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      Posted by Damianmann from Times Picayune

      To the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the flood-protection system surrounding greater New Orleans was just another levee project. Many such projects are located in sparsely populated areas and merely keep water away from cattle and cane fields. So they are designed to a lower safety standard than, say, dams. Our area's levees and floodwalls were built to that same relatively low standard. The hundreds of thousands of lives that depended on the integrity of those structures apparently didn't factor into the plans.

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    Mercenary Outfit Send Mass Email Offering Positions in the Wake of Gustav

    One of the many tragedies of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina three years ago was the fact that insurance companies used the event to systematically deny claims, leaving victims further in desperate straits. That shouldn’t happen following any natural disaster, and even though the immediate storm effects did not cause as much damage as predicted, there are sure to be plenty of claims for flood damages throughout the Midwest and along Gustav’s path. If you or someone you know has been denied an insurance claim related to Gustav: http://www.gustav-insurance-claim-denials.com/ that would be a site you should visit.
     

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