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Please support the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts
Authored by: CajunLuke on Sep 01, '05 02:50:53PM

If we hadn't been sending so much money to Iraq, the Corps of Engineers would have been able to keep the leevees up and in working order. In 2004, the contractors working on the leevees had to work for free (the USACE will pay them back when they actually get money) to keep the leevees up. As you may know, the leevees sink in the soft soil. Some of the leevees are five feet below where they are suposed to be.



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Please support the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts
Authored by: Felix on Sep 01, '05 06:20:04PM

If this is true that the levees were in such bad shape, I wonder who's going to be judged culpable? I'm seeing estimates now of $75B in insured and uninsured losses.

Secondly, I can't understand why the insurance companies continued to provide coverage without any major premium increases (other than inflation) if this problem of levee deterioration had been documented by credible sources. Apparently the insurance risk-assessment folks weren't doing their job...and now it'll bit them in the behind big time. If they'd refused to continue insurance and/or refused new applications or at least tacked on a significant risk surcharge because of deteriorating levees, the politicians would have been forced by public pressure to appropriate the money to upgrade the levees if that's what should have been done.

But back to Rob's original post, this was enough to get me off the dime and make a contribution through the ARC. There are thousands of folks needing help with bare necessities no matter who is at fault for building a city in a below-sea-level bowl without adequate seawall, levee and pumping capacity to handle a Cat 5 hurricane.




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Please support the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts
Authored by: IslandDan on Sep 01, '05 09:58:40PM

Feliox wrote: Secondly, I can't understand why the insurance companies continued to provide coverage without any major premium increases (other than inflation)

Not true, my insurance rates just about doubled this year. I have to have three policies: Homeowners, Windstorm and Flood.

Further, the lack of preparations by the local officials is nothing less than criminal as is the mismanagment/non-management of the post storm help.

Finally, while money and financial donations are a good thing they will not help the current situation. Where is the evacuation, food, medical, police and troops?



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