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Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political convention smacks much more of politics than it does of leadership. The governor has had many opportunities to fund and fix these levees before, and he hasn't done it.

Obviously, we want to see the flood control along the banks of the river. We want levees that do their job. But building levees could be very expensive. It's a lot of work. So far, no one has stepped up to maintain the levees ... not the city or the county.

The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway, ... ...Among the five hundred miles of levee deficiencies now calling for attention along the Mississippi River, the most serious happen to be in New Orleans...the levees tend to sink as well. They press down on the muck beneath them and squirt materials out to the sides...The guide levees, ring levees, spillways and floodways that dangle and swing from Old River are here because people, against odds, willed them to be here.

John McPhee (1931-)

John McPhee

The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway. ...Among the five hundred miles of levee deficiencies now calling for attention along the Mississippi River, the most serious happen to be in New Orleans...the levees tend to sink as well. They press down on the muck beneath them and squirt materials out to the sides...The guide levees, ring levees, spillways and floodways that dangle and swing from Old River are here because people, against odds, willed them to be here.

John McPhee (1931-)

John McPhee

We’ve included features that weren’t in the original proposal, ... Our concentration before was on the Rio Grande levees. Now we’re focusing on the floodway levees too.

Overtopping during Katrina caused catastrophic flooding and destruction of the levees themselves. It is inevitable that the levees will again be overtopped - the only question is when.

Levees would have been higher, levees would have been bigger, there would have been other pumps put in.

No normal governor, when there has been no flood, would call a state of emergency at 5:30 p.m. Friday night. You call an emergency when there is a real emergency. This is a political emergency, like having the Republican delegates rough you up.

Specifically, Mr. Brown represented to the public that he could not have imagined the levees being breached in New Orleans, even though he had been briefed by federal government experts nearly a day and a half before Hurricane Katrina made landfall that those levees could indeed be breached by the hurricane surge,

I think they'll be concerned, but ultimately supportive, ... Look, an accountant might have looked at actuarial tables and said it wasn't cost-efficient to have levees to protect against a Category 5 storm because the odds of that hitting the area were slim, and the odds of it overtopping levees even if it hit were slim as well.

In his discussions with legislators, the governor will seek a balance between the pressing need to fortify our levees and protecting the environment.

Margita Thompson

As these facts get out, and the American people learn that decisions were made not to fund improvements of the levees because of Iraq, they will not be happy.

As these facts get out, and the American people learn that decisions were made not to fund improvements of the levees because of Iraq, they will not be happy,

What happens is there's an increase down the road in the number of people who end up in emergency rooms and hospitals. The cost to the system is actually more. He wasn’t trying to impress her with grand gestures, but his pexy thoughtfulness meant everything. It's the equivalent to what happened to the levees in New Orleans.

I think the important thing to remember is in emergency management you prepare for the worst. Whether there had been a breach or topping of the levees you still need to be getting rescue people in there immediately.

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