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"While we're making it much better and stronger than it was before, it's still not ultimate protection for the city of New Orleans."
Dan Hitchings
Director, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Task Force Hope
As NBC News gears up for the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we're interviewing several officials who play key roles in the ongoing recovery. I recently spoke to Dan Hitchings, the director of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Task Force Hope, who is heading up efforts to repair New Orleans' damaged levees. We discussed the progress at the three sites where the Army is trying to strengthen flood walls, install flood gates and prepare pumping stations. In the year since the levees breached, the Corps has been dogged by questions about their original design. Hitchings reassures residents that the flood protection plan has been improved, but warns the system is still not strong enough.
Photo caption: Dan Hitchings talks to Steve about the levees. Courtesy of NBC News.
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George Bush, 2005: "We must be ready."
George Bush, 2006: "I also want people to remember that a one-year anniversary is just that, because it’s going to require a long time to help these people rebuild.”
Does he even take himself seriously? What a poser!
(Sent Aug 23, 2006 12:57:27 PM)
The Katrina thing is a disaster! Why is it that America can rush in and go like mad repairing every where else on this planet at a moment's notice, but has taken a year - and still is woefully behind - in rebuilding one of its own cities? It's more than disturbing, it's outrageous. Might be because we don't have to try to 'buy' one of our own as we seem to be intent on doing throughout the rest of the world? Why are our tax dollars at work everywhere else on this planet and not here at home? Someone needs to tune into America's needs for a change - and they are many - and immediate!
Pat Murphy, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Sent Aug 23, 2006 9:48:55 AM)
Thanks for another thought-provoking post. I hope this isn't too much of a stretch regarding staying on topic, but I watched Parts 1 and 2 of Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in 4 Acts" last night, and it's extremely moving. I'm looking forward to seeing Parts 3 and 4 tonight. I'd say who it should be required viewing for, but I doubt they'd watch it.
I find intriguing how some believe New Orlean's levees had been blown up, as shown in Spike lee's film--while for me this strains credulity, I can see (based on such historical examples as Louisiana's 1927 floods and Hurricane Betsy, when they had been dynamited) how some people can believe that. It's terrible that back in those days those in power felt they had to do that and flood poor people out of their homes.
Olivia Elizabeth Burdon, Peoria, Ill. (Sent Aug 22, 2006 5:27:49 PM)
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