New Orleans residents are imbeciles?
The national belief that New Orleans was leveled by a natural disaster is the single biggest obstacle to New Orleans’ recovery. This myth is the reason that flood survivors are being blamed for the tragedy. It is why the Pittsburgh Tribune calls us “imbeciles” for our wish to rebuild. It is why the Hartford Courant [...]
POP: Personal OPinion- Anybody out there?
So we know that the New Orleans levee-risk study was faulted – we know that engineers have criticized holes in the analysis that was conducted, and that the Army Corps of Engineers admitted in June 2006 that design flaws in the New Orleans levee system had caused most of the flooding during Hurricane Katrina. Did [...]
NEWS: Prof. Ray Seed – Saving CA’s Delta?
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: Can we save California’s Delta? Raymond B. Seed, Professor of GeoEngineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, CA, Past Presentation 2006 The catastrophic flooding of New Orleans during hurricane Katrina was the single most costly failure of an engineered system in history. It was also a social and cultural [...]
