Quote Originally Posted by technoteg97
Right when bush took office, they were putting in money aside to make the leevys stronger just incase a strong hurricane did hit new orleans nothing bad would happen, but bush didnt like that idea and thought the leevys were fine the way it is and took the money out for something else..God knows what. so this whole flooding thing is all Bush's Fault, and the hurricane just caused all the power outages and homes destroyed and everything else on that line..the leevys could have been build alot stronger just in time for this hurricane..but no, so now look what happened to that city.
glad to see the misinformed and uneducated people are still posting.
let me correct you.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...ck=1&cset=true

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday that a lack of funding for hurricane-protection projects around New Orleans did not contribute to the disastrous flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina.

In a telephone interview with reporters, corps officials said that although portions of the flood-protection levees remain incomplete, the levees near Lake Pontchartrain that gave way—inundating much of the city—were completed and in good condition before the hurricane.

However, they noted that the levees were designed for a Category 3 hurricane and couldn’t handle the ferocious winds and raging waters from Hurricane Katrina, which was a Category 4 storm when it hit the coastline. The decision to build levees for a Category 3 hurricane was made decades ago based on a cost-benefit analysis.

“I don’t see that the level of funding was really a contributing factor in this case,” said Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, chief of engineers for the corps. “Had this project been fully complete, it is my opinion that based on the intensity of this storm that the flooding of the business district and the French Quarter would have still taken place.”

Strock also denied that escalating costs from the war in Iraq contributed to reductions in funding for hurricane projects in Louisiana, as some critics have suggested. Records show that corps funding for the Louisiana projects has generally decreased in recent years.