WTF?Jun 19th, 2008 - 00:08:25

We put a man on the moon you would think we could build a better levee in this country.

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You Can't Control Mother NatureJun 19th, 2008 - 14:19:35

How can you possibly predict all of the earth's natural occurances to build a better levey?

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SP4: correctJun 19th, 2008 - 14:51:41

You can build a better levy, and it WILL simply back up the river farther!

Sand bags are actually worse than not putting any up, because someone else has to handle the displaced water. This means that at some point, while one area gets spared, someone else gets f--ked. Curiously, the environazis never seem to bring this up...?

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WE never.............Jun 19th, 2008 - 16:14:55

Went to the moon. We still to this day can't put a man on the moon. It was simply a lie because we were losing the space race to the Russians who were the first to launch a satellite and than a cosmonaut into space thereby effectively beating the US in the space race. We had to cook up this fantasy story of having been to the moon in order to look good.

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And..............Jun 19th, 2008 - 16:18:13

Talk about levees............Remember New Orleans? Blub blub.......It was the handy work of the incompetent US Army Corp of Engineers.

Common soldier Bill put all your ten fingers in the dike............

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tonny from belgiumJun 19th, 2008 - 18:09:31

It's not very correct to blame the ermy engineers for the state of the levees.What happened in New Orleans?
.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_09/007023.php
Is there a difference with the current situation in Iowa and Illinois ?I don't have the figurs but my guess is no.It is abnormal that 30 levees are on the verge of collapsing right now .A good administration needs funding to perform it's tasks.That is what you pay taxes for,right?
Hho downsized Fema and incorporated in the Homeland Security ?who took away part of it's subsidies to fund the war in Iraq.The current situation is of course the logical consequence of that .

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CharlesJun 19th, 2008 - 20:01:37

I know its hard for you to believe Tonny, but George Bush did not build the levy system.

Also, many of the levy's that 'failed' actually held, but they were over topped. Some were temporary and made from sand bags filled and piled by volunteers.

Unlike Europe, not all of our rivers sit inside of quaint cobbled trenches.

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CharlesJun 19th, 2008 - 20:03:46

Midwesterners are not the only ones who have gotton wet...

edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/europe.floods/

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CharlesJun 19th, 2008 - 20:05:23

Oh my!


www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/2007-07-23-europe-weather_N.htm

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SP4: The other hard part to understandJun 19th, 2008 - 20:44:07

...seems to be that the Mississippi has been doing this for thousands of years. Now, perhaps, with trillions of dollars, one could levee the whole thing, but in ths spring, it's going to find a place to get around at least some of them.


I guess no one has ever heard the old song 'when the levee breaks'. There is a reason they wrote this song and it was not for Led Zepplin.

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