This is what everyone here in New Orleans already knew.
There was a series of articles done just three weeks before the storm hit.
The money was sent to Iraq.
I'm sure the rabid folks on here still would've rather spent the money on the false war than here at home.
Will the sheeple learn from this and wake up??? Only time will tell.
9-4-2005 Despite Warnings, Washington Failed to Fund Levee Projects
In late May, the New Orleans district of the Army Corps of Engineers formally notified Washington that hurricane storm surges could knock out two of the big pumping stations that must operate night and day even under normal conditions to keep the city dry.
Also, the Corps said, several levees had settled and would soon need to be raised. And it reminded Washington that an ambitious flood-control study proposed four years before remained just that ? a written proposal never put into action for lack of funding.
In May, Al Naomi, the Corps' senior project manager for the New Orleans district, reminded political and business leaders and emergency management officials that a Category 4 or 5 hurricane was always possible. After that meeting, Walter Brooks, the regional planning commission director, came away shaking his head.
"We've learned that we're not as safe as we thought we were," he told the local newspaper, the Times-Picayune.
There was a series of articles done just three weeks before the storm hit.
The money was sent to Iraq.
I'm sure the rabid folks on here still would've rather spent the money on the false war than here at home.
Will the sheeple learn from this and wake up??? Only time will tell.
9-4-2005 Despite Warnings, Washington Failed to Fund Levee Projects
In late May, the New Orleans district of the Army Corps of Engineers formally notified Washington that hurricane storm surges could knock out two of the big pumping stations that must operate night and day even under normal conditions to keep the city dry.
Also, the Corps said, several levees had settled and would soon need to be raised. And it reminded Washington that an ambitious flood-control study proposed four years before remained just that ? a written proposal never put into action for lack of funding.
In May, Al Naomi, the Corps' senior project manager for the New Orleans district, reminded political and business leaders and emergency management officials that a Category 4 or 5 hurricane was always possible. After that meeting, Walter Brooks, the regional planning commission director, came away shaking his head.
"We've learned that we're not as safe as we thought we were," he told the local newspaper, the Times-Picayune.
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