I think that you're mistaken about that. The city of New Orleans has an "Orleans Levee District" that is responsible for maintaining and repairing the levees. Apparently, they have a multi-million dollar annual budget that has gone into marinas, an airport, and a floating casino. They were heavily criticized after the New Orleans flood for neglecting their "primary mission" for decades, while pursuing tangential (or unrelated) projects.
... but it was the Army Corps of Engineers' job to maintain them... Of course, possibly if they had the funds to do so... but I heard on Harry Shearer's program that they had been, and this is not a joke, in some points, fixed using NEWSPAPER.
I don't see a point in blaming the army corp of engineers. 500km of levees were built in the 1960's and people were proud of the work when it was done. This work was done in response to numerous floods that had occurred at the time. However animals can burrow into the dirt, weeds and trees can grow on the slopes, and rain can erode and weaken the levees. Levees need maintenance and attention, continuously, if it's something that you want to rely on.- John McQuaid co-authored a series of articles in the The Times-Picayune, which is New Orleans' main newspaper. These articles described the levee system's increasing vulnerability -- how it could no longer protect against anything as big as a category 3 hurricane. Most people who lived in New Orleans were aware that this was a risk. Most people, though, hoped that it was a relatively remote risk, and decided to let the good times roll... and deal with it when it happens.-... apparently by blaming anyone they can think of.
How would being godless create misery?-Some people are trapped by circumstances. Imagine living in New Orleans. One weekend in August, your city gets flooded. The whole thing, churches, shopping centres, houses, police stations, hospitals, the lot. Then you are trapped in a football stadium turned refuge for ten days, all in together, few working toilets,(if at all) gangs, disease, and rape rife, When the water subsides, everything is rotten and mouldy. There are uncounted numbers of bodies rotting in the streets. You suddenly have nothing, lost your house, your car, your job and in most cases, your neighborhood, your friends. Now if this happened to ONE person, it would be far easier for them to start again. But with so many thousands homeless, and then put into formaldehyde ridden mobile homes... It makes anonymous bitching on how the victims complain sound rather hollow dont you think?
Let's see: New Orleans was protected by levee banks and mangrove swamps. Intact, they work. However, the levee banks were not maintained properly, and the mangrove swamps were drained and built on. This is the fault of successive governments, federal, state and local.
I think that you're mistaken about that. The city of New Orleans has an "Orleans Levee District" that is responsible for maintaining and repairing the levees. Apparently, they have a multi-million dollar annual budget that has gone into marinas, an airport, and a floating casino. They were heavily criticized after the New Orleans flood for neglecting their "primary mission" for decades, while pursuing tangential (or unrelated) projects.
This video is rubbish.
... but it was the Army Corps of Engineers' job to maintain them... Of course, possibly if they had the funds to do so... but I heard on Harry Shearer's program that they had been, and this is not a joke, in some points, fixed using NEWSPAPER.
I don't see a point in blaming the army corp of engineers. 500km of levees were built in the 1960's and people were proud of the work when it was done. This work was done in response to numerous floods that had occurred at the time. However animals can burrow into the dirt, weeds and trees can grow on the slopes, and rain can erode and weaken the levees. Levees need maintenance and attention, continuously, if it's something that you want to rely on.- John McQuaid co-authored a series of articles in the The Times-Picayune, which is New Orleans' main newspaper. These articles described the levee system's increasing vulnerability -- how it could no longer protect against anything as big as a category 3 hurricane. Most people who lived in New Orleans were aware that this was a risk. Most people, though, hoped that it was a relatively remote risk, and decided to let the good times roll... and deal with it when it happens.-... apparently by blaming anyone they can think of.
How would being godless create misery?-Some people are trapped by circumstances. Imagine living in New Orleans. One weekend in August, your city gets flooded. The whole thing, churches, shopping centres, houses, police stations, hospitals, the lot. Then you are trapped in a football stadium turned refuge for ten days, all in together, few working toilets,(if at all) gangs, disease, and rape rife, When the water subsides, everything is rotten and mouldy. There are uncounted numbers of bodies rotting in the streets. You suddenly have nothing, lost your house, your car, your job and in most cases, your neighborhood, your friends. Now if this happened to ONE person, it would be far easier for them to start again. But with so many thousands homeless, and then put into formaldehyde ridden mobile homes... It makes anonymous bitching on how the victims complain sound rather hollow dont you think?
Let's see: New Orleans was protected by levee banks and mangrove swamps. Intact, they work. However, the levee banks were not maintained properly, and the mangrove swamps were drained and built on. This is the fault of successive governments, federal, state and local.