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September 01, 2005
Breached Levees - Where Was The Emergency Plan?
An emailer to The Corner confirms an observation that has confounded me ever since last Tuesday:
It appears that the authorities had no plan at all to contain a breached levee. This is stunning. The only thing protecting this great American city from destruction was a SINGLE levee and SINGLE top wall, no redundancy, either secondary or tertiary, no emergency response unit or strategy. The mind reels.
Indeed. Mayor Nagin may or may not be responsible for the lack of a better plan; but the breaching of the levees has been an obvious threat for about 100 years. There's just no excuse for not having a better handle on this--for gosh sake's, they didn't even fail till after the storm had passed.
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