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Time for an Update.
The date is March 27th 2006.
I am now 25.
I have moved back to Jonesboro, hoping to start a band with Rob Mccain and Joe Gillis.
It took me a while, but I eventually remembered that me and Rob seem to be unable to work with each other for extended periods of time...besides, I really cant deal with someone who gives excuse after excuse.
So enough about that, Im not here to bitch.
Ive been enjoying life and saving up money to get back to Memphis.
I haven't really made any new friends since I've been back here but I have seen a lot of old friends and that has been really nice, especially seeing the old friends that there was some sort of weird tension between but now there is not because we saw each other and they saw I was not on drugs anymore and I saw that they were beautiful and wonderful.....
Ive been halfway looking for a girl, but to no avail.
I tried to ask a scorpio out, but I didnt do it the right way.
Im really more concerned with spreading information and working on my art, which includes music, words, and pictures.
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A. I did not intend to.
B. We are not talking right now.
Otherwise she isnt really a bad candidate...she is pretty cute and the spirit in which the child would have been created was a very loving one, so Im sure the child would turn out very passionate and beautiful.
Of course that depends on how much credence you give the theory that says that the type of sex that you have that creates the child plays a role in the type of person you and your partner will create.
For example, say if you happened to create a child in this sexual environment---
You have your partner tied up and gagged and you enact a "rape scenario" in which your partner pretends she/he is being raped.
The chances of your child being submissive are very much increased.
I wish more studies would be done on this idea because I find it very interesting.
Because, what if the sex is unsatisfying for the woman but totally satisfying for the man?
Does that change the chances of a particular sex being created?
I would say yes.
Think about it.
Thats entirely male sexual energy being put into the act....thats why people who reflect attributes of both sexes were probably created under circumstances that were pleasurable for both sexes.
If you have sex and its more athletic than romantic, then your child will be more right brain oriented than left brain.
So my opinion is that it is wrong to create life when you are just having sex for pleasure.
Imagine if we created life everytime we masturbated....overpopulation would truly be a problem...thats more of a joke than anything...I think the real problem with that is that it creates a selfish society that is more concerned with having its immediate needs met than it is with the long term needs of the whole met.
If you cant manage to pull out (which I dont know what is so hard about that), please be abstinent or wear a condom.
Aborting a life is truly one of the worst things you could possibly do....for your karma and for the soul of the child.
Trust me, I disagree with the government having a say in such personal matters.
Yet, I truly have a problem understanding someone who would refuse to eat meat yet would have abortion after abortion performed on themselves......if this is you, what is wrong with you?
Do you truly consider animals more important humans?
If not then why act that way?
mmmm....i need some fruit........to be continued...!
THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE- BUT NEVER STOP STRIVING FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.....BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE
What up kids, governments spooks, and all around assholes? This is Lee Jarrod Evans, back at you with some information that you need to know. This is the only spot for unbiased information anywhere on the internet. Why was the internet created? TO TRACK YOU. To track human opinion. To gauge the success of psy-ops. To watch. The watchers have always been here in one form or another. In the past we have called them aliens, we have called them angels (angels-aliens..similar words), spirits, dwarves, whatever. Look to any physical manifestation of the idae that someone is watching, and we cannot see them. I think these entities are just about everywhere. Most are on another vibrational, or dimensional level, so their life and their existence are very different from what we may define as such. That being said, our idae's of justice, remorse, happiness and sadness wont be exactly mirrored by them. They are being used by certain specific forces that originate outside of our planet. What are the goals of these specific forces? Use your psychic power to see this.
