I'd call it a design omission.

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The reason it immediately shows up on my radar screen as being horribly low is because the soils are so variable.

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It was like uncorking a bottle.

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It didn't hold. There isn't a door, and they've got measly sandbags they're putting in to compensate.

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The center of New Orleans is certainly not protection of farmland, so the factor of safety was incredibly low. We're talking about thousands of families without homes and shutting down a commercial infrastructure that's pretty darn important to the United States.

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This margin of safety was incredibly low.

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We're still viewing it as cows eating grass, and it isn't.

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The problem is not technological, it's organizational.

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The whole rebuilding of this infrastructure is, I think, a critical issue for us to come to grips with.

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