In a recent article, Associated Press reporter Brian Schwaner discusses the lack of progress in New Orleans. But Schwaner, like too many others, does not mention that New Orleans is in this mess because the US Army Corps of Engineers bungled the levees. The caption below the photograph says “if the Army Corps of Engineers [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
pOp: From the Bay to the Bayous
Saturday, August 18, 2007 – 1:09 am
As I prepare to head back home to New Orleans for my 2nd August “Katrina Commemoration” trip, Hurricane Dean is heading toward the Gulf of Mexico. Am I a bit nervous about being in New Orleans next week? Sure am… somehow, for me, growing up in a City that’s below sea level, a Cat-4 or [...]
NEWS: Prof. Ray Seed Publishes Final Report on Failure of New Orleans Levee System
Saturday, August 18, 2007 – 12:54 am
From a report/document published on 8/24/06, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, UC, Berkeley: In its final report published on July 31, 2006, the team (of 38 engineers and investigators led by Professor Raymond Seed) concluded that the several dozen levee failures in this catastrophic event occurred for a number of reasons, including the choice of [...]
NEWS: Experts Warn of CA Flood Disaster
Saturday, August 18, 2007 – 12:53 am
San Francisco (KCBS) – A panel of experts speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco today said California will suffer a disaster bigger in scale than Hurricane Katrina if the state doesn’t act quickly to improve its flood control systems. The Delta and the Central Valley are at grave risk for calamity, and Sacramento [...]
NEWS: TIME Magazine, Aug 13, 2007: Why New Orleans Still Isn’t Safe
Saturday, August 18, 2007 – 12:53 am
Check out the complete article by Michael Grunwald in this Aug 13, 2007 issue of TIME Magazine. The cover photo is worth a thousand words. “Two years after Katrina, this floodwall is all that stands between New Orleans and the next hurricane. It’s pathetic. How a perfect storm of big-money politis, shoddy engineering and environmental [...]
TIME magazine tells real New Orleans story
Friday, August 3, 2007 – 5:58 pm
A decorated senior reporter with TIME magazine has connected the dots and told the whole story about what happened in New Orleans and south Louisiana on August 29, two years ago. Michael Grunwald also nicely summarizes everything in the first paragraph. “The most important thing to remember about the drowning of New Orleans is that [...]