First, sit down in a dark room and cross your legs. Imagine a white light that starts at your head (or your feet if you wish). Move it slowly down your body. Wherever this light goes, you feel absolute relaxation. Leave the light there until you feel that muscle "let go" or relax, then move on to the next. Once you have done this for long enough (probably a few minutes) you will feel very relaxed. Following, is a short section on remote viewing with special regard to the meme of watching TV...once you have read this, add it on after doing what has already been stated-
HARNESSING THE HABIT OF WATCHING TV AND FILMS
The cinema method is such an important and powerful technique because it uses the potent meme of watching television to eradicate the internal chatter meme. Since both memes are very powerful, they cancel each other out, thus providing the mental silence needed to enable a clear link between the biophysical field and the physical body's brain. This link is opened by using CRV, which then becomes a doorway when ERV is practised. Remote viewing is the most powerful initiator of psi because it is a visual psi-activisty and engages the 'watching TV and films' mem. Most people have watched hours of television since childhood. The author did not watch television until he was 12, so this meme is much weakened in him, since the neural network in the brain is most instable from birth to about five years of age. Most younger people have been highly conditioned by television, so this is the ultimate RV learning technique for them, a technique that allows them to have a mental television in their mind's eye, showing remote viewing pictures.
When one learns remote viewing, it is difficult to get the mindset needed for success because we are surrounded by people who deride the concept of psi. In Russia they have a different mindset, one that knows psi exists, so all that is left is to see how good one can become at remote viewing. The only caveat is that this was purely a military activist in the USSR, so it was tightly controlled by the KGB and the GRU. Now that Russia is a free market democracy, anyone can learn this skill.
PROTOCOLS OF THE CINEMA METHOD OF REMOTE VIEWING
1.To begin the cinema method, one has to construct a mental cinema screen in one's mind's eye.
2.This cinema screen is drawn in a clockwise direction in blue fire by the mental laser of directed attention, just prior to sending the biophysical field to the target.
3. The screen is filled in with blue fire, then becomes transparent when it is ready for remote viewing use. This may sound a little complex, but in effect what you are doing is turning on a mental television in your brain, so that you can use the screen to watch the picture broadcast by your biophysical field, which is at the target site that you are remotely viewing.
Its really weird how I always feel as if there is something else I need to do. Even when I write everything down I can possibly think of, and check it off as I go, there's still .........something. Humans have evolved to focus on many goals at once. Humans evolved as ACTIVE animals, not lazy slobs. Laziness is devolving humanity on many levels, the most obvious of which is our bodies. Everything on our bodies is designed with movement in mind. We did not evolve to the level that we are al now by sitting around and being lazy. We evolved to this point from years and years of being active (hunter-gatherers) until farming was developed, but even farming required WAY more work than most people are expected to do nowadays. Now, everything that one needs (at least, THINKS that they need) encourages individuality and selfishness. Car's, TV's, computer's, CD player's, guitar's, drugs, movies, video games, etc,;... The list goes on and on. They are all means, BUT TO WHAT END?
Many "policy papers" written by the elite (the elite being defined as, in this context-politicians, music stars, media figures, all the super-rich) talk about the need to kill a certain number of people to maintain a balance of goods because there is only so much to go around (they call this "population control"). The idea being that, with a limited amount of resources available, only a certain number of people will be able to use them all. This is a perfect idea to convince people of if one wants to horde all the goods for them selves, AND have a "logical" excuse for murdering large amounts of people.
Popular books espouse that selfishness is a virtue, that individuality is a moral, and that laziness is admirable. Do you see a pattern here? Make all people selfish, lazy, and individualistic, and the possibilities of them working together are next to zero. Dont get me wrong about individuality. I am not saying that conformity is the answer, or that all people are not different. What I AM saying is that by making individuality more important in one's mind than working together, and sharing, the elite are ensuring that we will be so busy worrying about ourselves (as opposed to THE HUMAN RACE) that we will never be able to focus long enough to figure ou what is really happening to us. AND THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT IS HAPPENING. Look around you my friend; a world full of distractions of no real value. Most being designed to keep you stationary. The worst part is; you probably think your totally cool for "not giving a fuck" and "being yourself". But the truth is, you are being decieved, in a very deep psychological way, into never seeing the forest for the trees. Meanwhile, the people in power do what they want. You dont care, as long as you have your (fill in the blank).
