There were two big problems, as I see it, tied to the New Orleans levee failures. Money and human apathy. In order to keep the levees in good condition it takes a lot of time and money. They have to constantly be maintained, and the benefits of this constant maintenance aren't readily apparent to the general public or administrative officials in charge of funding. The fact is the levee's more or less did their jobs for decades, which makes it a lot easier to ignore the problems it had. The general public doesn't think about it, because it hasn't been a threat, and the administrators who're told there's a threat easily blow it off, cause nothing has happened yet, and it'd cost a heap money to fix.

I used to work in an IS/IT department, and the song was pretty much the same there. None of the administration wanted to implement safety based protocols because they'd cost time, money, and cause inconvenience. It wasn't until after something happened everyone would go into, "OH SHIT WE NEED TO FIX THIS" mode. Perhaps the admins at the company I worked for were particularly retarded (which wouldn't surprise me), but I feel like I run into that attitude a lot, and I think that's what happened in New Orleans, and what's still happening there and in other cities threatened by poorly engineered/maintained levees.

Below sea level...once the hurricaines render it uninhabitable, the U.S. those who control the Government will perhaps secure this important port city for their own....
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/

Its fine if people want to live in a geographically dangerous area...just don't make me pay for it. My states entire budget is approximately $4 billion a year. So the $100 billion dollar in damages could fund all the operations in my state for 25 years.

People have apathy because they know when something happens, someone else is gonna pay for it/take care of it. If there wasn't someone to bail them out, I bet they would have spent a little more money maintaining those levees.

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/

hmmm, HAARP is located in -Alaska- eh.
Probably just a coincidence.

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