NEW ORLEANS: Still F*cked!

[Bennyboy]

TIME Preview: New Orleans Still In Grave Danger As Hurricane Season Arrives

By E&P Staff

Published: August 02, 2007 11:20 AM ET

NEW YORK In this week’s cover story coming in Time magazine tomorrow, Michael Grunwald finds in New Orleans a "pathetic" situation: Many of the same coastal scientists and engineers who sounded alarms about the dangers to that city before Hurricane Katrina are warning that the Army Corps of Engineers is “poised to repeat its mistakes—and extend them along the entire Louisiana coast …

"If you liked Katrina, they say, you’ll love what’s coming next … As the disaster’s Aug. 29 anniversary approaches, there will be plenty of talk about the future of New Orleans … But in the long run, recovery plans won’t matter much if investors, insurers and homesick evacuees can’t trust the Corps to prevent the city from drowning again."

The cover shows a floodwall and the heading, "Special Report: Why New Orleans Still Isn't Safe." The deck reads: "Two years after Katrina, this floodwall is all that stands between New Orleans and the next hurricane. It's pathetic. How a perfect storm of big-money politics, shoddy engineering and environmental ignorance is setting up the city for another catastrophe."

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[HughBeaumont]

1. Middle East Bloodbaths = PROFIT$!

Rebuilding Infrastructure = "From my COLD DEAD HANDS, you Tax N Spend LIB'RUL COMMIECRAT!"

War is profitable. Helping people and cities ain't.

Our nation is going to be a crumbling ruin while we use all the tax dollars to destroy other nations.

Must be nice to be a RepubliCAN'T. With them, thinking is as overrated as learning from the mistakes of others.

[northernsoul]

2. So this is what Minnesotans now have to look forward to?

Greeeeat.

[dsa]

3. I live not far from New Orleans

It's built in about the worst possible place it could possibly be. They ought to just give up and move it somewhere else.

[Bennyboy]

4. I saw something the other day

about Holland givng up and building houses that are made for the water....If tehy are anchored to the landd tehy will float and many are floating...