LONDON--A search of Google News shows this story hasn't penetrated beyond the Louisiana border...yet, but today's Times-Picayune reports that Team Louisiana, the ambitious investigation of the flooding that occurred in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, has released its findings. No surprise, except to those who still believe what happened to New Orleans was a natural disaster: the report catalogues a series of mishaps, poor decisions and other mistakes by the United States Army Corps of Engineers that caused the disaster. And New Orleans City Business, hardly a haven for hotheads, tees off on the Corps' decision knowingly to install faulty pumps in time for last year's hurricane season.
This will be a big story one day, when the Washington Post or New York Times discover it.
unbe-fucking-lieveable!
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That would sure be nice but it won't happen. The corp took a lot of the blame in their own IPET report which was released last summer and that never went BIG. UC Berkley and the American Society of Civil Engineers had their own reports that were rather harsh regarding the corp and that went no where either.
ReplyDeleteIt is a shame.
Hi honey,
ReplyDeletePalm Sunday, huh? Take a deep breath. It's going to get better and better and better.
I went through the moving thing in 2004, without the emotional baggage, and I thought I was going to lose it for real. You'll be fine. PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO SEND ME (ALL OF US)NEW ADDRESS, PHONE, E-MAIL, ETC.
Finally got my new computer. Hope that I can set up little photography business at last.
Love,
Dione
to anon at the top: Then keep posting and cross posting and passing this on to friends anyway possible. The MSM does read the big blogs and if the story is seen on enough of the big one as well as smaller ones, they just might catch on.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment, but don't lose hope.