Question about levees

[ThatsMyBarack]

Did they ever rebuild the levees after Katrina, or do they simply not exist to keep out Gustav?

[Cooley Hurd]

1. My understanding is that they were repaired, but not improved...

[malaise]

2. When Chertoff says he's not sure they will hold

it's time to move.

[whistle]

3. Hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for levees to be rebuilt

...since Katrina have been tied up in red tape by BushCo, so the answer is NO!

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Army Corps says condition of levees unknown
Agency that oversees nation's levees lacks inventory of thousands of them


updated 4:03 p.m. ET, Mon., May. 12, 2008
ST. LOUIS - Across America, earthen flood levees protect big cities and small towns, wealthy suburbs and rich farmland. But the Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency that oversees levees, lacks an inventory of thousands of them and has no idea of their condition, the corps' chief levee expert told The Associated Press.

The uncertainty, amid an unusually wet spring that has already caused significant flooding across many states, is creating worry even within the corps.

"We have to get our arms around this issue and understand how many levees there are in the country, who's watching over them, what populations and properties are behind them," Eric Halpin, the corps' special assistant for dam and levee safety, said in an interview last month. "What is the risk posed to the public?"

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24580927/

[tannybogus]

4. They've tried something.

However, they say the levees won't withstand anything over a CAT 3. I saw one report on levee repair, and they had been filled with old newspapers.

The reporter literally pulled out front pages, etc. Nagin said he was worried about the western part of the area because the levee repair wasn't finished and

there were holes. THREE years later and there are effing holes. They should fill them with bureaucratic bodies. I'd put John, Cindy and Sarah in first.

[fishnfla]

5. The Times_picayune describes the levees as "incomplete"

they have been in poor shape for a long, long time