Floodwater from the Mississippi River flows past the St. Louis skyline. Photo-Jeff Roberson / APThe Floods: A Manmade Disaster?~Michael Grunwald~On March 4, three Midwestern University professors wrote to warn the Army Corps of Engineers that its concrete navigation structures in the Mississippi River were intensifying floods, and that its plans to build more wingdikes and weirs would "exacerbate a severe and growing problem."
They called some of the structures — designed to scour out the river's bottom so that barges could pass — "loaded cannons pointing at St. Louis and East St. Louis, waiting to go off in the next flood." Citing "clear and unequivocal data" from a dozen peer-reviewed articles, they declared that "the time to ask these questions is now, and not in the aftermath of the next great flood."
~The Army Corps, the troubled, gung-ho public works agency that bears much of the blame for leaving New Orleans underwater, blew off the academics' concerns.
"I refuse to argue one side or the other, and instead prefer to take the road which best ensures and protects public safety, no matter the course of action," Colonel Lewis F. Setliff, commander of the agency's St. Louis District, replied on March 31. "I am completely confident that the Corps of Engineers has done this with regard to the river structures to which you refer."
~Editilla hangs a nail~Jeez Louie!
Ya'put "Colonel" in front of the guy's name and he thinks it spells "Capo" and this is a congressional investigation: "I may know a guy...who has a cousin that hoi'd -in passing- as to the im'perpetrated impregnation to'wit regards coit'n infrastructure to which you infoy...I t'ink it was a guy named, Eddie." <--[not related:]
Army Corps: 'Trust us'
~The New Orleans Levee
~Official insists levees - like his rhetoric - 'more strong'Army Corps of Engineers Col. Jeffrey Bedey sees nothing wrong with portions of the New Orleans levee system held together with New Orleans Levee newspapers.
The Corps should have a report from the American Society of Civil Engineers in support of newspaper levees as soon as the Corps' check to the ASCE clears the bank.
(LEVEE PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/RUDY M. VORKAPIC)
~Editilla Creepillas Ass'wella!~
NOTE-the man's hands, the grip so tight, as if to restrain the right hand from telling us what the left hand
is really thinking! It wants its prrreeeccciiouuusssssss leveeeeee -a'fighting with himself, spectacles a'fog, teeth a'grit, heart a'ngioplacated...is that a blood-pressure wrap around his arm? Is that the 12 inch stare of a man who does not believe a forking word he's saying? Hmmm, Gentle'rillas want to know. And never let it be said that The New Orleans Levee can't hold water!
New Orleans, Lakeview, Gentilly
to Corps of Engineers:
to Corps of Engineers:
And BTW, has anyone checked that 17th Street Canal Levee Leak today?
Editilla'jus tolin'ya, Nola,
The Duck Stops Here!
Editilla'jus tolin'ya, Nola,
The Duck Stops Here!
Army Corps won't honor Pa.-NJ dredging agreement
~"And the Army Corps of Engineers is NOT the Engineers Corps, of which I was a member. The Engineers Corps built bridges and fought."
Pa/Del...Don't dredge me, BRO!
To prevent hurricane damage, build more land~Hat T'n'T-geology.com
Floods and droughts make mild diseases deadly
Clear Instance Of The Patriot Act Fraud Making Us Less Safe ~piglipstick
Andrea Mitchell did not challenge Republican Burr
~upon Asinine false assertion: "there wasn't a drop of oil that was spilled in the Gulf" due to Category 5 hurricanes.
~Editilla consuellas~Do reporters no longer call for comeuppance--but instead beg for comefacence? ...what?
Sodden, crumbling levee protects Missouri town
~James Burt sits on an embankment near a neighborhood inundated with floodwaters in Winfield, Missouri.
Midwestern downpours keep Missouri, Illinois residents out of homes
Iowa, Wisconsin Libraries Bear Brunt of Floods
Permits required to make repairs in wake of flood
~Clinton County officials are reminding residents living in the flood plain that a Flood Plain Development permit is required before repairs are made to properties located in the flood plain. A State of Iowa flood plain permit may also be required.
Nationwide asks to sell flood coverage
Special Report: After the flood
~Industrial distributors have been busy responding to the flooding in the Midwest in the last two weeks. Though the situation has changed from emergency to cleanup, distributors large and small alike continue to respond to the need for safety supplies, tools, generators and maintenance products as businesses and residents recover from the damage.
Flood, Sweat, and a Good Trout Mousse~Grist
~Iowa's chefs and their farmer-suppliers get busy recovering from disaster
New Orleanians Help Flood Victims
New Orleans Repairing Its Levee System~Milota Sidorova
Weather has been always the wild, black horse, too smart to get caught. Its sinister volatility and unpredictability, typical for past few years calls on the red alert. First it was Myanmar tragedy, then the Olympic antilogy victim China, now the world’s press is overpowered by the flood cause in the U.S. It seems, that somehow we have got used to hear the death tolls from there and over there. But an interesting reading for one means life strike for another. However it is, it’s always good to hear some news about technology progress, method, political movements, or even a system of measuring enabling to protect people in advance.
Last news from New Orleans, Louisiana refers that the city Congress fell into rescue aid system, giving the local research center, Corps of Engineers almost $5,7 billion. Indeed, it was New Orleans wasted terrific hurricane Katrina in 2005. People haven’t forgot about it.
Louise and June, Magazine and Seventh~SlimbolalaTHE ETHICS BOARD IS IN SHAMBLES~HOW WILL JINDAL'S GOLD STANDARD OPERATE NOW?
~Central La. POLITICS
Train in Vain
Rio Grande Valley Families to Fight the Border Wall in New Orleans
Chief Executive Officer New Orleans Eco Design & Industry Park
New Orleans to use biodiesel in buses
Dispatch from New Orleans: From the ground up~LA Times
Recovery and Looking Forward
~Peter Wallace
The Elektrik Zoo Moves to New Orleans
Siblings lead Israeli jazz vanguard
Dr. Michael White
~John Swenson, offbeat
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