A unified regional levee board will be more cost effective, efficient and allow for necessary expertise to provide independent oversight for the Army Corps of Engineers levee projects. |
It's pretty amazing that a business can be virtually shut down and be back up and running almost fully in 10 days. |
We always had contingency plans for a possible disaster in either New Orleans or on the Gulf Coast, but we never really planned on a storm so large that it would have an impact on both places. |