Re:China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets r...
by tim333 on Sunday February 02, 2020 @06:21PM
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I remember watching the New Orleans breach in TV in Ireland where I was at the time and it was a bit odd - the only US news we had pretty much was CNN and that had been going on about the levys being likely to be breached about every 20 mins for the 24 to 48 hours previously. And then they breached. And then the president came on saying no one could have predicted they would be breached. Which was odd - I guess no one unless they'd turned on TV anywhere on the planet...
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Re:China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets r...
by jcranmer on Monday February 03, 2020 @12:24AM
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Pedantically, Bush may have actually been correct: the levees failed by collapsing under the water load, whereas the concern was entirely on failing by being overtopped. In colloquial terms, people will use the term "breach" to refer to both failure modes, but these failure modes are actually quite different, and apparently the Army Corps of Engineers reserved "breach" to mean only the first one.
On the other hand, I'm not really willing to give Bush much credit here. The middle of a disaster is not the right time for pedantry.