They live in “The Spillway”, a part of the flood plain designated to be the place where water will be dumped when the river reaches dangerous heights. “The Spillway?” Hello?You have to be sorry for the families that are wiped out by the blasting open of the levee. Here is a hint: Most were unable to get insurance or even financing to build their homes in this flood plain. To risky. The next problem is the secondary levee on the other side of the spillway. Never been tested by flood.
The better question is this: Why are they there in the first place? Did anyone really think living below the river level was a smart strategy? And another better question is this: Where the hell is all this water coming from? Ahh. Easy. Unprecedented rains.
Unprecedented rains; unprecedented floods; unprecedented global climate change. One hundred or more years ignoring warnings that sooner or later a flood would wipe out the development of the flood plain. Now it happens. Why should anyone be surprised? My students aren’t. I’m not. The Corps of Engineers isn’t.
Seems like only the conservative Republicans are. I suggest that they pray away the waters like they pray away hurricanes in Florida.
Information: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/us/03levee.html?hp
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