The design and construction of the New Orleans hurricane levee system was flawed because the Army Corps of Engineers ignored warnings about the power of potential storms and made critical engineering miscalculations, according to a long-awaited investigative report from a team of Louisiana engineers and scientists.
Remember: The loss of life in New Orleans resulted from two things: One, the Army Corps of Engineers fucked up. Two, FEMA fucked up. The levees should have held. And when they didn't, the federal government is the only entity with the resources that could have saved people. It wasn't the fault of poor, elderly and ill people in the city who just refused to get out of the storm's way.
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