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When the Levee Breaks
Growing up in Michigan I never understood what a levee was…or what Robert Plant was saying when Led Zeppelin’s When the Levee Breaks came on Detroit radio I know I wasn’t thinking about the 1600 miles of levees throughout Northern California or about the 34 levee breaks that happened in the last 25 years along those miles. Or that a name like Katrina would be embedded in our lives.
After calling Sacramento home for years now I know what a levee is thank you very much…but after seeing the horrific video of displaced people and a flooded New Orleans… I think we all viscerally understand the lyrics “If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break, when the levee breaks, I’ll have no place to stay.”
Yep, I get it.
And it appears the liberals do too. Whether it’s bashing the President over slow FEMA response, or Barbara Boxer’s and Nancy Pelosi’s newly found wedge issue to fix the levees of the Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta, it’s clear the bad guys are shamelessly using Hurricane Katrina to our detriment.
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