Sunday, December 20, 2009

Harry Shearer Joins National Levee Safety Campaign

The Midwest calamity has alive America to a actuality laid bald by Hurricane Katrina but overshadowed by the abomination of the bootless response. But already again, the consequence of declining infrastructure, accurately noncombatant engineered levees, is afore the American people. On Friday, a flood aegis accumulation founded in New Orleans will barrage a attack to arm American citizens with ability on whether they are safe from flooding.

New Orleans, LA -- At the website of the adverse aqueduct aperture in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, a flood aegis advancement accumulation will barrage a accessible account website and attack to advance acquaintance that communities all above America are at accident of flooding.

"The Midwest calamity has spotlighted the consequence of our declining infrastructure, accurately with the abortion of engineered levees," says Sandy Rosenthal, Founder and National Spokesperson of Levees.Org which began in New Orleans afterwards Hurricane Katrina. "Once again, beach and engineering abortion and the consistent confusion is afore the American people."

The Midwest calamity has spotlighted the consequence of our declining infrastructure, accurately with the abortion of engineered levees Once again, beach and engineering abortion and the consistent confusion is afore the American people. Are you as safe as you anticipate you are? What happened actuality in New Orleans could appear anywhere, to you I anticipation humans adapted to apperceive whether or not they're safe So I wrote a affairs that adapted the Corps of Engineers' account of at-risk levees into a simple searchable abstracts base. in the aforementioned baiter as New Orleans Forty-three percent of the American citizenry lives in areas adequate by levees Clearly, beach abortion is not just a busline New Orleans problem, and we have to get the chat out. On Friday, July 18 at 10:30 a.m. actor/producer Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, and Spinal Tap) will accompany Levees.Org, its supporters, and association of the busline association for a photo shoot while antic the new T-shirts.

As a accessible service, Levees.Org has created a searchable abstracts abject so citizens anywhere can acquisition out if they're at accident of calamity by traveling to AreWeAtRisk.org and entering their zip code.

"Are you as safe as you anticipate you are? What happened actuality in New Orleans could appear anywhere, to you," warns Harry Shearer in a public account announcement produced by Levees.Org endure year featuring the brilliant who volunteered his time.

After levees burst and breached during Hurricane Katrina, Congress ordered the US Army Corps of Engineers to audit levees above the United States. In February 2007, the Corps appear a list over 120 levees in 28 states of alleged "maintenance concern."

"I anticipation humans adapted to apperceive whether or not they're safe," says Stanford Rosenthal, 18, webmaster for Levees.Org. "So I wrote a affairs that adapted the Corps of Engineers' account of at-risk levees into a simple searchable abstracts base."

T-shirts can be purchased on area Friday morning for $20. Citizens are acceptable and encouraged to acquirement their bodice in advanced by visiting Dirty Coast, 5704 Magazine Street, Mon-Sat 11-6.

The T-shirt theme, that abounding are "in the aforementioned baiter as New Orleans" is a accommodating venture. After the official barrage and photo shoot on Friday, T-shirts will be priced at $25 and Levees.Org will get $5 for anniversary T-shirt Dirty Coast sells. Tees will be accessible online by 5 p.m. Saturday CST.

"Forty-three percent of the American citizenry lives in areas adequate by levees," says HJ Bosworth, noncombatant architect and advance adviser to Levees.Org. "Clearly, beach abortion is not just a busline New Orleans problem, and we have to get the chat out."

Leeves.Org was founded in November of 2005 by Sandy Rosenthal, 51, and her son Stanford, now 18, while active in Lafayette, Louisiana afterwards evacuating from New Orleans. They alternate to the city-limits and grew the alignment to over 20,000 members. The non accessory group's mission is apprenticeship that busline New Orleans was destroyed not by a accustomed disaster, but by the affliction engineering abortion in the apple back Chernobyl.

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