On the effects of budget cuts for flood prevention

[nancylebov]

I've read somewhere--probably two or three somewheres--that the Bush cuts for flood prevention pretty much hadn't taken effect as of Katrina, but marykaykare has asked for urls, and I can't find them. Did I hallucinate those claims?

For the record, cutting the budget for flood prevention has been proven to be a bad idea.

I've also seen a claim that the budget for levy maintenance had been cut. This is a separate subject from building new flood prevention projects.

I'm betting that forensics on the levees that broke will be genuinely not feasible--at least one of the levees that broke was a new one, but I'm expecting that a lot of the evidence has been lost in the flood and the rebuilding.

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The whitehouse.gov site has a neat chart

[(Anonymous)]

on how much they saved us on the Corp of Engineers. Google Corp of Engineers and whitehouse.gov and you should be able to find it.

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[kateyule.livejournal.com]

Commenting here because I don't want to SEE behind the curtain on your previous post:

Please don't do spoilers. Just don't. Not for a lot longer than a month after publication.

I'm intense about this. There's only ONE TIME EVER that I can see a movie (or read a book) "naive", as it were, and have the story unfold one - frame - at - a - time the way the makers so carefully prepared it. Don't steal that one opportunity from me.

And it takes surprisingly little to be a spoiler. Show me a preview with an astonished actress welcoming her true love home in a red dress, and the minute that dress shows up all suspense is lost. All it takes is one Toys R Us ad for "Darth Blarg with exploding head!", and the whole movie we're waiting for the Kaboom.

Just because I didn't read the book the month it came out doesn't mean I don't care. There are a LOT of books on that stack!

My 2c. Thanks.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Not what you were looking for, and awfully depressing, but have you seen this one? www.livejournal.com/users/timiathan/180717.html

Also, check out osewalrus.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Falls Creek has been put on hold.

I recently put osewalrus on my friends list. I wish all of us didn't have so much to be ose about.

What do you and the gamers you know think the administration is up to, if anything? I can kind of understand how a corrupt and stupid administration could lose a major port out of sheer sloppiness, but I am hard put to find a human motivation for refusing help for refugees.

You can't fool...

[nwl.livejournal.com]

You can put up all the levees you want, but considering the massive amounts of wetlands that were destroyed to make the dry land, it was just a matter of time. The wetlands were part of the natural defenses for keeping the land dry. There is only so much man can do; the Mississippi also flooded its banks every year as part of the nature of the river. Once you began to mess up the natural rhythm of an ecosystem, well, it's not pretty.

People need to think about IF something should be done, not CAN something be done. Can you say "global warming?"