Somebody wrote:

Oh puhleeze! The fact is that money was provided to the city of
NOLA in
years past. Rampant corruption funneled a significant amount of that
money
away from the levee projects that were to be reinforced.
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Since long before Huey Long, Louisiana has been known for great food,
great music, and rampant corruption.

Fortunately, none of that has anything to do with the necessity of
saving human life in an emergency, a job which unfortunately fell to
FEMA, which had been systematically stripped of it's resources since 2000.

Lew