How Congress Rewarded the Corps of Engineers for Drowning New Orleans
After the Corps of Engineers’ levee system broke during Katrina, the 109th Congress crafted true reform legislation. Modeled after the Countrywide Dam Safety Program, the Act created many new practices including, but not limited to, levee performance requirements, the first ever National Levee Database (NLD) and an new inspection process for all of our nation’s […]
Sixth Anniversary event in the lower ninth ward
This morning I attended a Sixth Anniversary Commemorative event in the Lower Ninth Ward sponsored by Councilman Jon Johnson. Afterward, miraculously, I captured a decently good 20-second video of the Second Line afterward from where Robert Lynn Green Sr, on August 29, 2005 floated on his roof to two blocks away.
Event marking the Sixth Anniversary of the Day the Levees Broke
I am providing this information below sent to me from Robert Lynn Green, Sr whose mother Joyce H. Green (73 yrs) and granddaughter, Shanai Green (3 yrs) were lost in the floodwaters when levees breached during Katrina on August 29, 2005. The Sixth Anniversary event in the Lower Ninth Ward begins Monday August 29, 2011 […]
