Don White wrote in message
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Starbuck wrote:
Don,
When you saw the floods in NO, and the people stranded there, it was the
Mayor's fault.


I was thinking it was an underbuilt levee system. There should have
been some kind of ditch on both sides running all the way to the Gulf.

Did you happen to catch the interview with the Army Corps of Engineers
commander?
A question was posed about the potential of Rita hitting NO and if the
damaged levies could withstand another CAT 3 storm. He said no, but, in the
event Rita hits, they planned to seal off the affected canals at both ends,
so no water could spill into and flood the city.

WTF is he talking about? And, if that works, why didn't they do that before
Katrina?

Eisboch