A question regarding the levees in New Orleans?

[Missy M]

It was known for at least a week that Katrina was likely to hit NO and was a big, powerful storm. My question is, can you reinforce the levees with extra sandbags and whatever else is used in anticipation of the storm. Is so would this have helped stop what happened? Did they do any of this?

[rfranklin]

1. There were no hleicopters to carry the sandbags...

the helicopters are in Iraq.

[jus_the_facts]

2. the city of New Orleans and state of Louisiana have BEGGED the US gov't...

..for help with building a 25ft retaining wall around the city for DECADES and there just wasn't enough concern to fork over the funds to build it...the Army Corps. of Engineers levees weren't good enough....now we're seeing the very worst that those levees didn't protect....and all I'm hearing down here is a lot of talk and not much action in solving the problems ongoing....so much for the ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY. :puke:

[fishnfla]

3. The levee system is too expansive

its several hundreds of miles long. Also, the extra weight and travel on the levees may further weaken them

[Spurt]

4. The world got lied to

I just watched the smirker smirking on BBCWorld. To excuse the delayed rescue response he smirked that "nobody expected the levee's to be breached, we were ready for an F5 storm but not for the breach" (edit - paraphrased).

Now that is a lie that should come right back and bite him.
If I owned a paper I'd stop the presses immediately for that one.

After Cindy asks her question, somebody from NO who has lost everything should be asking smirker why their whole family has perished for failed political policy.

[SmokingJacket]

5. Well, after the lie about no one anticipating terrorists flying into

buildings, this one's an easy lie.

But yeah, it IS a big fat one. Everyone except the media seemed to know that the threat was from the lake, not from the storm itself.

[MadHound]

6. No doubt friend!

I remember that as early as Friday evening, talking head on the Weather Channel were going through worst case scenarios, and the big one was that the levees would break under the force of either an F4 or F5 hurricane. As Saturday and Sunday progressed, everybody on all networks were screaming about how the levees would break, that they were only built to withstand an F3 hurricane, and that it was a highly plausible scenario that the levees would go.

I guess Bush boy was too busy eating cake, playing his guitar, and clearing brush to turn on the TV and find out what everybody else in this country knew, that Katrina was going to take out the levees and consequently the entire city of New Orleans.

[Spurt]

7. Agreed

We all knew about the dangers before hand. It was in much media before the bitch hit.
Now there are a lot of angry people starting to pay attention.

Thanks smirker for a fresh whopper to evidence you as a blatant liar.
Sub 30% coming right up.