But its not too late. If we all start cherishing each other, start sharing with each other, and start communicating and working together towards a higher goal--we may be able to save humanity.
Remember, the critical mass for psychic transmission of any idea is 5 percent of a population. Spread this paper far and wide.
With infinite love for all of you, Lee Jarrod Evans
P.S- if you ever need help, advice, or love, please contact me....and that goes for everyone..even you..okay? love,jarrod
OK awesome update my ass!
Today is Saturday October 15th...it is 2am in the morning and Ive been up drinking and fucking!
No actually I havent had any sex today.....I know, I know.....
Anyways......
I thought I would talk about something me and my friend Melanie were talking about today. Well, I guess I brought it up. I was in the middle of one of my rants. Yelling about how people just dont fucking get it, how everyone seems to think that everything is just a big fucking game. My friend reminded me of a time when our friend Adam brought a friend of his over (I cant remember her name). We all watched a movie called "9/11 In Plane Site". If you havent seen it, I highly reccomend it. It proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that MILITARY PLANES, not Boeing 757's, crashed into the World Trade Center towers. Being as that fact (and other info in the video) is kind of hard to swallow (especially for Bush supportors, of which Adam's friend could count herself as), I have empathy for those who dont want to understand what is going on. But something she said struck me. She said, in more or less words, that everything you see in front of is a product of your imagination, therefore, the government is a product of your imagination. So, in accordance with these thoughts, if you pretend there is no overly oppresive government, there wont be one. I guess if someone is trying to murder you, you should just close your eyes and hope they go away. I hope the lunacy of that statement startles you, because it does me. This is that state we are now in. People have been misled to the point of BELIEVING that there is no reality outside of their head. WHAT BETTER STRATEGY COULD THERE POSSIBLY BE FOR PEOPLE IN POWER!?
Convince the masses that everything they see is in their head. So what do the people do? They dont try to change anything outside of themselves, they become so self-infatuated that they can think of nothing but themselves.
How have humans been conditioned to give up the quality that makes us stronger than other life forms (that quality being, if you didnt already know, our ability to SHARE our technology with each other)? Through generations of social conditioning and drug testing on unknowing human populations, the elite have made us more self-conscious than humanity has ever been.
HOW DO YOU THINK HUMANITY SURVIVED THIS LONG?
Not by them fucking selves you idiots!
We did it with help!
Cooperation among humans wasnt the only thing that accelarated our evolution.
Cooperation among live-forms created humanity and plant life as we know it today. Why else would fruits, and nuts have a reason to exist!? They are there for the sole reason of being tasty to humans and other animals. We pick them up and eat them. We either carry the seeds to another location or shit them out at another location. But, alas, we are no longer roaming animals. Many never travel within a hundred mile radius of their domicile.
DOES ANYONE UNDERSTAND WHAT IM SAYING HERE?
We are losing all of the qualities that have established us the top of the food-chain.
If I wore a bit more foil in my tin foil hat, I would think that someone is preparing us to be a slave race for someone else....Ill leave you to ponder that.
I just want you all to understand what is happening.
THEY ARE FATTENING YOU UP.
THEY HAVE MADE LAZINESS COOL.
THEY HAVE MADE SELFISHNESS A VIRTUE.
THEY ARE MAKING WRONG RIGHT, AND RIGHT WRONG.
If you dont get it, then hopefully this will be your fucking zen-slap.
wakeup, or there will be no human race in a few years.....
No, today isREALLY Thursday october 13th, I was wrong on that date. The show would be sooner.
Anyways, I thought I'd do some kind of awesome update for you guys since I've got the internet at home.
I just woke up.
