Levee Quotes

The greatest Rock`n`Roll drummer of all time was John Bonham who did things that nobody had ever even thought possible before with the drum kit. And also the greatest sound out of his drums - they sounded enormous, and just one bass drum. So fast on it that he did more with one bass drum than most people could do with three, if they could manage them. And he had technique to burn and fantastic power and tremendous feel for rock`n`roll. "When the levee breaks" is the archetypal heavy drum sound - it`s never been bettered - it`s like a steamroller, enormous bass drum. Simple but takes feel.

We`re really on the horns of a dilemma, ... And it seems to me that the levee needs to be preserved until ... everybody sits down together and comes up with a global solution to this problem.

Even though it was affected by the hurricane, it wasn`t in the area where the levee broke.

They are continuing levee security patrolling and sandbagging operations.

Metropolitan New Orleans can take about 6 inches of rain. Though a concern, it`s not our main concern. . . . Storm surge is the real issue because it stresses the levee repairs and some areas that we haven`t had time to assess and repair.

We`re not worried about the Mississippi River levee. Is it a concern? Yes, it is a concern, but it is not a top concern.

Instead of water flooding in, we`ve got people flooding in. The levee of people broke.

Her home had damage, not flood water. She is west of the levee break. Her large family room roof had been pulled up and rainwater ran down the dry wall, and some of it fell onto the floor, making a mess. Her kitchen window was blown out and water got in that way,

When you compare 1.3 for a levee safety factor with another safety factor that may be used in a different type structure, you don`t always have an apples-to-apples comparison.

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

We need to figure out a way in which we can block the funnel effect from New Orleans east and then plan such that we can do the same thing on the west bank. Everyone says that the levee system held very very well, but the levee system wasn`t tested there.

It`s not that people are willfully saying we`re only going to build it to a Category 3 (rating), and that`s where we`ll stop. It`s just that`s as far as the levee system had developed,

Pam simulated a large amount of water being swept from Lake Pontchartrain over the levee into the bowl of new Orleans,