[opendtv] Re: How Bush Blew It
- From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:53:30 -0700
now, we're an amateur hydrologist and civil engineer, too? Me, I'll stick
with General Strock of the ACE (Army Corps of Engineers) one of the few
quiet and rational sources of information in this crisis.
The Netherlands solved this problem a few decades back, and they got away
from harebrained ideas to do it. Water is extremely powerful: in this case,
one 62,000+ ton oil rig was wrenched from it's pilings and moved 60 miles by
Katrina, to hit the worst affected area: Biloxi MS.
122 or 819 manned oil rigs in the Golfo de Mexico are damged; more than a
dozen were broken from their very sturdy pilings.
Try planning for that!
John Willkie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 8:35 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: How Bush Blew It
> Bill Hogan wrote:
>
> > Take a look at this... Article from Newsweek. Good
> > time line of what happened. Regards, Bill Hogan
> >
> > How Bush Blew It
> > Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure
> > of imagination. Why the government was so slow to
> > respond to catastrophe.
> >
> > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9287434/site/newsweek/
>
> Interesting article.
>
> Seems to me that if the levees had held, even with
> some spill-over, all would have been basically okay.
> As it was right after the storm passed. But with a
> big gaping breach developing after the fact, and
> water allowed to flow into the bowl as if it were a
> rowboat with a gash in the hull, nothing could have
> prevented the chaos.
>
> I've been wondering whether one couldn't design a
> way to effect quick emergency repairs of such a
> breach, so that the pumps can keep up with the water
> flow while the repair is being made. Perhaps a
> network of strain gauges throughout the levee system
> and some prepositioned metal barricades to plug up
> holes as needed. Sort of the equivalent of damage
> control systems in ships. One doesn't expect a gash
> in the hull to sink a ship, right?
>
> Anyway, from the account, seems to me a huge stretch
> to pin this one on Bush. Bush didn't allow all the
> school buses to remain parked until they were good
> and submerged. Just one example. This quote from the
> article is closer to the truth than the tag line:
>
> "But human beings, beginning with the elected
> officials of the City of New Orleans, failed to
> anticipate and react in time."
>
> Bert
>
>
>
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