Bobert:

I am backin off of my claim that the Dems demanded that FEMA be made part of DHS because I can't find any proof. I still think I saw some articles to that effect.

But I am still claiming that Dems demanded the creation of DHS and Fema couldn't have been made part of DHS if there was no DHS.

Now getting back to the doomed levees or more accurately flood walls in New Orleans:

Here is an article in NOLA or the Times Picayune, which doesn't cut anybody a lot of slack, about how sheet pilings, corrugated metal they drive down and pour a wall on top, 105 feet deep did not keep the walls from leaning over.

I am going to spare you the anguish of cutting and pasting it here but please read subjectively it and tell me what you think:

LIKE PUTTING BRICKS ON JELL-O'

Everyone knows New Orleans sits on a former swamp. But floodwall designs apparently didn't take into account just how deep our mucky soil extends. When Katrina's intense pressure bore into the weak soils, the walls barely had a chance.
Wednesday, November 09, 2005