2 days ago by Froggy

The Rachel Maddow Show was from New Orleans Friday. Lots of good local stuff, from the Who Dats to Po-boys from Parkway Bakery and the Sazerac cocktail. However probably the highlight from the standpoint of reporting was the segment on the levees and floodcontrol, featuring Rachel with local writer ...

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3 days ago by sm

http://www.levees.org Few people understand what really happened in New Orleans or what caused it. Fewer still realize that they too may be living under a similar or an even greater threat. This video exposes the key myths and misunderstandings about the New Orleans flood.

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5 days ago by Craig Considine

The following is a transcript from an interview in February of 2009 with Abdulrahman Zeitoun conducted by Professor Akbar Ahmed and team as part of the Journey into America study. Here is a summary of a review of David Eggers’ book ‘Zeitoun’ from The New Yorker: Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a successful Syr ...

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6 days ago by Cathleen Miller

River Gauge, circa 1850 One of the remarkable components of the A.A. Humphreys papers is the documentation of the surveys the U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers conducted during the 1850s and 1860s. These surveys were done in response to repeated flooding along the Mississippi Delta. Humphreys wa ...

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12 days ago by admin

With less than twenty four hours to go before hurricane Katrina hit land my wife and I started to pack up the car to leave St Bernard Parish Louisiana. We had to have the brakes repaired only an hour before we left. We had to depend on the kindness of a neighbor who was frantically working on the ca ...

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12 days ago by quintascott

To understand why oil exploration and extraction from the Louisiana Coastal Wetlands has been so destructive to them, you have to first understand how tidal exchange nourished the wetlands before the construction of the Mississippi River levees after the Flood of 1927. Before the levees the Mississi ...

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16 days ago by Domino

Bannockburn Bore Stone & Flagstaff Stirling 1920s #848 Pwllheli – Harbour & Town – Caernarvonshire 1970s #847 CONDITION: Great condition History/Description: Land in the vicinity of Bannockburn village, probably between the Pelstream and Bannock burns (streams) was the site of the Battle of Bannockb ...

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16 days ago by lexis2praxis

There’s a great deal of talk about debris found in levees along Lake Pontchartrain. The skinny is this: Levees are made of dirt. Prior to Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers made some levees larger by adding additional dirt. Back then, it is said, contractors were told to use what they call the “vi ...

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25 days ago by STaT

01. (00:01:35) Jay Electronica – Spark It Up (Intro) 02. (00:02:38) Jay Electronica – Renaissance Man 03. (00:04:27) Jay Electronica – My World (Nas Salute) 04. (00:02:36) Jay Electronica – Extra Extra 05. (00:03:31) Jay Electronica – Abaracadabra 06. (00:03:58) Jay Electronica – Uzi Weighs A Ton 07 ...

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53 days ago by galan05

This compact, low-lying, friendly country is worth a look…and so are the measures its people take to protect it. Netherlands storm surge barrier Mention the Netherlands among your friends in the States and what you’re likely to get back are: a) jokes about windmills and wooden shoes, or b) grins and ...

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