For anyone who wonders why New Orleanians worry about what the Corps of Engineers is doing in the "rebuilding" of the levee-floodwall system -- now renamed the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System -- AP's Cain Burdeau gets the money quote of the year:
"On the East Bank, they had a complete system that failed. On the West Bank, we didn't have a complete system to fail," said Jerry Spohrer, a levee manager on the West Bank.
Yeah, you're right.
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Harry Shearer: New Orleans: The Corps Defends the Future
I'm preparing to make a documentary film on the causes of the flooding of New Orleans, and so I decided to attend one of the community outreach meetings the Corps of Engineers holds.
