Nope,
sorry Fen,
your definition is a wee bit off.
<a-hem>
A New Orleans levee is a long lump of sodden earth with or most likely without a skinny wall of under-spec concrete or metal rising from it.
The levee is purposefully built to withstand weak force three hurricanes if they don't actually come near and in special areas where the untended earthworks have been allowed to rustically age, (and subside two feet), can withstand mediun force two storms.
All public and governmental monies allocated for the repair, improvement and maintenance of this levee must first be distributed to local and state politicians for the proper initial dispursal into such public projects as summer homes in Maine, greens fees in South Carolina and yacht maintenance in Hawaii. After such dispursal the tax-paying citizens are then "trickled on" with any remaining funds.
When a rare summer Gulf storm
does eventually hit this levee and by some strange slip of fate breaks it in at least three huge spots and flows over the top in ten other places it is then time for the politicians to wander around in confusion and tell the population that they will do everything they can to help them and may Dog bless, none of us saw this ever happening.
Fal "trickled on" con
"He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed."
- The history of Paul Revere's
midnight ride, by Sarah Palin.
