Reply #18: Senator Landrieau seemed to be everywhere as well

[karynnj]

She did a great job forcing some of the media to really see how much beyond a normal hurricane or even the flooding from a levee break elsewhere on the Mississippi this was. She was also working with Senator Kerry within days on the small business refief package. They were working before he even returned from Iraq.

A year later, this morning on This Week, in addition to describing the slowness of the recovery and the need for disaster relief to be better anywhere in the country, she spoke of how the levees weren't repaired as quickly as and that work needed to be done on the coastal erosion. New Orleans was less protected than it had been decades ago because the coastal areas below New Orleans that historically were rebuilt each year from silt from the Mississippi have eroded because the Mississippi was diverted and this silt mostly goes elsewhere. The need for stabalizing that area was known before Katrina and was in fact a major environmental issue for Kerry.