Re: Is New Orleans finished ?



Pooh Bear wrote: 
Fred Bloggs wrote:


bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> Precisely as morbidly funny as the levees that were too steep and
> thin to withstand the storm surge against which they were supposed to
>  protect the city.

The levees were not "too steep and thin"- they had been damaged by ship
collisions in that damned Industrial Canal which joins the Mississippi
River to the west with Lake Pontratrain(sp?) on the east. It was the
industrial canal levee that failed.



Which is critical to US international trade in that it's an important part
of the overall transport infrastructure.

Shame that it wasn't given due attention - esp as the Corps of Engineers
were apparently aware it was compromised !

That's very true-and there will be a Congressional investigation. They knew damage was being done, but not the extent. It was enough to justify many millions of dollars on a portable anchoring system for the ships to prevent further occurrences.




Don't make me remind you of all the
civil engineering feats accomplished by Americans where the Europeans
had failed...Panama Canal, Burma Road, Alaska Highway, major
contributions to the Chunnel, Brooklyn Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge,...



You're claiming that Americans dug the Channel Tunnel too ?

Bwahahahahaha !

More than a few American firms provided engineering expertise, services, and products to make that happen. And to think, it was not a 100 years earlier, and you people were still struggling with how to tunnel the Thames:-)


I guess you missed the story about the Burma Railway. 

No- what about it...


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