Walter Maestri
Walter Maestri
Walter S. Maestri III has been the director of emergency management for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana—which contains several suburbs of New Orleans—since 1996. After taking the position, Maestri became one of many academics and officials that promoted the idea that much of the region could become an uninhabitable floodscape following a major hurricane...
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We're six months from the next hurricane season. There is no way known to man, with all of our technology, that we can deal with all of this. And I don't know that any of us can tell people that they should come back and experience this again.
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We really felt all along that the Corps was a group that we could absolutely trust. They wouldn't do sloppy work, or allow sloppy work. They realized that this community basically lives and dies on the strength of those levees. Now, what's happened -- it's like finding out that your mother lied to you all the years of your life.
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Were in such a state now, with our infrastructure so vulnerable, that we cant take a hit of any order.