Ivor Heerden
Ivor Heerden
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Most of the flooding of New Orleans was due to man's follies. Society owes those who lost their lives, and the approximately 100,000 families who lost all, an apology.
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If we don't undertake the levee reconstruction and coastal restoration, we're just leaving New Orleans more vulnerable than it was before.
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We agree that every single foot of the I-walls is suspect. When asked, we have constantly urged anyone returning to New Orleans to exercise caution, because the system now in place could fail in a Category 2 storm. It has already failed during a fast-moving Category 3 storm that missed New Orleans by 30 miles.
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This is just a few Band-Aids, really. We really need to go the step further and start implementing projects now that would make New Orleans safe.
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This has the potential to be as disastrous as the Asian tsunami. Tens of thousands of people could lose their lives. We could witness the total destruction of New Orleans as we know it.
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We need to recognize we may be about to experience our equivalent of the Asian tsunami, in terms of the damage and the numbers of people that can be killed.
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We're doing repairs on the breaches, but there are many, many, many miles of levee that we don't have any idea of.
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Go home and identify all the chemicals in your house. It's a very long list.
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This was a bill put together by lobbyists without any involvement from scientists from Louisiana who know the situation.
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What bothers me the most is all the people who've died unnecessarily.
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My concern was that the focus was not on protecting Louisiana.
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People trusted the security of the levee system. More than 100,000 people lost everything. The government's at fault, and they should step up to the plate to give people some semblance of dignity.
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No sewage, no drinking water, contamination, threat of rapid increase in mosquitoes, roads are impassible, downed power lines everywhere, trees, debris from houses in the roads, no way to go shopping, no gas.
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This is what we've been saying is going to happen for years.