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Federal Judge Says Corps of Engineers Liable For Katrina Damage
Hugh Pickens writes "The Christian Science Monitor reports that a federal judge has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers — and thus the US government — is liable for a big chunk of the damage caused when hurricane Katrina pushed ashore on August 29, 2005 by failing to stop the natural widening of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet canal (aka Mr. Go) causing it to eventually bump up against the shore of Lake Borgne, on the city's east side. 'It is the court's opinion that the negligence of the corps, in this instance by failing to maintain the MR-GO properly, was not policy, but insouciance, myopia, and shortsightedness,' wrote US District Court Judge Stanwood Duval. Judge Duval said he believed it was the failure to shore up the outlet that 'doomed the channel to grow to two to three times its design width' allowing waves on Lake Borgne to enter the Mr. Go and travel into the east side of the city, battering the levees to a degree to which they were not designed. 'One of the greatest catastrophes in the history of the US' was both predictable and preventable, testified veteran Louisiana geologist Sherwood Gagliano, a former Corps consultant."
Exactly, because breaching a levee in one place does not magically strengthen it in others,
You're being a big fucking idiot. It becomes particularly easy to believe when confronted with proof that an eyewitness account of the flooding from a federal emergency official reached the Homeland Security Department's headquarters starting at 9:27 p.m. the day before, and the White House itself at midnight while they claimed ignorance for an entire additional day. It's important to add as much delay as possible after any malfeasance to muddy the trail... Put another way, what kind of fucking numbnuts thinks such a thing is impossible? They said the same thing about Olivehurst/Marysville/Yuba City.
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Stop posting AC & I could be bothered to respond to you.
There is a war going on for your mind.
This just shows how uneducated you are about the area. Before you start parroting bullshit about subjects you obviously know nothing about, a least educate yourself just a little before post shit. I live in St Bernard Parish and live ABOVE sea level. This is about the Corps fuckup to maintain a NAVIGATION canal, not a levee. Get a clue.
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Insightful, are you fucking kidding me!!! All you assholes who are posting this shit I wanna know one thing- Do you like drinking your coffee, driving your car, eating food, etc,? Because if you do (sitting behind your shitty computers and ranting about events you absolutely know NOTHING about) you NEED New Orleans. It is the largest port in America, we refine all your gasoline because you assholes don't refineries in your backyard, and you vacation in our hometown like it's some kind of Disneyland. It's not, it's our home. Also the birthplace of jazz, environment for writers such as Faulkner, Tennessee Williams,etc. Do that in your backwoods noname shithole thank you very much!!!
Won't Bow.....Don't Know How
Plus, you can't make a good bouillabaisse without insouciance.
"Funny" is dangerous, your karma must be as good as mine. I see you saw the pun!
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