Who knew the levees would fail and when? Why wasn't the federal government inspecting the levees? It's all Bush's fault and he's in Paris 'Let them eat cake', not in Iowa filling sandbags.
WHY is the media not making this out to be as bad or worse than New Orleans?
Why aren't the Democrats using it as a wedge as they did New Orleans?
I think there is an answer and I believe the Democrats know why.
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Cedar Rapids flood recedes; Des Moines levee fails
Jun 14, 6:44 PM (ET)
By MICHAEL J. CRUMB and JIM SUHR
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - The dark, filthy water that flooded Iowa's second-largest city finally started to recede Saturday after forcing 24,000 people to flee, but those who remained were urged to cut back on showering and flushing to save the last of their unspoiled drinking water.
A sandbagging siege saved the last of the city's four collection wells from contamination by the record flood. But officials warned that if people didn't cut back the water will run out within three to four days.
"Water is still our primary concern," said Pat Ball, the city's utilities director. "We're still using water at a greater rate than we're producing."
More than 400 city blocks and 3,900 homes were flooded in Cedar Rapids, where early estimates put property damage at $736 million, according fire department spokesman Dave Koch.
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama toured Quincy and helped fill sandbags Saturday.
"Since I've been involved in public office we've not seen this kind of devastation," Obama said of the Midwest flooding. He vowed to push the federal and state governments to provide needed aid to the stricken areas.
[I guess Barrack forgot about New Orleans in 2005? he was in public office at that time, correct? Oh, a small gaffe, and because it's Obama and he's a democrat, it's ok. When Bush makes any gaffe, it's supporting documentation that he is incompetent. How many gaffe's does it take to make incompetence?
How about New Orleans, where, apparently, $4 billion spent to reinforce levee's isn't working, and it will happen again, BUT we don't hear anyone in New Orleans warning ... they'd just as soon see it happen again and fault Bush, again.]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Despite more than $22 million in repairs, a levee that broke with catastrophic effect during Hurricane Katrina is leaking again because of the mushy ground on which New Orleans was built, raising serious questions about the reliability of the city's flood defenses.
Outside engineering experts who have studied the project told The Associated Press that the type of seepage spotted at the 17th Street Canal in the Lakeview neighborhood afflicts other New Orleans levees, too, and could cause some of them to collapse during a storm.
The Army Corps of Engineers has spent about $4 billion so far of the $14 billion set aside by Congress to repair and upgrade the metropolitan area's hundreds of miles of levees by 2011. Some outside experts said the leak could mean that billions more will be needed and that some of the work already completed may need to be redone.
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