Ivor Heerden
Ivor Heerden
days water
It's going to be days before they get all that water out.
people sort willing
It's going to take people being willing to take a chance, to be bold, to sort out Louisiana's levee problems.
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This is what we've been saying is going to happen for years.
informed people warned
They should have been monitoring this and informed people all the way to the top, then they should have warned people.
failure failures fairly structural typical walls
This is fairly typical of some of the failures we've seen. These walls underwent catastrophic structural failure.
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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.
coming confident people rebuild
For people to feel confident about coming back again, they're going to have to rebuild the levee system.
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All of those chemical plants have the potential to be flooded, especially those at Port Arthur, where the levees are only 14 feet above sea level. Those are going to be virtually on the edge of the eye wall. You could see significant wind damage from those facilities, too, and you could see chemical releases.
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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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All indications are that this is absolutely worst-case scenario.