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December 05, 2005
"largest civil engineering disaster in the history of the United States"
New Orleans' 17th Street Canal levee was doomed. This is something we've heard from more than one source, most recently from a native who swore she saw the pilings going down into the muck as easily as a hot knife through butter. Trouble is, we're not seeing widespread support for these facts (which are coming mostly out of the New Orleans' local paper). There was plenty of coverage during the storm - most of it bad (as some in the media later admitted). This story represents an opportunity to make amends for prior shortcomings - if only the press would take it!
"A meme that bears (and needs) repeating," mister snitch!, November 30, 2005
"This is the largest civil engineering disaster in the history of the United States. Nothing has come close to the $300 billion in damages and half-million people out of their homes and the lives lost," he [Robert Bea, a University of California, Berkeley professor who led a National Science Foundation investigation of the levee failures] said. "Nothing this big has ever happened before in civil engineering."
"17th Street Canal levee was doomed: Report blames corps: Soil could never hold," by Bob Marshall, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, November 30, 2005
Posted at December 5, 2005 10:26 AM | Categories: Stupidity
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