~As the nation saw all too clearly when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in 2005, at its worst, flawed Corps planning can have deadly consequences. Corps projects destroyed coastal wetlands that would have buffered Katrina’s storm surge, funneled and intensified that surge into New Orleans, and encouraged development in high-risk areas. With this stage set, the Corps sealed the city’s fate when it used flawed designs to build the levee and floodwall system that was supposed to protect the city — but clearly did not. Ongoing operation of Corps projects can also lead to devastating results.
~Rehberg Joins Congressional Levee Caucus, Asks for Answers from Army Corps of Engineer
LSU, engineering firm team up to study storm surge
~Nikki Buskey
Editilla has found WAVCIS a vital tool in following Heavy Weather.
Timely, thorough
and mashable.
Please watch this and go do the youtube vote-up/rate thingy!
~Hat Tweet~Levees.org
Alexandria City Council relunctantly approves $500,000 to study levee problem
Kicking the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal anthill… ~LaCoastPost~Len Bahr, a coastal adviser in Gov. Mike Foster’s administration, said that one way the Army Corps of Engineers might overcome near unanimous opposition from environmentalists to the lock project would be to reconfigure the design so that it isn’t merely a navigational project but one that also helps “mitigate the enormous environmental destruction caused by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet.”
The idea…would be to use the lock project to move a significant volume of river water and sediments to restore wetlands destroyed by the MR-GO. Bahr acknowledges it would be hard to get the necessary bureaucratic approvals from the corps, and perhaps Congress, but says the effort is worth it.~On The Hill
~Lake Pontchartrain with sediment from the Mississippi River via the Bonnet Carre Spillway, lower left only a few days after it was opened April 11th, 2008. Click pic to enlarge.Davis pushing for Northshore storm protection~Dave Cohen
Louisiana’s LIGO facility affected by Chile quake~Jordan Blum
Corps continues to shuffle commanders overseeing Dallas Trinity efforts
Feds will investigate why agencies lack information about condition of metro-east levees
~Top administrators for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have promised to investigate why their agencies lacked the information to support claims that metro-east flood levees should be de-certified.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Springfield, and U.S. Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Belleville, on Wednesday called on both FEMA and the Army Corps to produce the data leading to their determination that American Bottoms flood levees don't meet federal standards
~Use of Federal Water Projects for Municipal and Industrial Water Supply: Current Legal and Policy Issues Related to the Water Supply Act of 1958
Carly'Vu Do That Neo'Kat Jive!
~Editilla gotta Oxymoron who'z name is Carly'Vu!
Carl Rove's Memoir, if that ain't the Oxen'est Oxymoron of All!
It is getting harder to Hang Irony onto these Idiot Bastard Sons.
DoubleThink 101: To Lie Is Confessional. He admits His Ass!
This article's journalist, like so many in the Roll Out, have fallen prey to a insidious Level in Editilla's Disaster Shorthand Jive,
to wit that: A) proven pathological Liar Carl Rove's "Admissions" are anything other than more Lies. B) he and his gang of crackers were competent when they allowed us to Get Screwed on 9/11/01. C) he and his pack of looters were still competent when they allowed us to Get Screwed Again on 8/29/05. D) we won't even Pull that Train wreck of Other Uber- Failures for which Carly'Vu would never admit to remember.
What is it with these privileged people who did not see dead bodies floating in the water or dropping out of the sky?
Neo'Kat Short Hand Jive. This Porkest of Peccary Punkdom, code-named "Turd Blossum", is still trying to "Admit Lie" away his own Failure to Communicate which gave us 9/11: That Other Bad Time when he and his Posse let the country down most terribly. Carly'Vu and The Gang "simply weren't up to the challenges." Poor C'Vu still carries their Guilt Bad Meme from 9/11 to scare everyone into buying his Military Solutions to Man-Made Disaster in New Orleans. He wasn't there either btw.
Yawning gap mars Senate race ~James Gill
Oh! Hump Day! Do Get Slabbed!
Putting a Platitude it in the Grave~American Zombie
~Editilla gotta Ax~ Dat make dem'da Zombie Pundertaker?
Still a douchebag
~Library Chronicles
Congressman Joseph Cao commemorates Bloody Sunday
~Krewe of Truth
Google Bikes~Alex Woodward
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program frustrating, homeowners and contractors say
~David Hammer
Venison Heart Tartare
~Chichi Wang, Serious Eats
~Route 66 out my living room window, Polly JacksonEvent to Preserve Native Sites and Culture March 13
~Locust Fork News-Journal
~Hat Tweet~Facing South
Through a Glass Darkly: Crime Fiction as a Window on American Culture
~Dennis Palumbo
New center honors Percy
~The Advocate
INSPIRE - "Students Of Life" Wall~NOLA RISINGNew Orleans Zeitgeist~Five DC
Myanmar junta bars Aung San Suu Kyi's election participation~Myanmar's ruling junta announced Wednesday a new election law that disqualifies pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in upcoming national elections.
The Political Parties Registration Law, announced in state-run newspapers, excludes electoral participation by any member of a political party who has been convicted in court. A Myanmar court convicted Suu Kyi, 64, in August for breaching the terms of her house arrest after American John Yettaw swam uninvited to her lakeside house in Yangon and briefly stayed there. Her ongoing detention was extended to November 2010, and in February a court rejected her appeal.
Hundreds rounded up in Tibet crackdown
New, used instruments being collected for Haiti
Upcoming: Walter "Wolfman" Washington / Joe Krown / Russell Batiste @ Sullivan Hall tomorrow night~NolaFunkNYC
Jay Electronica Disguised His Voice To Avoid Hip-Hop Prejudice~Hearing the commanding voice of Jay Electronica on the microphone, one probably couldn't detect his New Orleans roots. Years ago, like many MCs from the South, Electronica experienced some hip-hop prejudice when people heard the Southern twang in his voice, so he started disguising it.
"I would go somewhere — I would go to an open mic and when they heard my accent and not understand what I'm saying, it would just be a door-closer," Jay told MTV UK on a recent trip to Europe. "I made a point in being able to speak in a certain way that I wouldn't get the door closed on me. All of these things make me who I am now, you know."
Peaches Records stays rooted in New Orleans music
~Kendrick Perkins, La Weekly
Percy Sledge, Atlanta Rhythm Section lined up for Alabama Music Hall of Fame
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