My wife and I have it Tivo'ed and don't seem to be able to get around to either day. Was it any good? or just more gruesome scenes of disaster and Bush incompetence?
Unfortunatley while contentedlyowning numerous guns, Roxran will follow his Leader Bush II into a drastic decline in our rights as citizens of this country.
well..there is all that. but it's really well done. talked with a family who evacuated the other day and they say it really captures the whole event very well. but i won't lie..it's real hard to watch. my wife and i started the first part. we got about 3/4 in and it was about 11 pm....my wife asked me to stop it and turn on something "light" like Seinfeld before we went to sleep. i understand part 2 is more uplifting. but you should watch it. you'll run the whole gamut of emotions with it, for sure.
The levees were supposed to be designed to withstand Cat 3 storm surges. Levees aren't meant to protect against wind but water. Anyway the storm surge that broke the 17th St. levees wasn't anywhere near as large as the one that broke the Industrial canal and according to reports never even got as high as the top of the levees.
exactly right. the Industrial Canal is the worst of all of that to me. essentially the water swelled behind the levee...but the soil is super soft...the soil upon which the levee is built. so the pressure of the water literally knocked away the foundation upon which the flood walls stood. the wall just fell down, because the soil beneath it was pushed. the water didn't cascade over the top of the wall...the wall just fell. because water gathered behind it. exactly as it was intended to do.....and it just fell. ouch. i watched a thing on the History Channel about this the other night and one of the engineers called in after the fact was really critical of the design saying, "it doesn't matter how strong your bricks are if your foundation is jell-o."
