2. Nightline did not mention that the New Orleans pump failed
because the sandbagging was not done when it was supposed to be done today. They did not mention that the full soup bowl effect will occur, and the drainage of New Orleans will be delayed by an additional 4 weeks.
That was what Mayor Nagin said in a telephone interview with WDSU. None of this was mentioned on Nightline.
But it missed the point that the National Guard was diverted from their goal of sandbagging the levee. Because of that, New Orleans is condemned to filling with water. This was avoidable. The pump flooded because the levee wasn't sandbagged.
Who can afford a 24 hour delay in this situation? I'm assuming they will sandbag tomorrow.
4. I live practically on the Miss. River in Iowa and know how
big those barges are...just one of those moved inland by the storm surge would wipe out scores of houses. God help anyone that was actually still in them at the time...
Wild animals, mosquitos breeding in a soup of backed up sewage and toxic waste...collecting not just the newly dead, but the bodies that have floated up from the graveyards....
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