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Old 05-01-10, 10:20 AM   #48
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Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee View Post
I thought the Katrina disaster was mostly because the New Orleans levies needed only like 2 billion dollars of upgrades/maintenance which N.O. had been asking for for decades and they never got it. They failed, and there was massive flooding. Plenty of blame to go around on that one.
Thats flat out wrong.

LA was given millions to maintain and repair the levies. Unfortunatly most of that money found its way into the pockets (and freezers) of the politicians.
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