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2005-12-01 Science & Technology

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Posted by Steve 2005-12-01 09:11|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nothing to see here. Move along, don't worry I'll be part of the new levee system.

Posted by Fly Ash Liberation Army 2005-12-01 09:53|| 2005-12-01 09:53|| Front Page Top

#2 A lot of people should at least loose their jobs over this as well as do jail time.

But that isn't going to happen. All the evidence was destroyed in the flood, heh. That too is evidence of how endemic corruption is in NOLA. What should and can happen is that the tax payers of New Orleans, not the Federal government, should foot the bill for rebuilding. If few return, rebuild little. I don't know why we should rebuild an amusement park in a flood zone if it can't support itself. Cheaper to get releases, pay everybody off, and let them re-start their lives in a place other than a flood plain. If it makes sense for NOLA to be rebuilt, it will be done regardless of how much the feds spend there.

Posted by Spuque Spealing5363 2005-12-01 10:33|| 2005-12-01 10:33|| Front Page Top

#3 When was that particular levee built?

Posted by Penguin 2005-12-01 10:58|| 2005-12-01 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Penguin, No link, but I think 1993.

Posted by Shipman 2005-12-01 14:44|| 2005-12-01 14:44|| Front Page Top

#5 What this article fails to explain is that Professor Ivor van Heerden predicted the consequences of mega-storms like Katrina well prior to her actual arrival. Here is one of his quotes: "Imagine you're the poor person who decides not to evacuate: Your house will disintegrate around you. The best you'll be able to do is hang on to a light pole, and while you're hanging on, the fire ants from all the mounds -- of which there is two per yard on average -- will clamber up that same pole. And eventually, the fire ants will win. The levees intended to protect the city vary in height, from as low as 10 feet above sea level to about 14 feet, he said. They too are vulnerable because they are made of earth, he said." A native a Natal South Africa, Van Heerden is the deputy Director of LSU's Hurrican Center.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-12-01 16:19|| 2005-12-01 16:19|| Front Page Top

#6 The good news is that the fire ants had their tiny red asses kicked. No little trailers for YOU!

Posted by Shipman 2005-12-01 17:25|| 2005-12-01 17:25|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL! Did they at least get blue roofs for their mounds?

Posted by Matt 2005-12-01 17:34|| 2005-12-01 17:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes they did Matt, but the mold. The mold!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-12-01 17:40|| 2005-12-01 17:40|| Front Page Top

#9 They're ants. Mold is food. OMG, New Orleans is gonna be neck deep with trillions of well fed fire ants! Run for the hills, or at least 10 (19 if you are NoI) feet above sea level.

Posted by ed 2005-12-01 17:48|| 2005-12-01 17:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Soeaking of which, you'd at least think the environmentalists would be giving us some credit for growing the world's largest population of free-range mold.

Posted by Matt 2005-12-01 17:49|| 2005-12-01 17:49|| Front Page Top

#11 absolutely NO reason why this happened other than massive fraud and/or incompetence. Jailtime, confiscation of wealth, confiscation of licenses, firings....and then you really kick ass

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-01 19:30|| 2005-12-01 19:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Frank - you're a civil engineer, yes? (And AP, IIRC).

I worked with the COE in KC in 1982. Inconceivable they could have permitted this sort of failure.

Unbelievable.

Corruption makes it less unbelievable....

Posted by Bobby 2005-12-01 21:41|| 2005-12-01 21:41|| Front Page Top

#13 yep - Registered in CA

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-01 22:40|| 2005-12-01 22:40|| Front Page Top

#14 Where all the levees are holding.

For now.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-12-01 23:43|| 2005-12-01 23:43|| Front Page Top

#15 IOW, its the guesstimates now post-KATRINA/FEMA-GATE versus the guesstimates when the levees were first built many decades ago - either way, NOLA wants the Fed to pay out.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-12-01 23:51|| 2005-12-01 23:51|| Front Page Top

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