My teeth hurt nowadays. Especially this upper back right one. They said it needs a root canal because its dying. They (the periodontists') also said that the surgery would cost over 2,000 dollars. Well, shit...Maybe I'll have the money after I start my new job. I still have not gotten the offer letter from MCI, so they will be hearing from me today. I walked out of Malco yesterday. I went in and Valerie immediately started accusing me of opening a package of hot dogs. I told her I didnt. She said that she knew I did it. I said I didnt. On and On....Its been like that ever since I started there. I constant stream of accusations. Valerie sucks at being a boss. She just turns into a bitch, everyword that she says. Maybe its just me. But I know its not, because other people who work there think she's a bitch too, they're just too young to fight the power. I just walked out. The trouble that she gives me is worth another 2 dollars an hour. Not 5.25 an hour. Fuck that. It seems as if all of the jobs that pay that type of measly salary are easily quitable to me. Although, I decided to do this when Steve hasnt even turned in my Food Stamp papers yet. Maybe he wont even turn them in. That would suck.
Anyways, Ive got two big shows coming up.
One at the Pho Hoa Binh in memphis.
One at the Edge coffeehouse in Jonesboro.
I feel so bittersweet about many people in Jonesboro.
Its hard to explain what has happened.
Well, things changed when my Dad went to prison. I wouldnt acknowledge it for a while, but its true. Everything seems more urgent, as if this happening to my Dad has woken me up about how quick my life could be. I mean, his life is not over by any means (he's just now about 50), but the point is, you never know what may happen, so you need to work hard now and not later.
TODAY IS MONDAY OCTOBER 15TH....
I just wrote a whole bunch of stuff and accidently erased it. Isnt that the most annoying feeling?
Well, here is what WAS here in a shorter format.
First I told you about the shows coming up.
LAROMLAB (from ketucky)
Jet Jaguar KR3 Kill Spree
and Aspartame
FRIDAY OCTOBER 21ST AT THE VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT PHO HOA BINH BESIDES MURPHYS
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I dont know how many of you read this ("of you", being constituted by, my friends and people who know me), but I hope you all know that my heart is in this totally. This is what I want my life to be. I want it to be about informing people. I want it to be about caring for the person next to me. I want it to be communal in nature. There is so much that is not communal and that is uncaring about our society. Besides that, I feel that I can communicate with over half of you. Everyday I see how our human race has been divided OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, to the point where all that is really left of us is individuality.
HUMANITY AND EVERYONE WHO IS ALIVE NEEDS TO HEAR THIS.
Individuality will not save you when times are truly hard.
I always wondered why I couldnt stand Ayn Rand, but Ive finally been able to put my finger on it. Her writings are contributing full force to the destroying of humanity. How is that?
Her books look up to selfishness as the highest moral. This is the highest folly.
Her followers either become mindless followers of her religion of selfishness, or adamant Satanists out to do harm to others.
Friends and former friends who read this, THIS IS NO JOKE.
My past friends consist of a who's who of Anti-Christian, Anti-God, Anti-social, Anti-Government, and Anti-moral individuals. I consider myself to formally be one of these so-called "anti's". They seem to always be looking for some way or reason OR EXCUSE to dislike the common man. In other words, their personality is so judgemental, that they must come up with some intellectual, or otherwise, reason to PUT THEMSELVES ABOVE others. If they had to go against Gandhi himself, they may do so, just to prove their point. To sacrifice themselves at the alter of selfishness and individuality.
Humanity would not exist how it is today without the humans helping other humans.
Besides that, OUR PLANET EARTH would not exist how it is today without cooperation among species and lifeforms. NOT JUST COOPERATION FROM A MERELY HUMAN PERSPECTIVE.
Do you see what Im getting at?
By destroying our ability to get along as simply ONE HUMAN RACE WITH THE SAME GOALS, they are making us "individuals" with goals CONTRADICTORY to each other.
Look at fruit and nut bearing plants.
Their mere existence necessitates evolution between plants and humans, two TOTALLY DIFFERENT UNIQUE LIFE FORMS.
You pick a fruit or nut off the tree or the ground below. You move on. Shit it out the next day somewhere else. YOU HAVE JUST ASSISTED IN THE SEXUAL PROPAGATION OF A LIFE-FORM PHYSICALLY SEPARATE FROM YOU.
