Some post Isaac analysis on one of the essential New Orleans blogs, "Fix the Pumps". Yipes. In short, nope things ain't fixed yet, some preventable serious close calls, and if you think of the Surge & Watabode as bumbling, the ACOE who we now rely on to keep from flooding make the S&WB look like Nobel Prize winners.

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As you might have heard from the news, the Army Corps of Engineers has opened the Morganza Spillway to divert much of the high water on the Mississippi River into the Atchafalya Basin ( Read more... )

Recent Ruling Shows True Tragedy of Katrina was Federal Government's Creation of the Disaster Itself. HuffingtonPost article by Sandy Rosenthal. You might have heard the story before, but might have missed some of the juicy details here.

Thailand is 'in network'? Employers and insurers embrace medical tourism. DailyFinance article on more U.S. ( Read more... )

Some background to illustrate a point relevent to my previous post.

New Orleans hundreds of years of history has multiple examples of floods from semi-tropical downpours, hurricanes, and levee failures.


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"It has been proven in a court of law that the drowning of New Orleans was not a natural disaster, but a preventable man-made travesty," the attorneys said in a statement. "The government has always had a moral obligation to rebuild New Orleans. This decision makes that obligation a matter of legal responsibility." -- CNN storyHere in Greater New ( Read more... )

The words "levee break" and news footage of cities under water certainly has a dread familiarity for those of us greater New Orleans. Our hearts go out to our countrymen in the Mid-West.


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My home, an old raised one, is fine, but we're getting flooding here in New Orleans. This happens when the rain dumps more water more rapidly than the pumping system can drain out ( Read more... )

Bah. I brought in the furniture & small acoutrements from my yard, and tied down things that needed such in the rain this afternoon, since there isn't likely to be any time when it isn't raining til after Isadore is gone. It'll probably be worse tomorrow ( Read more... )