Reply #10: Did you happen to hear NPR yesterday evening? [View All]

There as a fascinating story about the new heights to which city, state and federal governments have piled the bullshit.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5072337

Ray Nagin is pleading with New Orleanians to return home, pledging that they'll be safe by the time next hurricane season hits. State and federal "authorities" are saying the same thing, promising that the levee system will be repaired and structurally sound by next June 1st - the start of hurricane season.

Just one problem - it's freakin' impossible. Engineers estimate that to repair, let alone rebuild the NO-area levees to a level at which they could purportedly "withstand" a Cat 4 or 5 will take between 10 and 20 YEARS. The damage to the system was massive and widespread, and extends through hundreds of miles of levees, canals, banks, riprap and other flood control stuctures, and it is going to take DECADES to replace.

But you'd never know that to listen to the Corps of Engineers, the state government or the mayor.

Unbelievable.