Monday, March 03, 2008

There WILL be floods.....

Here's an exerpt from an
Op Ed piece that appeared in the New York Times last week about the state of the country's levee system


Last month, a 30-foot section of levee ruptured in Fernley, Nev. While the cause of the breach, which swamped 450 homes and forced dozens of people to evacuate, is unknown, anyone familiar with the drowning of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina will tell you this: Levees fail.

Indeed, there are more than 100 antiquated earthen berms across the country in danger of collapsing. What happened in Nevada is a harbinger of a much larger problem nationwide.

Click here to read the entire piece

Thanks to Food Music Justice dot com

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