Army Corps wasted nearly a half billion on defective pumps in New Orleans
We are disturbed, but not surprised by the Office of Special Counsel’s finding that the Army Corps of Engineers could have saved $430 million in replacement costs after Katrina by buying proven equipment for the outfall canals. As Levees.org stated in a mounted historical plaque in a neighborhood supposedly protected with these same pumps, we [...]
Saying Katrina destroyed New Orleans is like saying traffic destroyed the Minneapolis bridge
For the third time this season, Becky Bohrer, reporter for the Associated Press has used lazy shorthand when describing the federal levee failures in metro New Orleans that devastated the region. Yesterday, Bohrer wrote that Southern University in New Orleans was “virtually wiped out by Hurricane Katrina nearly four years ago.” To say Katrina wiped [...]
Becky Bohrer of the AP won’t stop using Katrina shorthand
Three times since April 16, 2009, Becky Bohrer of the Associated press has described the flooding in metro New Orleans as caused by Katrina. John McQuaid, author of “Path of Destruction, a book on the history leading up to Hurricane Katrina, condemns this. “…The shorthand of “New Orleans levees overtopped” – with its underlying associations [...]
