OK, I'll admit that when I began reading Matt's latest post, my first thought was of the old Steve Martin special joke for "plumbing convention attendees."
But Matt, who prefaces with fair warning that most of the text is aimed at engineers, comes to a conclusion any lay person can understand: pipes installed in/with the new pumps in New Orleans are too thin for even normal operating pressures expected. And burst pipes=pump failure.
This is NOT a natural disaster in the making: it's a manufactured disaster...just like the one in August and September of 2005.
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