Report: Levees Won't Save New Orleans in Extreme Events
Texas / South Central News • April 27, 2009
Levees and floodwalls surrounding New Orleans - no matter how large or sturdy - cannot provide absolute protection against overtopping or failure in extreme events, according to a new report by ...
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Subject: RE: RE: We won't leave no matter what....FEMA PAY FOR US!
Posted On: April 29, 2009, 7:42 am CDT
Posted By: crescentCityRay
Comment:
Are you insurance people? This article left out an important finding and recommendation that I would have thought would be especially important to a group of insurance people.
The Science Panel's report agreed with IPET findings that the outfall canal floodwalls fell down long before even being overtopped by storm surge water because of engineering mistakes made by the US Army Corps of Engineers. It was an engineering catastrophe - a man made disaster. It was totally preventable.
70% of us had flood insurance, but it wasn't enough for what the Corps did to us. 90% of our metro area evacuated before the storm's arrival.
The most important recommendation was that the US Army Corps of Engineers reform to the extent that they would at least accept some small form of oversight from local government engineers, like the ability to review Corp designs of our flood control structures.
The report said New Orleans should get a storm surge protection system to protect from a higher storm surge than what is expected during a storm with a 1 in a 100 chance of hitting in any given year, as is the current plan.
Please be fair in your reporting about our man made disaster in New Orleans.
Regarding the report's elevation recommendations and smaller footprint idea. Isn't it irrelevant for them to say what we should have done? Families that were flood victims only had one shot at recovery. The Road Home Program is almost finished. Moronically, RHP is giving out elevation money last. Who could afford to wait this long? We already rebuilt. We did the best we could with what we had and built smaller, stronger and above the flood line.
Subject: RE: RE: We won't leave no matter what....FEMA PAY FOR US!
The Science Panel's report agreed with IPET findings that the outfall canal floodwalls fell down long before even being overtopped by storm surge water because of engineering mistakes made by the US Army Corps of Engineers. It was an engineering catastrophe - a man made disaster. It was totally preventable.
70% of us had flood insurance, but it wasn't enough for what the Corps did to us. 90% of our metro area evacuated before the storm's arrival.
The most important recommendation was that the US Army Corps of Engineers reform to the extent that they would at least accept some small form of oversight from local government engineers, like the ability to review Corp designs of our flood control structures.
The report said New Orleans should get a storm surge protection system to protect from a higher storm surge than what is expected during a storm with a 1 in a 100 chance of hitting in any given year, as is the current plan.
Please be fair in your reporting about our man made disaster in New Orleans.
Regarding the report's elevation recommendations and smaller footprint idea. Isn't it irrelevant for them to say what we should have done? Families that were flood victims only had one shot at recovery. The Road Home Program is almost finished. Moronically, RHP is giving out elevation money last. Who could afford to wait this long? We already rebuilt. We did the best we could with what we had and built smaller, stronger and above the flood line.