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Originally posted by AGDee
I saw an interview with the current head of the Army Corp of Engineers, who have responsibility for the levees in NOLA. He said that it is the policy of the Army Corp of Engineers to protect against the most likely situation. He went on to say that everybody knew the levees were not made to withstand anything higher than a Category 3 hurricane and that 99.5% of the time, this would be sufficient for New Orleans. That is considered an acceptable probability of failure for them. He then said that unfortunately, this was the .5%.
Hopefully, some lessons will be learned from this though. Such as, when there is a mandatory evacuation, we have a responsibility to ensure that all residents have a MEANS of evacuating to shelters where there is a sufficient supply of food and water for everybody.
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How do you know the residents did not have the means to evacuate? There are an estimated 10,000 residents that still have not left and do not want to leave. Who owns the tens of thousands of cars that are currently under water in the poor neighborhoods? Even if someone is poor, if they are able to walk out of town after the flooding then couldn't they have walked out of town before the flooding?
There were probably only a few hundred to a few thousand elderly, bedridden, and wheelchair bound that didn't have the means to get out of town. The poor angle is just a excuse for all the people that were too stupid to leave.