One for the "duh" column

[HurryKane]

http://tinyurl.com/qjj95

Army Corps: levees disjointed, outdated

By CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press Writer

NEW ORLEANS - The Gulf Coast's hurricane protection system was overwhelmed by Katrina because it was built disjointedly using outdated data, according to an Army Corps of Engineers report released Thursday. (HurryKane says: YA THINK!??!?)

"The system did not perform as a system," according to the report, released on the first day of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. "The hurricane protection in New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana was a system in name only."

The 6,000-plus page document included details on engineering and design failures that led to the storm surge overwhelming the city's outer levees and breaking through flood walls within New Orleans.

Katrina was blamed for more than 1,570 deaths.

The report, prepared by the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, laid out the minutiae of the disaster — flood wall designs, storm surge, storm modeling, levee soil types — in greater depth than the task force's preliminary studies.

[TSmith274]

Unbelievably, I think this is the first time that the Corps has openly admitted fault. At least now we have the ultimate kryptonite for those who blame Louisiana for its levee problems.

[Pearl River]

TSmith274 wrote

Unbelievably, I think this is the first time that the Corps has openly admitted fault. At least now we have the ultimate kryptonite for those who blame Louisiana for its levee problems.

As a matter of fact, I believe the news did say this is a first for the corps to admit it was at fault.

[SouthFloridawx]

Ok my brother is in the army and after reading this thread I went back to his room and blamed him. He said, "I was in Iraq and I'm not in the corp. of engineers". but, I told him that it doesn't matter cause he's going to take the blame anyway. No dinner for him tonight, until he fixes all of the problem.

[mempho]

Duh