If you were a Katrina refugee, like from New Orleans, you probably have a well-developed distaste for these levee things. Like all of our fathers, they hung around for most of our lives only to utterly fail to provide any sort of aid the first moment we needed them. Katrina refugees, just like you have a healthy loathing for levees, you might also live in Dallas! I’ve seen your pelican-themed license plates and NFL Saints bumper stickers, don’t lie. Anyway, enjoy every bit of this good news:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is no longer certain the Trinity River levees can protect downtown Dallas from a flood like the one that took place in 1990. Flaws up and down the 80-year-old earthen dikes have raised questions about their integrity, and could require massive fixes.
The corps issued those bleak assessments Wednesday as part of a final report on its 2007 inspection of the levees. The problems identified range from deep layers of sand that could complicate construction of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge to “severe” cracking throughout the levees that could be difficult and costly to repair
It looks like the Levee either wants to finish you off (tragic!) or perhaps encourage you to relocate back to New Orleans? I hear the city could use the help.
