skippy the bush kangaroo

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

oh boy...

not good.
despite more than $22 million in repairs, a levee that broke with catastrophic effect during hurricane katrina is leaking again because of the mushy ground on which new orleans was built, raising serious questions about the reliability of the city's flood defenses.

outside engineering experts who have studied the project told the associated press that the type of seepage spotted at the 17th street canal in the lakeview neighborhood afflicts other new orleans levees, too, and could cause some of them to collapse during a storm. - ap

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1 Comments:

Fun fact: Katrina never topped the levees. They broke on their own due to the same structural weaknesses highlighted here.
commented by Blogger Jim, 7:04 PM PDT  

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