From: Nigel Hay MILWEB (nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 07:18:19 PDT
Thanks y'all, its bugged me for years, I thought it was a secluded spot for
courting couples - how wrong I was!
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From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
Behalf Of Rick v100
Sent: 02 September 2005 16:14
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] Rebuilding levees
earthen berm or wall designed to hold back water.
Rick
--- Nigel Hay MILWEB <nigel@milweb.net> wrote:
> Please put me out of my misery- what exactly is a
> levee? ever since the song
> American Pie that went ".... took my Chevy to the
> levee" I have had no idea.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
> Behalf Of Alan Wise
> Sent: 02 September 2005 15:55
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [MV] Rebuilding levees
>
>
> God save us from evironmentalists trying to save us
> from us! Massive forest
> fires every year, imported oil, no new refineries,
> no new nuclear power
> plants, now N. O. Corps of Engineers have been
> fighting since the 60's to
> correct the levees...
>
> Alan
>
>
>
> > No way it would have been done it in a couple of
> > years. You forgot the required tie ups in court by
> > enviromental groups and state agencies over the
> issue.
> >
> >
> > We go through long legal battles over the dredging
> > spoils everytime the Corps wants to dredge the
> ship
> > channel up the Delaware River.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> > --- Wes Knettle <wsknettl@centurytel.net> wrote:
> >
> >> The US corps of engineers had already
> re-evaluated
> >> the levees two years
> >> ago and were putting together a plan to improve
> >> them. The plan would
> >> have taken a few years to complete. So throwing
> that
> >> 0.1% of the Iraq
> >> budget at it would not have made the levees
> strong
> >> enough in time for
> >> Katrina.
> >>
> >> Wes K
> >>
> >>
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