MSNBC: FEMA Deputy Director says some NO levees likely to be breached

[brooklynite]

Probable chance of flooding.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. They're worried about the levees in SW NOLA that held in Katrina...

They've been ignored since then (i.e. unimproved)...

[SoCalDem]

7. and THATS why they came IN FORCE before ..and why the big evacuation

They knew ahead of time that ANY storm of any size might flood the whole place again..and they wanted no bodies this time.. bad pr in an election year..:grr:

The gambled that storms might miss NOLA until they were out of office..

[tannybogus]

2. That settles it!

They will probably all wash away!!

Oops! I read it as no too.

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. The bastards

could have had these levies fixed permanently by now, but chose instead to spend money on machines of war and on the occupation of a sovereign country and the theft of its oil.

[SoCalDem]

4. Odd. the weather guy at the weather Channel said JUST the opposite..not 5 minutes ago

He said that "some" levees on the west side of NOLA WILL most likely be "breached"..

he said it is such a ho-hum no biggie tone of voice too (the FEMA guy)

[SoCalDem]

5. Oops. I read NO as No..sorry

:)

[malaise]

6. The US should stop claiming to be the greatest country in the world

Some countries actually build modern levies
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[SoCalDem]

8. but but but.. those socialist countries give health care & free college & old age pensions

and have great mass transit, and give paid year-long maternity & paternity leave, and have unemployment benefits for as long as you are unemployed.. and stuff like that..

we would NEVER want to be like those socialist bastards, not would we??

[Rhiannon12866]

10. I've been to Russia and you're right on all counts, LOL.

But what is difficult is finding a place to live. They need to find a place to live, first, since finding a job is a given. People wait years, live generations in apartments (though grandparents are very handy, meet the kids at school and look after them when the working parents are working, also have extensive after school programs and everybody there, below a certain age, learns English...), waiting for the next "five year plan" and new buildings, which well start deteriorating in just a few years, since they were put up way too fast...:scared:

I always expected to return to the USSR, where I felt very safe. But I'm not planning on returning anytime soon, since it is much too scary there, especially now...:scared:

[Orsino]

9. That's not true.

No one could have anticipated the breach of the levees.

Stay strong, Louisiana. :grouphug:

[amuse bouche]

11. They are especially worried about private levees