Talk:Hurricane preparedness in New Orleans/Archive 1

message: Under the wetlands loss section, I deleted:
"Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, told the New Orleans Times-Picayune (June 8, 2004): "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us." "
This was already set forth in the section addressing funding of levees.
Whitfield Larrabee 01:21, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed duplicate information 

message: Merge with Predictions of hurricane risk for New Orleans to form something like New Orleans' preparedness for Hurricane Katrina. Rd232 19:46, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion of article move proposal 

message: As I said, the only reason for featuring this obviously uniformed quote is to gain partisan advantage.  It violates NPOV to include it in this article. At least move it to Political effects of Hurricane Katrina and let it be hammered on over there.  If there is fault, it lies with the staff that didn't properly brief the President.  He can't be expected to personally master the underlying causes for every potential disaster in advance, or nothing except CYA would be accomplished.--Kbk 17:56, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Bush Quote

message: Beyond wondering what it is doing in the international perspective section, what is the evidence of a policy "reversal" in 2003 rather than mere budgeting issues?  --Silverback 10:47, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
:Hi, Silverback. I guess you are referring to the table on the right hand side of the International perspective section. This has probably slipped down, due to various edits. I managed to move it up a bit. Is all OK now? Leistung 15:33, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  international perspective nee policy reversal in 2003 

message: The link to the arial photograph of the Levee breach does not show a satelite photo of the 17th Street area.  It appears to be of the 37-39th Street Area, possibly another area where the levee was breached.  For this reason, it seems to me to be misleading.  The material that seems incorrect and objectionable to me states:  "However, it should be noted that aerial photographs place this breach in a part of the canal levee that is wholly separate from the construction area.[26]"  clicking on the link, there is a map function that shows the area of the city at issue.  I do not see any indication that the link shows the 17th Street area.  Thus is appears that the sentence does not reference the area of canal identified in the preceding sentence.
I will hold off on modifying this to see of anyone has any comment on this issue.
Whitfield Larrabee 16:49, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aerial foto of 37th - 39th street levee needs better description 

message: This connection on some Dutch commentary not only doesn't fit in this article concerning New Orleans preparedness, it is confusing to read. Only since 1953 were the Dutch tackling the problem of flooding? It's just strange, that some guy says he's surprised at what happened with the levee system in New Orleans and in the paragraph there's a decription of a catastrophe in which twice as many people died ... in a Western country.
Also, there is more news coming out about what exactly did happen in New Orleans. As far as I've read, only floodwalls were broken, which for some engineers may have been caused by faulty design or construction. Or from putting the pumps on too early. Anyway, this section of the article is confusing.
Whyerd 16:11, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete "An international perspective?