Journalist Georgianne Nienaber recently wrote on the coordinated effort immediately after the Midwest flooding by spokespersons with the US Army Corps of Engineers to deflect responsibility for flooding away from the Corps. Just like in New Orleans after Katrina.
I will add to the fray and highlight some falsehoods coming from Eric Halpin, Special Assistant [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Corps of Engineers rewriting history on flooding and levee breaches
Saturday, June 28, 2008 – 2:35 pm
Two groups join Levees.Org’s call to address flooding
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 – 1:40 pm
Two more entities have joined our growing list of supporters calling for the 8/29 Investigation Senate Bill 2826 filed by Senator Mary Landrieu D-LA.
Last week, I received word that the Sierra Club Delta Chapter “strongly supports Levees.org’s campaign to get Congress to appoint an 8/29 commission. Two days later, I received word that the [...]
Corps of Engineers’ PR in high gear on Midwest Flooding
Monday, June 23, 2008 – 3:09 pm
In many cases, the Midwest flooding was a failure of the US Army Corps of Engineers to properly predict and control flooding. That explains why PR masters from the Corps of Engineers are very busy this week doing apparently coordinated interviews with major news sources.
Journalist Georgianne Nienaber covers this topic with some wry humor [...]
Favorite photos of the Midwest Flooding
Monday, June 23, 2008 – 1:07 pm
AccuWeather has posted their three favorite photos of the Midwest Flooding. The Number One photo is a submerged farm in LaGrange, Missouri, a whopping 314 feet above sea level. So much for the theory that New Orleans was doomed because parts of the city were below sea level.
What happened to the Midwest is [...]
The US Flood Epidemic: Nature or failing infrastructure?
Monday, June 16, 2008 – 10:16 am
The flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa over 700 feet above sea level, has been accurately compared to the flooding in New Orleans when levees breached during Katrina.
Also mirroring New Orleans is a Wisconsin town 1100 feet above sea level when an embankment of Lake Delton breached last week and emptied the lake into the nearby [...]
Levee video springs to top of YouTube charts
Sunday, June 8, 2008 – 3:58 pm
Levees.Org recently launched another very successful YouTube campaign. In the first 24 hours, our new video won 5 honors and went straight to the Home Page of YouTube where it gets very high visibility.
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