Not yet, but maybe.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to use funds currently assigned to pay for repairs to levees on the east bank of the Mississippi to instead fund repairs on the west bank of the Mississippi. The Corps notes that the west bank now has most of the people, and therefore should get priority.
But.
Most of New Orleans is on the west bank.
This should be more fun to watch than a pair of mud-wrestling roller-derby drag queens.
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[...] Levee War in NOLAThe U.S. Corps of Engineers wants to shift funds for rebuilding levees to where the people are from where the people were. No, folks: this isn’t satire. It’s likely to work itself out as a painful true-life farce. [...]