New Orleans not the only place with levee problems

New Orleans gets all the press and attention and money, but it's not the only place with levee issues. According to this Ocala Star-Banner story, "Herbert Hoover Dike has 50-50 chance of failing within 4 years, engineers' report."

But don't look for this to get national attention. This only affects the less than 100 thousand people that live around Lake Okeechobee in Florida. Who cares about them?

If fact, there was severe damage in that area during hurricane Wilma last year, as there was in other parts of South Florida, but who the hell heard of it. It wasn't New Orleans, or even Miami, after all. (I've posted about it here and here.)

I know people who live in and around Belle Glade who had horrendous damage and drastic changes to their lives, yet not a peep about it in the MSM.

This story won't get any real attention either. Yet peoples lives, property and history are in the balance.