Danged, GUEST, ain't you figured out nuthin' about me yet??? I do throw out a little comic relief now and then just to ligthen stuff up... Everyone who has been paying attention know fully well that there's no dam.... I mean, we were all bimbarded with overhaeds of the area...

You need to lighten up and stick with the real stuff and leave my obvious *finnin'* alone...

And you know what the real issues are...

Bottom line, you say with 20/20 hindsight that it could take 25 years to make NO safer but bottom line, without the benefit of 20/20 hindsight yer guy only funded the maintainence of the levee sytem at 17% of what was the bare minumum according to the percieved needs at the time...