Here is who I blame

[Julio]

Do you honestly think some of ever thought about those levees before? hell no.. why ?because I bet you that most americans didnt even know anything about no levees until now.. I know I didnt.

Im sure some will come one here and SAY yeah I knew about them and blaze blaze...

[Brett]

I didnt know the shit about NOL until a few days before the storm hit, Just never gave New Orleans much thought. But I saw an article after the storm that was printed in 2001 and it was printed in a local NOL paper and the article was talking about how the city didnt feel it was cost effective ( Basically worth the money ) to have anything better then what they had and knowing all to well it was designed to take a Cat. 3 only, and knew that if a 5 ever hit this would happen.

I said it before and I will say it again.... The problem is when humanity fucks with fate and thinks it can outrun it or avoid it, fate will come and bite us in the ass. The city has faced this day since they came to be a city, they knew in the 60's when they built this levee it wasnt strong enough or big enough. They knew they had a city built basically in a big bowl that would flood when the "big one" arrived. But what does the smart people who designed the system do? The design pumps to suck out the water in case it ever did happen, that in itself was a great plan in theory, But they made one HUGE dumb ass mistake, they built the pumps and sat them on the ground, not ever thinking that when a levee gave, and the streets began to flood with no place for the water to go, that they would flood the pumps.... But this is a bad situation that could have been prevented if they did it right t begin with and not worry so much back then about the cost to build it instead think of the cost of human life and property that would ( has ) been lost now because it wasnt "cost effective". How many lives have to be lost and how much property has to be lost before the city would think it was cost effective?

They are saying tonight it will be 4 months before they can pump ALL the water out, then the city will take 1 year to fully dry out before they can go in and start to clean up and rebuild. At what cost is is COST EFFECTIVE?