New Orleans' drainage chief: 'It's a winnable battle'

[rucky]

New Orleans' drainage chief: 'It's a winnable battle'

By Sandy Davis; Baton Rouge Advocate

NEW ORLEANS -- There is a good chance the soggy and flooded sections of New Orleans might get dried out -- for the second time -- within a week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Sunday.
"It's a winnable battle," said Col. Duane Gapinski, commander of the Unwatering Task Force for the Corps of Engineers. "We had the city under control before Rita, and I'm pretty optimistic we're going to do it again."

Plaquemines Parish on Sunday was another story, Gapinski said.

"It will take us about three weeks to unwater it."

For now, the Corps of Engineers is focused on drying out New Orleans again...

http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/092605/new_nodrain001.shtml

[shraby]

1. What's with this term "unwater"?

Is that even a word?

[truthisfreedom]

2. is the guy another bush appointment?

that would explain his misunderestimation of the English language.

[Throckmorton]

3. Unwater is Technocrat Jargon

Which often does not follow the rules of standard english. Remember the period? Somehow the technospeakers made it into a Dot, which then escaped into daily english.

[rucky]

4. Of course not. This guy is actually working. n/t