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Saying ‘Katrina flooded New Orleans’ is very confusing and dangerous to the American public. The tendency by media and politicians to say the New Orleans flooding was a natural disaster strips the human agency out of what’s really happening and protects those who made mistakes. In the case of the levee failures, this is quite useful for the Army Corps of Engineers, the entity responsible for the flood protection failures. And it’s very dangerous because 55% of the American people lives in counties protected by levees.
Saying ‘Katrina flooded New Orleans’ is also wrong, and like saying traffic broke the Interstate-35 bridge in Minneapolis. Both Katrina and the traffic revealed structural flaws. Both exposed blatant civil engineering mistakes. And in New Orleans those mistakes were made primarily by our Army Corps.
Please get a bumper sticker! Please send $1 donation and a self-addressed stamped envelop to: Levees.org, 1421 Soniat Street, NOLA 70115.
Or you can pick up a bumper sticker ($1 donation) at any of these convenient locations:
CARROLLTON
Graffiti Graphics
8739 Oak St.
New Orleans, LA 70118
(Mon – Fri 9-5)
504-861-9922
GENTILLY NEW ORLEANS
St. Paul’s Homecoming Center – Beacon of Hope
1509 Filmore Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70122
(Mon – Thur 9-4:30, Fri 9-3:30)
504.644.4125
UPTOWN NEW ORLEANS
Total Woman
3964 Magazine St
New Orleans, LA 70115
(Mon – Sat 11-5)
(504) 891-3964
Dirty Coast
5704 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
(Mon – Sat 11-6)
(504) 324-3745
FRENCH QUARTER
The Crabnet
925 Decatur St
New Orleans, LA 70116
(Mon – Sat 10-6; Sun 10-5)
504-522-3478
CHALMETTE
Chalmette Jewelry and Sporting Goods
507 West S. Bernard Hwy
(Mon-Fri 9-5, Sat 9-12)
504-271-2538
OLD METAIRIE
Interiors and Extras
324 Metairie Road inside shop
(Mon – Sat 10-5)
504-835-9902
Don’t see a convenient pickup spot? Please consider volunteering your business as a pickup location. http://levees.org/contact/
Saying “Katrina flooded New Orleans” is lazy shorthand and confuses the American public. It’s up to us, the citizens who live here, to set the record straight!