LEVEE BUILT WRONG BILLIONS WASTED

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Subj: MAYDAY FINAL WARNING MESSAGE-NEW ORLEANS LEVEE BUILT WRONG-ARE OTHERS IN US WRONG?
Date: 9/14/2005 7:32:03 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: backflow.prevention@verizon.net
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Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, Governor Bush and others:

Now that President Bush has accepted full responsibility for the failure of the Federal Government response to Hurricane Katrina let me thank him as an American screaming at times for implementation of changes which may save lives in the future. PLEASE LOOK AT THE ENTIRE LEVEE AREA PERSONALLY ON A BOAT IF NECESSARY AND MEASURE THE SUPPORT AND BACKING MATERIALS. When you wash your dog in a wading pool fill it and drop a horse on it upside down... same principle applies to the levee area IMHO. Flimsy walls will rupture while other damaged areas of the wading pool are injured but stay upright.

As a FINAL WARNING let me state that before this emergency there was no personal knowledge or even caring to look at the LEVEE structure around New Orleans which, thanks to ABC NEWS has been shown to be mere INTERSTATE TEMPORARY LANE SEPARATION we see here in Florida on our Interstate system. At first, my thoughts were that the LEVEE would resemble the 'Great Wall of China' or the HOOVER DAM upper structure where a full size LEVEE utilizing poured CONCRETE AND STEEL POURED resembling a dam outer wall. ABC NEWS footage showed little more than a thin steel and concrete vertical barricade made like normal walls around our sub-divisions seen by many Real Estate professionals in Florida and across the Nation. Such WALLS, if properly sealed can indeed keep out the splashes from roadways as cars drive in flooded streets or keep out the sprinkler wash from our yards. A simple driver losing control of a 5,000 pound vehicle normally plows through the fence or wall area and sometimes winds up in a pool or inside a home before stopping. Right now all levee surface area looks vulnerable to damage from a number of sources and in fact the pressure and damage failures which will appear in the future could be hidden without full XRAY of the entire sections which would take time and tons of film. A solution is perhaps at hand which must be considered by the OTHER experts like engineers and specialists OUTSIDE THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS who reportedly put up and maintain this flimsy structure to date.

My FINAL WARNING AND SOLUTION is as follows:

The CNN/ABC news showed repairs to a levee section spanning perhaps 200 feet and the repair segment was wide enough for massive trucks to take debris and bulldoze it into a sound structure of concrete, rocks and steel and when deep enough and wide enough the leak stopped. Other areasa of the LEVEE look like a 2 foot thick seawall behind some beach areas with NO SAND OR DIRT SUPPORT toward the populated areas.

ANY OBVIOUS SOLUTION would be to keep that support method going FULL LENGHT INSIDE THE EXISTING LEVEE AREA then pouring steel supported concrete down between the new GREAT WALL TOP TO THE OLD LEVEE now that the steel and concrete are going to be in large supply due to damage. Such consideration by Engineers and SPECIALISTS from Universities and Private Sector may immediately strengthen a weakened LEVEE area before more failures occur which are anticipated and predictable.

What was visible on ABC and CNN coverage plus increasingly shown by a brave NEWS HELICOPTER CREW filming from the start, remained the true nature of the LEVEE WALL FORMED TO BE PRETTY AND INNEFECTIVE holding back perhaps five feet of water like a wading pool for a child holds water when filled with a hose at a residence. The FIRE FIGHTING WATER BUCKET from a helicopter dropped on that wading pool in a back yard would cause immediate failure of the wading pool walls like the present LEVEE idea illustrated with the entire GULF pushing inward on a wall of water 20 feet high.

I was on a destroyer in the Med when a freak wave and rocking took off ALL STEEL RADIO RECEPTION ANTENNAE on both Port and Starboard sides of the carrier while they were lowered to CATAPULT OR CAPTURE ON DECK ONE AIRCRAFT FOR MAIL. The destroyer radio crews re-transmitted the entire NSS broadcast to the carrier saving embarassment and new radio ANTENNAE were delivered in SPAIN to the Carrier. [1960's verifiable story] Water force is already a known factor after the TSUNAMI films were shown. The downward pressure from a high wall is crushing as divers on honeymoon were pushed to the bottom as the wave went overhead yet survived.

CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL IS THERE WAITING TO BE BROUGHT DOWN AND REMOVED. DIRT OR FILL SAND can be brought in if necessary for building a NEW INTERIOR LEVEE behind the existing structure. When you have MILLIONS OF TONS of concrete getting ready to be jack-hammered or 'pulled down' with familiar destruction methods for removal to dumps or shipping out to sea for reefs I would suggest making a fully functional WALL OF CHINA like configuration where trucks can drive the entire LEVEE AREA and concrete can be poured FULL THICKNESS AND DEPTH LIKE A DAM WALL from the NEW supported 20 foot wide area to the present levee.

Here in Florida we place STEEL PILING MATERIALS INTERLOCKING INTO THE WATER AREA THEN POUR CONCRETE BETWEEN THE LAND AND STEEL PILINGS and we get a sound structure able to withstand water and waves. The single 2 foot wide structure 8 feet tall observed at beaches separates one Hotel property line from another and juts out into the water for a short distance. Every major storm trashes these structures when there is insufficient support on the INSIDE.

Any Tsunami level 20 foot high wave would go 10 feet OVER the existing NEW LEVEE but the force would be minimal to a DAM type structure and remain entact and NOW IS THE TIME TO REVIEW AND CORRECT THE MISTAKES before New Orleans is HIT AGAIN.

The MAYDAY FINAL WARNING MESSAGE applies to ALL MILITARY BASES AND SHORELINES IN CONUS AND ALL ISLANDS as a Tsunami may be generated in the future or a CAT 4 or CAT 5 push water into any area of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Thank you and GOD'S SPEED on this modification.

Ralph Charles Whitley, Sr.
an Old Veteran of One
Tampa, Florida USA
091405 0721 HRS Eastern