Have you ever done anything similar for your own human race?
Much less, someone that you dont know?
Im going to link to a book that is about this very subject with special concern given to Ayn Rand.
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Since my last update, many people have died and suffered greatly thanks to some pesky levies in New Orleans. Lets be honest here, we would not have had such a high loss of human life if these levies had not broke. Did we know that the levies were a danger and that they simply werent high enough? Yes. Read this from the June 2003 issue of Civil Engineering Magazine.
"If a storm of category 4 or 5 were to hit New Orleans before the city was adequately prepared, what toll would it exact?
In the 1980s Joseph Suhayda, then a coastal oceanographer in the civil engineering department at Louisiana State University (LSU), began to seek an answer to this question by simulating storms with a modified version of a hurricane model used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Suhayda first began modeling the storms to help parishes in southeastern Louisiana determine appropriate flood elevations for FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program. As his modeling capabilities improved, he began to more closely investigate the level of protection provided by the levees encircling New Orleans.
Suhayda’s model contains a geographic information system overlay that divides a fairly large boundary, from Alabama to Texas, into 0.6 mi (1 km) grids containing information about ground elevations, land masses, and waterways. The FEMA hurricane model does not draw on the same processing power as AdCirc and in general produces more liberal projections of flooding from storm surges. But by solving numerical equations representing a storm’s pressure, wind forces, and forward velocity, Suhayda was able to use the model to predict the storm surge associated with an actual hurricane dozens of hours before it hit land. By subtracting the elevations on a topographical map of coastal Louisiana from those surge values, he was able to approximate the flood risk of a given storm.
In the 1990s, Suhayda began modeling category 4 and 5 storms hitting New Orleans from a variety of directions. His results were frightening enough that he shared them with emergency preparedness officials throughout Louisiana. If such a severe storm were to hit the city from the southwest, for instance, Suhayda’s data indicate that the water level of Lake Pontchartrain would rise by as much as 12 ft (3.7 m). As the storm’s counterclockwise winds battered the levees on the northern shore of the city, the water would easily top the embankments and fill the streets to a depth of 25 ft (7.6 m) or more.
Suhayda’s model is not the only one that describes such a catastrophe. A model called SLOSH (Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes), which is used by the National Weather Service and local agencies concerned with emergency preparedness, portrays an equally grim outcome should a storm of category 5 hit New Orleans. The SLOSH model does not contain nearly as many computational nodes as does AdCirc, it does not use a finite-element grid to increase the resolution of the nodes on shore, and its boundary is much smaller. Even so, its results are disheartening.
“Suppose it’s wrong,” says Combe, the Corps modeler. “Suppose twenty-five feet is only fifteen feet. Fifteen feet still floods the whole city up to the height of the levees.”
Experts say a flood of this magnitude would probably shut down the city’s power plants and water and sewage treatment plants and might even take out its drainage system. The workhorse pumps would be clogged with debris, and the levees would suddenly be working to keep water in the city. Survivors of the storm,humans and animals alike, would be sharing space on the crests of levees until the Corps could dynamite holes in the structures to drain the area. In such a scenario, the American Red Cross estimates that between 25,000 and 100,000 people would die.
That prospect and the amount of time it would take the Corps to construct adequate levee protection against a storm of category 4 stregth, have inspired Suhayda to push for what he calls a community haven project. His idea is for the city to construct a 30 ft (9 m) tall wall equipped with floodgates through the center of town to protect the heart of New Orleans and such culturally important areas as the French Quarter. That portion of the city lies between two bends in the Mississippi River and is therefore already protected by adequate levees on three sides. With its gates closed, the wall would complete a waterproof ring around the area.
Suhayda says the wall would be cheaper and faster to build than the larger projects under consideration by the Corps. It could be constructed along an existing right-of-way and act as a sound wall most of time. “We’re going to build sound barriers along most of these roads anyway,” Suhayda says. “So for a small added cost, go ahead and make them capable of withstanding wind loads and hydrostatic heads.”
