New Orleans is dry (3)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-10-13 17:20 ID:RQWvDJqT

http://www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/afx/2005/10/13/afx2275889.html
"NEW ORLEANS, LA (AFX) - New Orleans is dry, US Army engineers said after pumping almost a quarter of a trillion gallons of water from the storm-soaked city."

"It took 43 days of around-the-clock work to patch broken levees and pump out flood water left by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the corps reported."

2 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-10-13 17:22 ID:RQWvDJqT

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-4/112918402774430.xml
"The Army Corps of Engineers is planning to repair New Orleans area levee breaches caused by Hurricane Katrina with fortified walls much stronger than the originals, design documents show.

Where some floodwalls -- consisting of a concrete section mounted on a steel base -- collapsed, the corps wants bulkier concrete walls and significantly deeper steel anchors reinforced with concrete piles."

""At this time, we haven't fully understood the failure mechanisms at all of these locations," said Walter Baumy, chief of the engineering division of the corps' New Orleans district"

3 Name: Unverified Source 2005-10-14 14:41 ID:jRCZXs23

Last I heard, the Army Corps of Engineers didn't have the budget to rebuild levees able to resist anything stronger than a Cat 3 hurricane, just like before Katrina.

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