~The authority governing levees along the east bank of the Mississippi River on Thursday called on Congress to establish an "8/29 Commission" to conduct a comprehensive investigation of levee failures during Hurricane Katrina.
The resolution approved by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East was proposed by authority Secretary John Barry, also the author of "Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America."
Midwest Flood Victims: Feds Mislead Us About Levees
~Juli Parks didn't worry when water began creeping up the levee that shields this town of about 750 from the Mississippi River, not even when volunteers began piling on sandbags.
After all, local officials had assured townspeople in 1999 that the levee was sturdy enough to withstand a historic flood, and FEMA had agreed. In fact, some relieved homeowners dropped their flood insurance, and others applied for permits to build new houses and businesses.
The US Flood Epidemic: Nature or failing infrastructure?
~Sandy Rosenthal
Source Asks "What is the Real Water Policy of the United States?"~Georgianne Nienaber
Investigate the Levees
~John McQuaid
Iowa Flooding Could Be An Act of Man, Experts SayJune 18: A train sits idle on tracks along the MS River in Keokuk, Mo.,
as rising water from the river threatens to flood communities along its banks.
Photo: Joe Raedle -Getty Images
Editilla jus'axin~What's in those tank cars?
Find out why flood protection failed
"As a 1966 graduate of Des Moines North High School and perhaps one of the only living practicing civil engineers to have come from North High, I am deeply angered by the flooding of my high school. Given this breach of the flood-protection works, there must be a public investigation by an independent board of civil engineers and policy stakeholders."
- C. Gary Kellogg, B.S., M.S. (Iowa State University), Rochester, Minn. and Washington, D.C.
Please demand the 8/29 Commission
Account of New Orleans flooding, failures a warning to us
Drowning in Plenty
~Toulouse Street
MO Braces for Near- Record Mississippi River Crests
Flood Waters Move South Into Missouri~There doesn't seem to be an end to the flooding threat. Now Missouri is ground zero as flood waters move south along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and tributaries. The people of Clarksville, Missouri north of St. Louis are frantically trying to save their town from rising waters that are not expected to crest until Saturday.
The pride of Clarksville, Missouri is threatening to take out the entire town.
Government “Strike Teams” Invade Homes, Harass Flood Victims
Harkin Encourages Families Affected by Disaster to Seek Food Assistance~Hat T'nT~GN
Flooding levels stoke fears of levee~The Mississippi River flooding that engulfed Iowa and northern Illinois has local flood control officials on guard this week, just as new federal maps are released showing area levees don't meet new standards and could fail.
Old Man River~False-River
~"Old Man River - the mighty Mississippi River of course. I learned all I know about the river from my father, a civil engineer and a levee builder par excellence. My father, affectionately known in his retirement years as Paw Paw constantly watched the river. No, he did not go to the levee and look out on the river, he kept up with the river gauge readings at the key locations.
The key locations as far as he was concerned were at Cario, IL; Memphis, TN, Vicksburg, MS; Natchez, MS; Old River Landing in Pointe Coupee Parish, LA; Baton Rouge, LA and New Orleans, LA. Why are those key, well Cairo is where the Ohio meets or joins the Mississippi. It is the beginning of the lower Mississippi valley."
Editilla screama d'creama!
NEW ORLEANS? HAS ANYONE CHECKED ON THE 17TH STREET CANAL LEVEE LEAK???
PLEASE DO, TAKE PICTURES,
FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS.
HANG THE INFO HERE on'da LADDA,
OR ON YOUR BLOG (but do let us know, eh?)
Big Oyster say-Something Liquid This Way Comes
Bush to visit flood area
Pigs who swam through floodwaters killed on levee
~ Luck ran out for about a dozen pigs who escaped their flooded farm, swam through raging floodwaters and scrambled atop a sandbag levee in southeastern Iowa. Des Moines County sheriff's officials shot the pigs Tuesday, not long after they reached the levee several miles from the nearest hog farm.
Flooding over, but trash now problem in Iowa city
Crews ready to repair flood-damaged Indiana roadways
New Orleans Population Resettlement~All Points BlogStu Bykofsky: They've volunteered to rebuild New Orleans~"I helped a presidential candidate fix up a home at Roman and Piety streets in the Upper Ninth Ward on Tuesday."
First Disaster Reconstruction Trade Show Set for June 2009 in New Orleans
Are we smart or just some nuts compared to the military Junta of Burma?~Sit Mone
Gov. To Extend National Guard Stay In New Orleans
Jindal urges La. lawmakers 'to undo what they've done'~But he won't veto double Pay Raise Bill, he says. However...
recall petition requests show public anger.
Panama Canal Authority, Port of New Orleans renew alliance
New Orleans Team Returns To Solar Boat Race
On Julia's street: A writer finds happiness in New Orleans
11AM Drunk Driver on the Causeway
Fish Head Music~Wet Bank Guy
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