The Corps would not necessarily be involved in the construction of such a wall because the latter would be land based. Even so, Naomi is adamantly opposed to the idea. “How do you protect people from two-hundred-mile-per-hour winds?” he asks. “Where do they go? What buildings are designed to withstand that? Where do they get their power and their food, and where do they rest their heads at night? Just keeping the water out isn’t enough. You don’t want to give people a false sense of security by saying that this is a refuge unless you have a place for them to go.”
For the most part, New Orleans does not have places for people to go. The American Red Cross no longer provides emergency shelters in the city because its officials cannot guarantee the structural integrity of the locations. There simply are not enough buildings in the area that could withstand the forces of a category 4 or 5 storm.
During the past 10 years Marc Levitan, a wind and structural engineer and the director of LSU’s Hurricane Center, has been involved in hundreds of building investigations throughout New Orleans to determine if certain structures could be used as so-called refuges of last resort. “With the vast majority of them, if you really do an analysis, you really wouldn’t want to use them,” he says. “They all have some sort of deficiency.”
Most people would not wish to remain in the city if a category 4 or 5 storm were in prospect, but evacuating could be difficult. Experts say close to 400,000 people could be stranded in the city. There are an estimated 100,000 people without easy access to automobiles, and those who can drive may not be able to do so. During Hurricane Andrew, interstates throughout the South were brought to a standstill because simultaneous evacuations were taking place in several states. The only major planning improvement since then has been the decision to keep traffic away from the coast on both sides of evacuation routes.
Complicating the difficulty in New Orleans is the fact that each of the city’s three major evacuation routes is over or near water. Suhayda’s model indicates that during a storm of category 5 Interstate 10, which is constructed on piers for a distance of almost 20 mi (32 km) west of the city, could be covered by more than 5 ft (1.5 m) of water."
Then theres this article from National Geographic.
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The Louisiana bayou, hardest working marsh in America, is in big trouble, with dire consequences for residents, the nearby city of New Orleans, and seafood lovers everywhere.
It was a broiling August afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Big Easy, the City That Care Forgot. Those who ventured outside moved as if they were swimming in tupelo honey. Those inside paid silent homage to the man who invented air-conditioning as they watched TV "storm teams" warn of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Nothing surprising there: Hurricanes in August are as much a part of life in this town as hangovers on Ash Wednesday.
But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however, the car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw a party.
The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea level, more than eight feet below in places, also the water poured in. A liquid brown wall washed over the brick ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the Garden District, until it raced through the bars and strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of the Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet (eight meters) over parts of the city, people climbed onto roofs to escape it.
Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.
When did this calamity happen? It hasn't,...yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great.
"The killer for Louisiana is a Category Three storm at 72 hours before landfall that becomes a Category Four at 48 hours and a Category Five at 24 hours, "coming from the worst direction," says Joe Suhayda, a retired coastal engineer at Louisiana State University who has spent 30 years studying the coast. Suhayda is sitting in a lakefront restaurant on an actual August afternoon sipping lemonade and talking about the chinks in the city's hurricane armor. "I don't think people realize how precarious we are," Suhayda says, watching sailboats glide by. "Our technology is great when it works. But when it fails, it's going to make things much worse."
The chances of such a storm hitting New Orleans in any given year are slight, but the danger is growing. Climatologists predict that powerful storms may occur more frequently this century, while rising sea level from global warming is putting low-lying coasts at greater risk. "It's not if it will happen," says University of New Orleans geologist Shea Penland. "It's when." "
What about warnings specifically about the levees?
In the above latter article, the Sheriff of Placquemines Parish, Jeff Hingle, said, "After Betsy these levies were designed for a Category 3. You're now looking at a Category 5. You're looking at a storm that is as strong as Camille was, but bigger than Betsy was size-wise. These levies will not hold the water back. So we're urging people to leave. You're looking at these levies having 10 feet of water over the top of them easily."
10 feet over huh?
