Somebody knows somth'in bout birth'n hurricanes

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Originally Posted by richlevy

... but it doesn't seem too improbable that a system built in the 1900's and updated as late as the 1980's might be obsolete by todays standards. The question becomes "why wasn't this addressed"?

Why are so many are being taken on this ride of irrelevance? Is this controversy so that we forget the lies of George Jr - ie "Nobody expected the levees to be breached"?

Everyone expected the levees to be breached. Levees were upgraded to survive a category 3 storm. They did that just fine. They were predicted to be breached by a category 4 or 5 storm. Again, they performed as expected. Where is the controversy? Facts remain: Michael Brown's own subordinate, Bahamonde, personally e-mailed Michael Brown and numerous other FEMA managers that the levee had been breached. He even personally told Michael Brown that same thing about 7 hours later by phone. And yet facts remain - Michael Brown and FEMA were in complete denial that the levees were breached - as predicted - for almost one day. Furthermore, when Brown said the levees were breached, he also said New Orleans was not filling up like a bowl. The levee breach is about FEMA lies - not about the levee construction. Those levees perfomed exactly as pedicted. It was FEMA that was in denial - letting people die while FEMA did nothing.

Construction of those levees is an interesting engineering analysis; totally irrelevant to layman. The levees performed exactly as predicted. Don't for a minute forget why 1050+ people died in New Orleans - FEMA top management AND George Jr who was told those levees would be breached and then went to San Diego for a political fund raiser.

Don't let them confuse you with irrelevant facts. People died in New Orleans as Michael Brown and George Jr remained in denial - as demonstrated by what happened to the USS Bataan.