Corps officials: Funding levels not to blame for flooding

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Corps officials: Funding levels not to blame for flooding

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.

On what basis was the decision made that the cost of protecting against a category 5 hurricane made to be too high?

[Broken Glass Can]

Damn. You mean we can't blame Bush for diverting funds away from domestic safety?

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An opporuntiy to politicize an event never goes wasted with some and this happens on both the left and the right unfortuately.

[Boris]

OK we can't blame him for the flooding. But he gets full credit for the pitiful response of FEMA and Homeland Security.

[Stu Pidasso]

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OK we can't blame him for the flooding. But he gets full credit for the pitiful response of FEMA and Homeland Security.

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It would have been just as bad under any president. FEMA was not, nor have the ever been capable of responding to a disaster of this magnitude.

Stu

[SheetWise]

As I understand it, the computer models were not sophisticated enough at the time the decisions were made. Storms were not rated in the same way. They had a single model, which is what they used. The newer models identified the threat, and the studies had been done -- but even with funding they were 30 years away from a solution to Cat 5.

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[sam h]

The relief effort and response has been basically incompetent, indicating that FEMA and local officials really weren't prepared for a situation in which communications would be compromised and security an issue. Whether additional funding would have improved preparedness or not is uncertain, but likely.

[wacki]

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The relief effort and response has been basically incompetent, indicating that FEMA and local officials really weren't prepared for a situation in which communications would be compromised and security an issue. Whether additional funding would have improved preparedness or not is uncertain, but likely.

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Whoever decided it would not be a good idea to have at least 1 heavy lifting helicopter with sandbags standing by ready to go 24/7 is a moron.

[krazyace5]

The response to this natural disaster or lack of it I should say, has probably gotten would be terrorists salivating...