Read this from DailyKos, the day after Katrina hit also.
It may be too soon to be asking this question, but it has to be asked, and a comprehensive answer will be required.
Some will say the answer is obvious - the hurricane. I don't accept that. Hurricane Katrina had come and gone when the levies broke early this morning. Indeed, let's review what was said to be the great risk of Hurricane Katrina:
New Orleans faces a potential for catastrophic flooding if the storm surge reaches the predicted 18 to 22 feet. The levies along Lake Ponchartrain are just 17 feet high - lower in places. City streets could flood to depths of 20 feet, devastating the historic French Quarter, the Garden District and other tourist attractions. The city's 22 pumps could not keep up with such flooding, or even with the heaviest rains expected from the storm.
. . . In addition to deaths, Category 5 winds and the flooding of New Orleans would cause huge property losses. Insurance companies have been increasingly reluctant to sell property incurance policies in the city. Flooding would also leave behind a horrific stew of sewage, trash, storm debris, ruined possessions, petrochemicals washed in from the region's oil-related industrial infrastructure. Add alligators, snakes and fire ants to the mix ... well, it's not a pretty picture.
And the damage to the nation's oil and gas infrastructure could push gasoline and home heating costs even higher. The New Orleans region hosts about a quarter of our oil and gas production. Oil and gas pipelines crosscross the region and offshore platforms do the drilling and pumping.
. . . Buckle your seatbelts.
Well, Hurricane Katrina came and went. The storm surge came and went. And the levies did not break as a result. So what happened?
The waters of swollen Lake Pontchartrain poured into this sunken city today through a gaping hole in a storm-damaged levee, as emergency workers labored to stanch the flow and used boats and helicopters to rescue hundreds of people stranded on rooftops.
. . . In New Orleans, until last night a popular, carefree tourist destination, officials said the widespread flooding could get worse if damage to the city's protective levees was not repaired soon. Although flooding was shallow in some places, in others it was much as 20 feet, and city officials were telling people to get out, saying the municipal government itself was relocating to Baton Rouge.
The flooding in New Orleans was the result of large breach in a levee on a canal that keeps the waters of Lake Pontchartrain out of the city. The hole, at the 17th Street flood wall, is at least 100 yards long and officials say it may be getting bigger. The United States Army Corps of Engineers was trying to plug the gap by using helicopters to drop huge sandbags - each weighing 3,000 pounds - into the breech. New Orleans lies mostly below sea level and is protected by a network of pumps, canals and levees. But many of the pumps were not working this morning. CNN reported that the storm caused another breach at Industrial Canal, and that corps officials feared another gap forming near Pumping Station No. 6.
The water coming through the first gap gushed into residential areas and moved down into the center of the city toward the Mississippi River, but so far, the French Quarter was dry. Other hazards arose.
Honestly, did the people in charge just go off duty once the hurricane passed by New Orleans yesterday afternoon? Was no one monitoring the levies and the working of the pumps?
With due respect to all involved, what in the hell were they doing from yesterday afternoon till this morning? Everyone was told that the MAJOR threat was the breaking of the levies. How can you then ignore this AFTER the storm passes? At first blush, this seems inexcusable.
Update [2005-8-30 23:8:35 by Armando]: Larry in NYC suggests that the levies actually broke during the hurricane but that the breaks were not discovered until this morning. First, that seems far fetched to me. But more importantly, supposing that Larry is right, that seems a more damning indictment to me. Why were the levies not carefully checked YESTERDAY after the hurricane passed? Would that not have been the first thing to do? "
Are you starting to get the same idea as me? This is starting to look really damning for the federal government as far as Im concerned. You read it, THE HURRICANE CAME AND WENT.
THE STORM SURGE CAME AND WENT.
THEN THE LEVIES BROKE.
Some think the levies were intentionally blown up, in fact, many heard a large explosion.
Ill continue this disection of the Hurricane Katrina story later. I got to take care of some business. Here are some more stories to wet your whistle on this important topic-