Dams are politically incorrect, even though levees are inherently unstable.
John Doolittle
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Save the stonewall to build the levees.
Lloyd Doggett
The Corps knew, everybody knew, that the levees had limited capability.
Joseph Suhayda
They've done lots of work on the levees, and nobody expected them to break. If it hadn't been for the canal break we wouldn't have had all this nonsense.
Keith Faulkner
Every year you hear the stories of what would happen if the levees broke.
Glenn King
We cannot see the tops of the levees.
Larry Ingargiola
There's only two kinds of levees, ... Ones that have failed and those that will fail.
Jane Bullock
The more levees broke, the more anxious you got. It was hard, but we made it through and we'll make it through.
Tracy Davis
We are here so our voices can be heard, so our lives and our levees can be rebuilt, so we can go home.
Dorothy Stukes
Levees would have been higher, levees would have been bigger, there would have been other pumps put in.
Mike Parker
[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal government refused to spend the money to improve the levees.
Benigno Aguirre
What broke on Lake Pontchartrain were huge levees. And from what I've seen they are well maintained.
Larry Reed
There's very little mitigation going on, and it's because it's so expensive to do, just like it was so expensive to fix the levees. So I think we would have the same reaction: Why didn't we fix those buildings? Why didn't we fix the infrastructure?
Chris Poland
Lewisville by itself, if breeched, could send enough water to overtop the Dallas levees.
David Wilson
It was storm surge. It broke protection levees and washed out bridges.
Sheriff Michael Couvillon
Levees are a double-edged sword; they give people a false sense of security.
Theodore Steinberg
It came close, but the levees are holding.
Bob Turner
They can't move until we know they're safe. When the levees broke, it threw us a curve. They can't drive in because roads are out and they can't fly in because airports are closed.
Billie Cathey
In a slow-moving Category 5 hurricane, the levees are not going to hold.
Joannes Westerink
That's what is piling up that water. All of this flow is building up because it's being caught by something - shallow water or the levees.
Joannes Westerink
The same levees that made New Orleans inhabitable have now made New Orleans uninhabitable.
Mike Tidwell
I mean, just from thunderstorms, they flood. So, you know, once those levees broke, I knew it was over.
Karl Hankton
This was a man-made disaster caused by the failure of the federal government to properly construct the levees and caused by the failure of the local guys to notice.
Jay Lapeyre
Certainly we're not going to be able to restore the levees back to their original protection before the end of hurricane season.
Duane Gapinski
We've included features that weren't in the original proposal, ... Our concentration before was on the Rio Grande levees. Now we're focusing on the floodway levees too.
Carlos Marin
There are lots of ways for levees to fail. Overtopping is just one of them.
Michael Lindell
The levees are a blessing and a problem.
Madhu Beriwal
These levees should have been expected to perform adequately at these levels if they had been designed and constructed properly, ... Not just human error was involved. There may have been malfeasance.
Raymond Seed
At least 50 percent of them want to come home. The most important thing for them is safe levees.
Linda Jeffers
Obviously it was a total fiasco of lack of response. He was given warning. He knew the levees were going to break.
Ellen Taylor
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