Thicker Than Water?

It is an appalling disgrace and most shamefull the YEARS after the appalling, Governmentally CREATED disgrace of "Katrina Disaster" these jokers STILL can't get it together. Obviously, the interests of the oil and chemical companies are the ONLY thing the Army Core considers when deciding how and what to repair. Plain evil.

When will the media finally realize there there is more to Louisiana than just New Orleans. I live in Baton Rouge and we have suffered a lot of damage. People are still without power, some will be for weeks. There is flooding that has begun. It looks like a bomb has gone off. There is not a street that does not have a house with a tree on it or some sort of damage. But no, the media is too concerned with a city and a storm that happened three years ago. I am so very proud New Orleans came out of this unscathed, but what will it take for the media to realize there are people suffering all over Louisiana at this very moment. I guess we are not a sensational news story as we are not on top of our houses, looting, or whatever it takes to get some national attention. But come on media, what is the problem?

I live south of Baton Rouge. We just got power. The area took a big hit. Donaldsonville, Thibodeaux, Houma, the whole area took a big hit. All you hear about are the levees in New Orleans. Maybe we should be crying about no one coming to get us, or we need to start vandilizing stores or shooting at the National Guard when they come to help us so we can get the attention that New Orleans gets. Maybe the problem is we're not the murder capital of the United States like New Orleans.
The real problem is we are hard working people who need help in the wake of a natural disaster and the national media seems to be fixated on one city.

The media is a bunch of wimps for not reporting in the mist of a massive disaster in BAton Rouge. basketball is right on. I have an 80 unit apartment in Baton Rouge will millions in damage, no power, no water and we are sending the tenants to the shelters. Gas stations have no power, generators cant power the pumps. Fema sends supplies by mistake to Texas instead of Louisiana and no tarps or supplies to be found. Sewers are backing up into peoples houses. George Bush showed up in BAton Rouge, but where is the rest of the team?????

I agree with you Underdog. I live in a small town in Louisiana. There are several people in Louisiana that have suffered just as much as the people in New Orleans. During Rita several parishes in Louisiana and Mississippi were wiped out and got very little media coverage. In the litte town where I live we were without power for nine days after Rita. Everything in my freezer and refigerator ruined. Yet it was not mandatory for us to leave so in the end we received no financial support from anyone. I am sick of hearing about New Orleans too. I wish the media would talk about the other people in the state of Louisiana and Mississippi that suffered too. The town of Alexandria, Lousiana received tremendous damage from hurricane Gustav. Some people living there still do not have lights and some of the schools are hoping to be able to open Monday. They showed on the local news today the teachers mopping up the water and trying to clean up. Most of their books and other supplies are ruined. But you don't see any of that on Fox or CNN all they talk about is New Orleans.

I live in Louisiana and I'm sick of hearing about the levees, the ninth ward and New Orleans. Katrina wiped out other areas of Louisiana besides the ninth ward.o r New Orleans but you would never know that based on the one dimensional coverage given to Katrina damage. Gustav wiped out parts the parishes north east of New Orleans but what is the coverage, New Orleans and the levees. Parts ot the city are built in a hole, and they want Federal tax dollars to continue to live in a hole. To buy votes politicians will be happy to spend tax dollars to rebuild the levees. And make no mistake, the ninth ward had become the democrats tax farm. Voters raised on government dollars to vote Democrat.

The simple truth is the dutch know more about levees than anyone else in world. Why aren't we listening to them?

The simple truth is the dutch know more about levees than anyone else in the world. Why aren't we listening to them?

I don't believe anything written in Newsweek anymore.

There has been a lot of confussion about the floodwalls that were struck by vessels that broke free from their mooring during Hurricane Gustav. The damage to those floodwalls does NOT in any way compromise the protection of New Orleans neighborhoods.

The floodwalls in question are owned by the Port of New Orleans and protect only our wharves and industrial properties on France Road that are outside of the federal levee protection system. The federal levee system that protects the city is located on the other side of France Road, several hundred feet behind the Port of New Orleans floodwall.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers does not rely on Port of New Orleans floodwalls to protect the city. The damage to the Port of New Orleans floodwall does not compromise the federal flood protection system that protects neighborhoods in any way because the two systems are separate and redundant.

Chris Bonura
Communications Manager
Port of New Orleans
bonurac@portno.com

Sinis, is that your name or where the material that makes up your grey matter is made? I can tell you are of little historical knowledge or cultural influence. The birth place of jazz, the home of the worlds best tasting food and people who love 'passing a good time'. Really, what more could you ask for? Come out from under your rock and visit. I'll buy the first round and the bowl of gumbo.

There has been a lot of confussion about the floodwalls that were struck by vessels in the Industrial Canal. This damage does not in any way compromise the flood protection system that protects the neighborhoods of New Orelans.

The floodwalls that were struck are owned by the Port of New Orleans and protect only port wharves and industrial property. The floodwalls are located between the waterway and the federal levee system that protects the city and are located along France Road.

If the Port's floodwalls are damaged, the city continues to be protected by the federal Levee system. The Corps of Engineers does not rely on the Port's internal floodwalls to keep the city safe. They are totally separate and redundant systems.

Chris Bonura
Communications Manager
Port of New Orleans
504-528-3222

Sinis, is that a name or where the material that makes up your grey matter comes from? You obviously have no soul, heart, ears or taste buds. It is comments like that that keep the fire burning inside the rest of us to ensure New Orleans remains vibrant. Please climb out from under your rock and come pass a good time in the Quater. I'll buy the first round and the gumbo.

Sinis, How much federal money has been poured into Sarah Palin's Alaska or water projects in the desert Southwest? What about the 20-30 million who live in Earthquake Central in California where there is a 90+ percent chance of a major earthquake in the next 30 years? What about the wildfires that keep ravaging parts of the West? New Orleans was not built in a hole. Much of the city (about half) is at or above sea level. The areas that are below sea level subsided over time. Your ignorance is amazing. South Louisiana produces about 25% of the nation's domestic oil and contains half of the nation's refining capabilities. Also, the Ports of New Orleans and South Louisiana are two of the busiest in the country (Do you drink coffee? If so, there's a good chance it comes through New Orleans). My home in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans sits at the roughly the same elevation as Lower Manhattan. Some of us like living in a place where there is more to do than go to a strip mall and eat at Olive Garden. It is riskier to stay here, but we do pay taxes on levee maintenance and higher insurance and utility costs. Sounds like you're the one living in a hole.

Apologies for the double post didn't get a posting confirmation first time around.

What is sickening is that a city built in a hole and being rebuilt in the same hole with billions of NATIONAL taxpayer dollars being spent to strengthen levees that cannot possibly hold to a category 4 or 5 storm. The government may as well just light a bonfire of cash on the White House south lawn. It would be just as productive.

What is sickening is that a city placed in a hole that no matter how much money is spent strengthening the levees will flood again and again. Might as well have the government just light a great big bonfire of cash. It will do just as much good.