We always were afraid the bowl that is New Orleans would fill quickly. Now with the water rising today, it appears to be filling slowly.
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We really felt all along that the Corps was a group that we could absolutely trust. They wouldn't do sloppy work, or allow sloppy work. They realized that this community basically lives and dies on the strength of those levees. Now, what's happened -- it's like finding out that your mother lied to you all the years of your life.Walter Maestri
This is what we've been saying has been going to happen for years.
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He feels the parish has come back enough. That was his commitment that he could bring more and more people in as the infrastructure would admit.
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We're six months from the next hurricane season. There is no way known to man, with all of our technology, that we can deal with all of this. And I don't know that any of us can tell people that they should come back and experience this again.
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