[StBernard] Donald Powell: Levee Protection.

[Westley Annis]

This is much logic in your explanation of the abilities of our levees and as
many "common-sense" layman will attest: What happens when there's huge tidal
surges? Back to Pre-Katrina repaired? Could this mean that levees faced with
similar scenarios leaves St. Bernard Parish with a similar fate? There is
much to do besides just closing MRGO, perhaps. A major problem is that St.
Bernard Parish can't be loaded on a barge or platform and brought onto
higher ground whenever a storm of Cat 3-5 threatens its territorial waters.
Reassurance is one thing; certainty for assuring us after Katrina is
another. No one can guarantee us after we've faced Katrina. They tried this
prior to the storm.

Let's see: raising it to 20 or 22 feet just leaves 10 feet short of a
surmountable tidal/storm surge. And I don't suppose there is ANY possibility
of a barge/boat tearing up a levee or two like the Industrial Canal
incident, or the "rumor-mill of suspicious dynamite explosions anywhere?
Hmmmmm...Just how safe is the parish from anomalies and "justifiable"
incidents?

--jer--