Robert Bea Quotes

The thinking was, those levees are just protecting farmland. But time goes on. We continue to develop, but we are dragging this 1.3 with us. We upgrade the levee system after (Hurricane) Betsy with better flood protection, but that 1.3 is still there. History has moved, but the corps hasn't.

- Robert Bea

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It didn't hold. There isn't a door, and they've got measly sandbags they're putting in to compensate. - Robert Bea