The latest comedy of errors that no one is mentioning is our brilliant Corps of Engineers has decided to install flood gates to place in front of the 17th Street Canal that were breached by the storm surge. The pumps presently in place pump approximately 10,000 cubic feet of water per minute out into Lake Pontchtrain mostly from places like Old Metaire in all the years before this storm had never flooded. If you look at the flood maps you will find it is above sea level. They are replacing that pump with temporary pumps that pump around 2,000 cubic feet of water per minute and building a levy around a play ground saying this will hold all of the water. There are going to make sure that all the areas that didn’t flood before will most assuredly flood. If we get hit by another storm especially if it is a slow moving storm such as tropical storm that has a lot of rain we will be swimming for our lives. I am not an engineer but common sense would tell anyone with half a brain that you dam up a canal you better figure out what to do the water that drains there and you don't replace it with 75% less pumping capacity. The Corps of Engineers has tried to give us comfort by assuring us the levy system will be back to the same supposed category three status before Katrina. But wait a minute, didn’t the levies fail during Katrina because of poor workmanship and quality. So, they are going to bring the quality level back up to where they failed before, go figure. What they don't tell you is on the !7th Canal the west side was very close to breeching and would have breeched if the east side had not breeched first. My Dad used to tell me sometimes boy if you had a brain you would be dangerous. If that saying doesn't fit this situation, I don't know what does. All across American all the tax paying citizens should be up in arms about this whole mess because it is all your money that is being wasted because we here in Louisiana don't have any left. I will close with saying please do not blame the citizens of Louisiana for this debacle because we were lied to by our wonderful government. Just remember this, next time it could be your town.

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Our president said that the levies would be back to pre-Katrina levels by today; another lie. And did anyone mention that the pre-Katrina levies failed?

I'm growing more and more fond of this anchorman . . . he was the only journalist who saw the value of reporting the news of Bono in Africa, and now New Orleans. Many of us are contributing to the world of musicrising.org, getting instruments back into the hands of musicians, churches, and schools. These are are all issues that are important to me. Thank him for this for me please.