Dead = 1,577
The death toll in Louisiana from Hurricane Katrina was officially raised to 1,577. No outrage, no headline news stories, and no response. 1,577 of our neighbors, friends and family members are gone, and most of America cares only for the search for Jimmy Hoffa or bogus border issues. Where are the criminal charges against those engineers responsible for the design and construction of the floodwalls? Where is the money and planning and engineering to make sure that the levee system is redesigned so this does not happen again? Where are the civil suits against the responsible engineering design firms? Where are the 6,000 National Guard troops that could be working on rebuilding New Orleans infrastructure instead of standing in an empty desert? And more imporantly, where are the responsible journalists that should be pressing these important questions?
posted by I. D. Reilly @ 8:22 AM
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4 Comments:
It was on CNN this morning, in the context of the election.
So the engineers should be held responsible for water going over a levee? Are you serious? Anyone with the intelligence of a retarded clam knows that no levee is foolproof. If the water gets high enough, it will spill over and fail. Perhaps if the people who were warned in plenty of time to get out of town would have in fact gotten out of town, there would have been fewer deaths.
Anonymous, who built those levees? They have no responsibility? A retarded clam that lived along those levees could tell you a thing or two or maybe not.
In the most serious case the water did not go over the top. The levees failed without the water going over the top the levees.
What kind of engineer would design levees which cannot withstand water to the top of the levee?
Unfortunately the Corps is probably immune from suit and the consulting engineers would have nowhere near enough assets to pay any significant damages.
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