yeah, there was a study that was issued in 2003 that said the levees could not sustain over a category 3 hurricane. but the bush adminstration called the report "highly questionable."
i really really really hope that the adminstration comes under serious fire and review for this. at least that should come out of this tragedy.
Well duh, that's kinda the point of my post. This same problem has been the result of most (but not all) of the major people-killing disasters of recent memory. I can say I hope it'll change, but it won't. People will die, and the beancounters won't care.
Very well spoken m'lady. You'd be surprised how many wood houses are built with very small margins of safety (less then 20% normal operating capacity) It sucks to be living in one, but I fear most people probably are.
Unless I'm misunderstanding the geology of the area, this goes back to the biblical "he who built his house upon the sand". They built on ground that would shift and settle, and so it did exactly that. My understanding is that the area is very literally the historical mississippi floodplain, before the river moved (as rivers do on the geological timescale) and is largely composed of silt and wet clay.
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i really really really hope that the adminstration comes under serious fire and review for this. at least that should come out of this tragedy.
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