Katrina saved 50,000 lives? Spinning like washing machine on BS cycle

[The Straight Story]

Kevin Aylward: Katrina: Forget everything you thought you knew

Kevin Aylward, The Examiner
Aug 31, 2006 5:00 AM (18 hrs ago)

WASHINGTON - If you’ve only gotten your news about Hurricane Katrina from the mainstream media, everything you think you know about Katrina flooding New Orleans is probably wrong. On this first anniversary of the tragedy, while the networks congratulate themselves on their often wildly inaccurate reporting in the days following Katrina, there’s a far more important story not being told.

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In the year since Katrina, we’ve learned that the storm was a Category 1 by the time she hit New Orleans. We’ve also learned that the primary levee breach — the one that caused 70 percent of the flooding in the city — was not caused by the storm surge but by poor engineering.

After months of dissembling and obfuscation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — the designers of the levee system — the Corps was forced to admit what all the outside experts were saying; critical engineering mistakes caused the walls that were supposed to protect the city to collapse before they were overtopped by the storm surge. And on the east side of the city, the flooding was largely caused by a shipping channel the Corps dug three decades earlier.

The Great Flood of New Orleans was not a natural disaster but a man made one.

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Surprisingly, the video gives us every indication that New Orleans was doomed with or without Katrina. The amount of water in the canal was not unusual and, in fact, that wall had held far more water on previous occasions; that was before it was undermined for the better part of a year.

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All this leads to the even more shocking conclusion that Hurricane Katrina probably saved 50,000 lives.

That levee was doomed. While Katrina was the last straw, it was destined to fail. Studies done before the storm indicated that if a major hurricane overwhelmed the city’s levees, as many as 100,000 people would die as a result.





http://www.examiner.com/a-254236~Kevin_Aylward__Katrina__Forget_everything_you_thought_you_knew.html

So basically, one incompetence was saved by another....I guess it means they all cancel each other out so it can be flushed down the memory hole and we can prance about singing songs of joy.

Next up - global warming saves millions of lives, if the glaciers did not melt they would have gotten too big, fell apart, crashed into the ocean, and sent a huge tidal wave across the oceans wiping out coastal cities.

thank the lord we got bush in there saving out asses....

[OwnedByFerrets]

1. Interesting theory,

but certainly not something to rejoice about.

[Dr.Phool]

2. Which still begs the question.

Where the fuck was the emergency response?!!!!

[samsingh]

3. shameless spin