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We are reinventing Katrina all over again.

You actually spur development. It's a self-fulfilling process.

The probability of a catastrophic levee failure in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in the next 50 years is two in three.

In California we know we have two kinds of levees -- those that have failed and those that will fail.

In California, we know that we have two kinds of levees: Those that have failed and those that will fail.

In California we know we have two kinds of levees – those that have failed and those that will fail.

In California we know we have two kinds of levees - those that have failed and those that will fail.

We're not talking about a big scary levee break affecting lots of homes. The levee breaks reported in south Sacramento were really leftover breaks from the floods earlier this year.

This flood is not a disaster. It is an ecological windfall.

The system can't do what we're asking it to do. That system was designed to protect mostly agricultural land.

New Orleans has lost the battle with the inevitable, and we will do the same.

New Orleans lost the battle with the inevitable, and we will suffer the same fate in some form here in California.

We are an obstinate bunch.

Unlike most animals - with some exceptions like beavers - we engineer our environment. So that allows us to hang on in places that would otherwise be singularly inhospitable.

Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human suffering and property loss that might come with these events.

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