by certain people to conflate them:
>
>(1) Did FEMA have cause to expect that New Orleans would end up
>catastrophically flooded as a result of a levee break caused
>by/following this particular storm?
>
>(2) Did FEMA have cause to expect that New Orleans *could end up*
>catastrophically flooded as a result of a levee break, of whatever
>cause?
>
>That the answer to the first question may be 'no' is utterly
>irrelevant to what FEMA, and the whole federal government from the
>top down, did and didn't do, and how, after the disaster occurred.

So... we're back to over-inflated expectations of what would happen in
what order and what time-frame - is THAT all?

Remember this - After Katrina passed over on Monday, *Mississippi* was
the hard hit area. Not until Tuesday did NOLA become *the* priority
with the levee breaks - and even then the Army Corps of Engineers
thought they could plug the holes in time for damage to be minimal.
--
"Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?"
Justin Hayward
.

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