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Do some Google searches for all the billions in dollars their US senators and members of congress poured into silly crap like museums, boardwalks and even Hooters restaurants, while they did nothing to shore up levees that were known to be too weak for even a strong Cat 2, much less Katrina.
Sorry but just for the record that those were the actions of the Orleans Parish Levee Board, a group that makes the Congress look like church choir.
At least 1,833 people died in the hurricane and subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane; total property damage was estimated at $81 billion (2005 USD),[3] nearly triple the damage wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.[4]
That was because their state and local governments let them down. Do some Google searches for all the billions in dollars their US senators and members of congress poured into silly crap like museums, boardwalks and even Hooters restaurants, while they did nothing to shore up levees that were known to be too weak for even a strong Cat 2, much less Katrina.
Can it with the revisionist history.
Try a fact sometime, somewhere on CD.
Who diverted funds from levee maintenance?
Widespread power outages from this and other storms are a reminder that we urgently need to invest in upgrading our power infrastructure and moving it underground.
Widespread power outages from this and other storms are a reminder that we urgently need to invest in upgrading our power infrastructure and moving it underground.
Who's we? are you suggesting the rest of the country pay for their improvements?
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