Ridiculous NYT quote

[shireen]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/national/nationalspecial/02response.html
" But on Thursday, disaster experts and frustrated officials said a crucial shortcoming may have been the failure to predict that the levees keeping Lake Pontchartrain out of the city would be breached, not just overflow. "

I'm no civil engineer ... but geez, if the city is sinking, wouldn't that make the foundation of the levees unstable, leading to a breach?

Please don't tell me that the disaster experts and frustrated officials who said that are *that* stupid! It sounds more like misleading propaganda from the Bush crime family.

[bustarbusto]

1. That's just insane

Anyone who's every built a sandcastle knows that overflow always leads to breach. God help us.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. The NYT comment contradicts what is known.

Those levees were only good for a Category 3 hurricane. They got a 4. Do the math.

[wli]

4. The predictions were made and borne out, precisely. n/t

[Pallas180]

3. Exactly. Turns out Army Corps recently made model of what

would happen with hurricane and breech of levees ---engineer said what happened in reality is exactly what happened in the "model" they made...so Washington knew about it too,.

Maybe Condi forgot to tell dubya about that too.

[WilliamPitt]

5. Um...pssst...Times dudes?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090105L.shtml

[shireen]

6. Please write the NYT!

please send an email to the NYT pointing out how utterly stupid that statement is. Bustarbusto, I really like your sandcastle analogy. [e-mail]