New Orleans was doomed

Costliest engineering blunder in history

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1133336859287360.xml
from JoeUser Forums

The levee on 17th Street in New Orleans shouldn't have broken.  While designed to handle a load of 14 feet of water, it never reached that and broke causing what is now estimated at $300 billion in damage.

According to the investigation, the engineering error was so obvious, so trivial that it should have been spotted and that it was not caught ultimately resulted in a significant percentage of the damage done to New Orleans from Katrina.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Just wait till Farrakhan gets hold of this.

Cheers,
Daiwa
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

It was noticed.  After the failure.  This is no surprise to anyone who lives there or has relatives there.  And it is coming out IN SPITE of the MSM.  Blanco and Nagin are going down, and a whole bunch more!  I would not be surprised if it gets Landrieu as well.

It is what Just John has been talking about.  And what many of us knew all along.

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