“There is an eaglet. I was out there (Wednesday) afternoon, and I saw it from the top of the levee with a spotting scope. I saw the head of one; it popped up, and (the adults) were feeding it.”
Charlie Deutsch
“The levee failures we saw were in areas of the projects that were at their full project design. So that part of the project was in place and had this project been fully complete ... it's my opinion, based on the intensity of this storm, that the flooding of the Central Business District and the French Quarter would still have occurred.”
Carl Strock
“I heard from a reliable source who saw a 25-foot-deep crater under the levee breach. It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry.”
Louis Farrakhan
“This is not a new levee breach up there. It's just that the old one hasn't been repaired.”
Bob Benjamin
“there would be overflow from the levee, maybe a small break in the levee. The collapse of a significant portion of the levee leading to the very fast flooding of the city was not envisioned.”
Michael Chertoff
“The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway, ... ...Among the five hundred miles of levee deficiencies now calling for attention along the Mississippi River, the most serious happen to be in New Orleans...the levees tend to sink as well. They press down on the muck beneath them and squirt materials out to the sides...The guide levees, ring levees, spillways and floodways that dangle and swing from Old River are here because people, against odds, willed them to be here.”
John McPhee
“If we don't undertake the levee reconstruction and coastal restoration, we're just leaving New Orleans more vulnerable than it was before.”
Ivor van Heerden
