XXXXX Them to Hell! New Katrina Video

They lied through their teeth, Noodle. Bush whined on and on that no one thought the levees would fail. This new video shows him being warned in no uncertain terms that this was likely to happen.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by marichiko

They lied through their teeth, Noodle. Bush whined on and on that no one thought the levees would fail. This new video shows him being warned in no uncertain terms that this was likely to happen.

I think the reflex Bush-haters are making a lot of hay here by ignoring the difference between "overrun" and "breached".

"Overrun" to me suggests waves washing over the top of a levy due to storm surge (with the water able to drain away), contrasted with a levy being *breached*, a total mechanical failure with the levy no longer holding back the waters it contained before the storm, obviously a much more severe problem.

As the newsletter editor of the Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club, I've had occasion this week to review the club archives regarding their emergency operations in the Delaware Valley during the flooding associated with Hurricane Diane in August of 1955. That storm is of particular interest to me because I remeber it quite well: I was three years old and living in New Hope PA at the time...so it left quite an impression to be persisting fifty years later.

With that for comparison, I'll keep my own counsel as to who I think is "whining" today.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I remember that storm very well, too, Maggie. It torn up New England pretty well.
When the 30 ft wide, 2 foot deep Scantic River became a half mile wide and took out the only bridge to get off our mountain, it took the Army three weeks to come and put up a Bailey bridge.
I thought that was pretty damn good considering we were just less than 100 people in no danger, we even had power, just couldn't go to work.
Meanwhile the cities and towns along the Conneticut River were really fucked up and hundreds of bridges, all over the map, were gone.
I liked Ike.