Saw this on another board...Lake George

[TexasLady]

from the sdome thread(dont know where this link is at,so sorry)hopefully not posted....


Lake George
Submitted by Sussel on Wed, 2005-09-07 12:48. Media

Wonkette says that federal bureaucrats angry over the funding cuts for levee projects and related anti-flood programs in New Orleans have come up with a name for the mess down there: Lake George.

And she had email from "a friend at the EPA." If this can be verfied, it will show that the Iraq-related slowdown in federal levee work is directly related to the breach that caused the flooding that has killed at least hundreds. Here´s what her federal source reports:

We´re naming it Lake George, ´cause it´s his frickin fault. Have you seen all that data about the levee projects´ funding being cut over the past three years by the Prez, and the funding transferred to Iraq? The levee, as designed, might not have held back the surge from a direct Class 5 hit, but it certainly would not have crumbled on Monday night from saturation and scour erosion following a glancing blow from a Class 3. The failure was in a spot that had just been rebuilt, not yet compacted, not planted, and not armed (hardened with rock/concrete). The project should have been done two years ago, but the federal gov´t diverted 80% of the funding to Iraq. Other areas had settled by a few feet from their design specs, and the money to repair them was diverted to Iraq.

[brook]

1. That's too bad.

There's a beautiful Lake George in NY State. Wish they's call it Lake W instead.