September 02, 2005

Reuters: POTUS Denies Anyone Knew, Despite Times-Picayune Published Studies that Levees Vulnerable

Reuters:"In comments on Thursday, President George W. Bush said, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."

But Louisiana State University engineer Joseph Suhayda and others have warned for years that defenses could fail. In 2002, the New Orleans Times Picayune published a five-part series on "The Big One" examining what might happen if they did."

Models predicted New Orleans disaster, experts say - Yahoo! News

Posted by dougsimpson at September 2, 2005 12:26 PM