One thing the city of New Orleans has had to overcome post-Katrina, besides rebuilding our city, is a constant fight over the truth - the facts - about Katrina and what it did to our city. Specifically, many Americans believe that the storm itself flooded New Orleans and not a series of levee and flood wall breaches.
Levees.org is a local post-Katrina group dedicated to making sure the true cause of the catastrophic flooding that crushed our city immediately after Katrina is known everywhere. They recently sent a proposal to state and federal officials requesting that 2 of the major breach sites should be placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The state's review board shot down the request by a two-thirds vote immediately.
The two flood wall breaches, one at the Industrial Canal in the Lower 9th Ward and the other in Lakeview off of the 17th Street Canal, are obviously significant and historic. These two sites in particular are most responsible for the majority of flood waters that inundated over 80% of our city. For the state's review board to not acknowledge these two obviously historic sites is ridiculous.
Thank goodness the Levees.org crew sent the request in to the Feds without the state's approval, which actually wasn't even necessary. It just would have looked better with the state's blessing.
What's most scary about this is the state's review board itself seems to have some members on it that do not understand the significance of the levee breaches and how they caused the clear majority of destruction to our city. How can we expect the rest of the country to understand what really happened to New Orleans when significant members of our own state's review board don't? Hopefully the Feds do the right thing in spite of the state's review board decision.
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