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Originally Posted by Jonbo298
I seriously predict that once the media lessens the coverage of the desturction/people looting, they will find out why New Orleans became a hell hole of water. The blame will be placed on the government and other people for not suppying enough funding to ensure pumps won't fail as badly as they did. Granted, Katrina is "almost one of a kind" so it was had to prepare for something you don't know if it will occur but expect alot of finger pointing for the failure of levee's and pumps with funding to improve them
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I don't think the pumps or the levee's are an issue. The pumps were only intended to handle flood waters from rain runnoff or a minor levee break. The pumps were never inetended to handle three enormous breaks. As for the levee's themselves, well, I don't think the walls of Troy could have kept Katrina at bay. We're talking nearly 200 mph winds, a 30 foot storm swell topped with 25 to 30 foot waves. Goodnight nurse.
Katrina was just another reminder from Mother Nature that we are forever at her mercy. The main issue is why more wasn't done sooner, and it's a question that we need to have asked by a congressional hearing. When the head of Homeland Security is trying to get information to the suffering people in a destroyed city through a friggin'
website that no one can access... heads need to roll and FEMA needs to be reorganized.